What A Difference a Day Makes!

The USA weatherscape is very much different today as compared to yesterday.

This includes Alabama. At noon, there were no showers in the state. The nearest rain was some showers over the Carolinas moving east.

In fact, if you, like magic, could travel from the Georgia Coast to the Southern California Coast, you would not see a single shower.

Here in Alabama, we are going through a fairly calm time. Any showers the rest of this week should be scarce with only a very small chance for any one address.

Let us all be thankful that Oklahoma is getting a break also. Our hats off to the Storm Prediction Center at Norman, Okla., and NWS Forecast centers at Fort Worth, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Wichita and others for a super job yesterday and last evening. The last warning issued, of any kind, was from Shreveport just before midnight.

In contrast to the Moderate Risk and High Risk that SPC posted yesterday, only a Slight Risk is mentioned today from parts of Oklahoma and Kansas NE and east across Missouri, North Arkansas to near Louisville.

As noon approached, nothing going on anywhere in the tornado devastated areas of yesterday.

Time constraints yesterday prevented my posting the weekly Agriculture/Weather story for Alabama. Will resume next Monday. Just a few items:

* Latest US Drought Monitor released May 6 showed that Alabama was 100% free of drought..It was also 100% three months ago and one year ago. That is great news.

* 86% of the state has adequate top soil moisture, 10% a surplus and only 4% short.

* Overall, cotton and corn crops in good condition.

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