It’s almost summertime, and I finally got a chance to come back and visit all my friends at 11Alive. And what’s summertime without my dad and Backyard Weather?
Dad brought me to this year’s first BW, which is right here at 11Alive. There’s Dad with the guys who are working the grill. They have chicken, pork, and [...]
The "unofficial start to summer" is this weekend! This is our long holiday weekend with Memorial Day! I encourage you not to focus just on the extra day to play...but I hope you will take a moment to remember and honor those who died fighting for our country.
You will have to dodge some showers for your outdoor activities. There is a stubborn low in the gulf that will slowly move to the northwest. That low will continue pumping Gulf and Atlantic moisture our way through the weekend. It isn't going to rain all day everyday...but there will be sporadic showers off and on through the weekend. There will be some dry hours in-between some of those periods with rain.
Rain totals will be around an inch or more between now and Monday. We aren't looking for a widespread severe weather event...just be aware that some of these showers may have some embedded thunder and lightning in association with them.
If you are headed to the Gulf coast for the weekend, you see see even more rain that we will here in metro Atlanta. The low will also cause some wind and rough surf on the Gulf coast of Florida, Alabama and Mississippi and Atlantic coast of Georgia and South Carolina.
I'll be here with you all weekend and the beginning of next week tracking these showers!
Did you feel it yesterday? The 80s are back! We had a high yesterday of 81 degrees. This isn't the first time this year we've hit the 80s. Back on March 9 and 10 we got up to 80. This warm spell will be a little hotter and it will last a little longer than the one in March.
Today, we'll get up to 85 degrees! Our average high for this time of year is 75...so we'll be about 10 degrees above normal. The record for today's date is 91...we won't hit that! Get used to the hotter air. We'll hit 85 again Saturday with mostly sunny skies. Sunday, we'll move back to the lower 80s.
Those storms last night were pretty fierce in some areas. We had numerous severe thunderstorm warnings. The main threat last night was the hail and vivid lightning. We also had some gusty winds that took out some trees.
We are entering a quieter pattern now. We can't rule out an isolated shower late tomorrow with the heat and humidity mixing. Most areas will stay dry and calm for the weekend. Break out the sunscreen!!
Thunderstorms are developing back into west Alabama this afternoon producing severe weather. That line will continue to move east toward Georgia.
Late in the afternoon and into the evening, the strongest part of the storm system will move in giving us a better chance of thunderstorms. The storm prediction center has fine tuned the risk areas for severe weather. Residents in west Georgia, along the Alabama line will have a little better chance of seeing some isolated severe thunderstorms as we get into the evening hours.
There is a tornado watch for parts of west and central Alabama. Our atmosphere is becoming a little more unstable with some breaks in the clouds allow a few peeks of sunshine. Some of these storms will weaken as we lose some heating this evening.
As the main line of storms comes in later today and tonight, we will have a better coverage of rain. There will be a few thunderstorms that will get close to severe limits. The main threats will be damaging winds and small hail. Rainfall amounts will be between a half inch and an inch of rain in the metro area.
I got stuff! Check out the swag the kids from AMCA in Alpharetta sent me: dog biscuits and tennis balls, and even better, enough to share with Mandy (my sister, who you may have heard of).
Now that the weather’s getting warmer, it’s more fun to do stuff outside, and last night I got to be [...]
