Afternoon Alabama Weather Update

Skies are partly cloudy this afternoon across Central and North Alabama. It took a while for the low clouds and fog to burn off this morning across the area. The SEC Baseball Tournament game between LSU and Florida last night at the Hoover Met had to be suspended because of the dense fog. You literally could not see the field from the stands.

Temperatures are in the lower and middle 80s.

Showers and storms are over West Central Alabama’s Clarke and Marengo Counties. An areal flood advisory is in effect for parts of Marengo County. Plenty of lightning and heavy rain with those. The HRRR hints that these will work northward over the next few hours, but the general motion of the storms seems to be to the southeast to me.

Showers are over parts of Northwest and Northeast Alabama, including Marion, Franklin and Lawrence Counties and Jackson and DeKalb Counties. No lightning in those yet.

The outermost convergence bands around the low pressure system that is Subtropical Storm Alberto may trigger a band of showers and storms that rotates northward later this afternoon and tonight. These showers and storms could reach I-59 before they dissipate around 11 p.m. or so. It looks like the best rain chances will be west of I-65 this afternoon and evening.

It should be calm overnight after those showers and storms dissipate. Lows will be in the middle and upper 60s.

Tomorrow will feature partly cloudy skies. A more extensive band of rain will rotate northward during the day tomorrow.

Strong storms are affecting the Gulf Coast. There is satellite evidence that they are being caused by convergence zones around the circulation of Alberto.

Wind and rain will begin to spread onto the Gulf Coast on Sunday and into Central Alabama on Monday as Alberto moves toward a landfall between Mobile and the western Florida Panhandle.

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