Mid Evening Check on Alabama Weather….

It is impossible to miss the circulation of tropical depression Gustav tonight. Use your surface observations, surface map, satellite picture or radar, and the circulation is very evident still.

Centered near Texarkana, Arkansas. Or Texas. Take your pick. At the Texarkana Regional Airport, they were reporting Heavy Rain and ENE winds at 7 mph. The pressure was 995 milibars.

The depression has been moving NNW at 8 mph, but it appears to be nearly stationary late tongiht.

It is dumping heavy rains over a wide area of southern Arkansas back into Central Louisiana. Tornado warnings continue across the main band from south of Alexandria through Marksville and up into Catahoula Parish.

Over Alabama, we are still seeing the extreme outer bands of Gustav across Southwest Alabama. A narrow but fairly solid line of storms curves from Sumter County through Marengo, Wilcox, northern Monroe and Conecuh Counties then back into the Florida Panhandle.

It is a warm and humid night across Alabama. Temperaures are falling back into the 70s. Dewpoints are near 70. Winds are out of the east at 7-14 mph. Rainfall should be limited to southwestern sections.

Tomorrow should be partly sunny and warm with only a small chance of a shower.

I will be back with a look at the parade of tropical systems we will be tracking over the next two weeks…Hanna…Ike…Josephine and a system that has not even been conceived yet. It’s going to busy in the tropics…

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