We Will Miss This Later
We might ought to cherish mornings like this. Come June, July, August and much of Sptember, we will awaken to plenty of high humidity, perspiration (sometimes called sweat) running down your body and heat that should be against the law. With that in mind, here are lows around Alabama this morning:
40 at Horseshoe Bend
41 in DeSoto State Park
42 in Troy
43 in Evergreen, Talladega and Heflin (Thanks to Steve Jones for Heflin report)
44 at Black Creek*, Dearmanville and Wadley
45 at Cullman and Alexander City
46 at Montgomery, Pinson, Fort Payne, Clanton and Russell Cave
47 at Owens Crossroads
48 at Anniston Airport, Dothan, Tuscaloosa, Crossville, Alabaster (Navajo Pines) Childersburg, Collinsville, Scottsboro, Hanceville
49 at Livingston and Moulton
50 at Decatur, Mobile, Bankhead National Forest, Meridianville, Fort Payne, Shelby County Airport (BHM NWS)
51 at Russellville
53 at Huntsville, Muscle Shoals
54 at Birmingham, Union Grove, Mt. Cheaha (Skycam)
55 at Crossville, Guntersville
58 on the beach at Gulf Shores (Skycam)
REGIONAL
26 at Jefferson, N.C
28 atop Mt. Mitchell, N.C
30 at Boone, N.C.
34 at Beech Mountain, N.C.
NATIONAL
23 at Stanley, Idaho in the Sawtooth Mountains
*MORE ABOUT BLACK CREEK
Vic Bell, the 33/40 weatherwatcher, reports that his low of 44 occurred at 5:16 am, but the temperature rose 8 degrees in the next 36 minutes despite the wind remaining nearly calm. Vic, I feel sure that some mixing occurred during that time. While it did stay calm, or nearly so, at the thermometer’s 6-foot level, some more drainage off the slopes around your place could easily have kicked the wind up to 5 or 6 mph say 10 or 15 feet off the ground. That stirring could cause just enough mixing. I have seen that happen at Birmingham Airport on still clear nights with a light NE drainage wind. Sometimes, the temperature would go up 4 or 5 degrees for seemingly no reason. Vic lives in an interesting location in NE Etowah County. His location is on Lookout Mountain but still in sort of a valley or depression. Black Creek has probably had frost on more mornings than Valley Head this past winter and spring!
UPDATED RAIN SHORTFALL SINCE YOU YELLED HAPPY NEW YEAR
13.05 inches at Huntsville
12.30 at Birmingham Airport
9.60 at Montgomery
11.40 at Mobile
So, Huntsville and Birmingham now over one-foot short. That is extremely serious since 2007 is only 17 weeks old.
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