Quick Check on Tropics…and Alabama Update

DOLLY
Tropcal storm Dolly is heading toward the Yucatan. 165 miles from Cozumel. Top winds 45 mph. May strengthen some tongith before making landfall. Will cross Yucatan tonight and tomorrow morning and emerge over southern Gulf on west northwest or northwest track that will take it into Mexico or to around Brownsville, Texas sometime Wednesday. Could be hurricane by then. No real threat to move northward.

CRISTOBAL
Tropical storm Cristobal is about 40 miles SSW of Cape Hatteras. Moving NE at 8 mph. Will pass just south of the Cape tonight heading out to sea. Top winds 45 mph. May intensify to strong tropical storm tomorrow.

BERTHA
Became extratropical late this morning as it races northeast toward Iceland.

WAY OFF OVER AFRICA
A strong disturbance is getting ready to emerge. There is a good chance it will become a tropical depression this week as it makes the long journey across the Atlantic.

ALABAMA UPDATE…4:55 PM
Radar shows a cluster of storms over Northeast Alabama, just as the models hinted. Woohoo! Even a blind squirrel gets a nut sometimes, right? They are mainly over Jackson and DeKalb Counties moving southward. Could brush Gadsden and a good chance they will make Anniston and Oxford.

Another isolated storm was forming south of Tuscaoosa. A few more isolated storms may pop up through the evening hours.

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