Late Afternoon in Alabama
All the biggies had pushed down into South Alabama late this afternoon. Biggies means the worst, meanest, ugliest thunderstorms.
It was raining by the buckets in areas south of Montgomery and especially south of Monroeville.
The storms were moving east, maybe a little more ESE.
Virtually no showers over the north half of the state.
But painfully, we twist our neck around and face NW and we see three Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma and another family of thunderstorms advancing eastward. Based on recent weather patterns, those thunderstorms will make a gradual turn to the right to head toward one of their favorite states. That means us!!
Hours away however but thunderstorms will become numerous again tomorrow here in Alabama.
A few rain amounts so far today:
0.70 Tuscaloosa Skycam
1.39 Inverness Skycam
1.60 Concord/Hueytown
1.23 Hoover/Rocky Ridge
1.48 Samantha
2.60 Muscle Shoals
We will post more amounts later
July 16th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
We got robbed!! 0.05 was all we could squeeze out in Pelham (we’re “nestled” between Oak Mt and Weatherly)….I hope we have better luck tomorrow!!
July 16th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Wow Lori. You should feel fortunate. I got precisely six and one half drops in Alabaster. Blows my mind. All summmer, I watch the radar, and here it comes! Then, nothing. Zippo. Thunder. Dark clouds. No rain. I’m off to work for 24 hours starting tomorrow. I looked at the NWS forecast of “70% chance of heavy rain tonight and tomorrow”. Just got through watering the fresh plants that I placed in the ground a couple of days ago. That’s how much faith I have in that. It won’t rain more than six more drops here!
July 16th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
On the radar there is another big bunch of storms in Arkansas coming our way and the satelite loop shows clouds coming out of the Gulf. As JB said, should be interesting. PS – it wasnt bill gates but steven jobs. Sorry about that – i am fighting a summer cold.
July 16th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Wondering if those storms back in Arkansas will affect us here in Northwest Al.?
July 16th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
NWS-FFC(ATL) forecasted today 80% chance of heavy rain all day here in the Marietta area. Actual weather today 100% total sunshine with not too many clouds around. I know forecasting weather is a tough job because Mother Nature will sometimes throw the weather guys a curve ball here and there. But calling for 80% change of heavy rain and having just a speck of a very small shower here and there on radar at any given time, all south of here, would qualify as a BIG MISS! We have a 50% chance of rain tonight. I think that area of storms right now in ARK. will probably sink south of us or die out before getting this far east.
They are forecasting 70% chance of heavy rain for tomorrow. Hope they have better luck tomorrow.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
big mass of storms rocking across west mississippi…a few individual cells out ahead near columbus..one has a Severe warning for it…Looks like a all niter
July 17th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Put me in the group with Lori and kware- we got about 1/10th of on inch in the western part of Hoover. The amazing dry shield extends over my house as well. Last Sunday, I watched storms go north and south of me all day long. No rain at all until Sunday night.