Pictures from the Warrior River

These don’t match the pictures from Yosemite or the Blue Ridge Parkway, but the fall colors are really picking up in Alabama, too! I took these pictures the last two weekends on the Warrior River.

Also, last evening around 9:00 pm, a very light north background wind, perhaps enhanced by cold air draining downhill from the north, east, and west, produced a surprisingly rapid development and movement of fog out of Bluff Creek into the river. With a water temp of 71, an air temp of 49, and dewpoint around 47, a miniature “lake effect” was set up, I guess. We have actually had lake effect snow in Alabama before, during arctic outbreaks with a strong wind, the wind can channel down a large lake (like Wheeler or Guntersville) and produce snow at the leeward end of the lake.

(Blue arrows indicate cold air draining downhill toward water, white arrow indicates foggy wind)

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