* All the rain and thunderstorms gone from Alabama. Cooler air now taking charge.
* Well over an inch at Birmingham Airport today. That helped chip away some of our deficiency for 2010 so far. The shortage now is 1.66 inches, 2010 total so far is 15.45
* Tornado Watches in effect this evening all the way from North Florida including Tallahassee area, northward to Virginia. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch for East Pennsylvania and a small part of Southern New York.
USA EXTREMES
High this afternoon 88 at Chesapeake, Williamsburg and Jamestown, Virginia and at Plant City Florida Lows this morning 6 above in heavily snow-covered Yellowstone National Park (home of Yogi Bear) and 18 below at Shishmaref, Alaska.
ALABAMA RAIN AMOUNTS TODAY
1.28 Anniston Airport
1.34 Birmingham Airport
1.35 Shelby County Airport
1.97 Dothan
0.37 Huntsville
0.27 Mobile
0.54 Montgomery/Dannelly Field
0.42 Muscle Shoals
0.69 Troy
0.79 Tuscaloosa Airport
1.27 Pinson
1.57 Crossville
0.41 Fort Payne
0.86 Guntersville
0.71 Scottsboro
0.42 Cullman Airport near Vinemont
1.18 Valley Head
0.38 Bear Creek
1.48 Inverness ( North Shelby)1.75 Scrougeout
REMEMBER IN OUR PRAYERS
It was about this time 12 years ago when a powerful top-of-the-line F5 tornado was destroying several communities in West Jefferson County. I was doing wall-to-wall radio coverage on Magic-96 and WERC and James was wall-to-wall TV coverage on ABC 33/40. (Scroll down and you can see a replay of the 33/40 TV coverage.) 32 fatalities in Jefferson County and two later from another tornado in St. Clair County. Another tragic never-to-be-forgotten event in Alabama weather history. I know that every April 8, people who lost loved ones hurt all over again.
Since all the weather action is now gone from Alabama, this will probably be my last blog update for today. I am semi-short on sleep.
…and tired
…and hungary
