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Afternoon Update

| August 3, 2014 @ 2:54 pm

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AFTERNOON UPDATE: Several features of interest this afternoon on the GR Earth map.

…The cumulus field is decent across Central Alabama. It is thinner to the north, where moisture levels are lower and to the south, where morning clouds kept down the heating.

…A few showers had formed in some of the same areas as yesterday. The heaviest was between Vernon and Belk in Lamar county, with others straddling the line between Marion and Lamar Counties. Others were trying to form over southern Winston and northern Walker Counties. Another was over the City of Tuscaloosa. Everything was drifting slowly southeast. Storms will rain themselves out pretty quickly since there is little wind shear.

…Temperatures across Central Alabama were in the upper 80s generally. Birmingham did touch 90F briefly.

…Tropical Storm Bertha is 689 miles south of Birmingham at this hour. It has turned northwestward and will begin to recurve to the north and northeast tonight and Monday. It is no threat to land. Top winds are still 45 mph but some modest strengthening is expected and it will stop just short of becoming a hurricane.

Category: Alabama's Weather

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