40 I was smart, and I brought my
umbrella with me this morning,
just knowing I was not going to
get caught in the rain today.
Yeah, most definitely.
I got the rain jacket in the back of the car.
You know I got PTSD from oh man, listen,
you go on that raid one time and
forget your rain jacket or umbrella.
You will learn. Yes,
you know. And I remember I remember
that day because I was at Kroger
that day and I brought my umbrella.
But a lot of people did it and man did
the bottom fall out of a thunderstorm.
Yes, and it lasted a while
to that day it it did.
These are gonna be a little quicker.
All the rain and storms on the way today but.
We also are going to be watching for
that potential for severe weather today,
so as storms are rolling through,
you probably don't want to be making
your way out and about unless you
have to through them, just in case,
because there will be that potential
that severe Thunder storms will be around
as you're making your way through your
morning and also into the early afternoon.
So here's a look at the severe threat
from the Storm Prediction Center.
You can see most of the area under
some sort of severe threat level,
one of five for making off to the northwest,
and then, if you're South and east of Macon,
you're in that level.
Two of five threat, which is
indicated by that yellow color there.
So what are we looking at today?
Most widespread threat?
Well,
most of us will experience if
you do experience thunderstorm
activity is going to be damaging.
Wind gusts and heavy rain
and any strong storms.
We're looking 40 to 50 mile per hour.
Wind gusts and anything severe that
warrants for wind gusts upwards of 60 mph.
Now.
Unfortunately we also are going to be
looking towards the potential for maybe a
brief spin up tornado and some small hail.
The timing between around 8:00
o'clock this morning and 4:00 PM.
I do think the late morning.
Into around the lunch hour is going
to be our main time frame and
I'm going to explain why here in
just the next couple of minutes.
Lots to cover.
Right now we're mainly quiet just a
couple of showers starting to push
in from the West and parts of Upson,
Taylor and Crawford County.
Most of the rain and storm activity
up towards the Metro Atlanta area.
It's all along a cold front that is
continuing to push through the southeast.
This the same one that was stalled
to our South.
Now reorienting itself and then it's
just going to pay us another visit,
but this time it is going to bring us
that potential for severe weather.
Haven't seen anything severe up in
Northwest Georgia. Really severe weather.
I've been seeing a tornado warning
in the Panhandle of Florida and then
this little cell right here that
is just north of the Dothan area
that had a tornado warning on it.
And it is still rotating just a little bit.
So we are going to continue to track
that as it moves over the Alabama
and Georgia Line this morning.
Hopefully everything can kind of
start to fall apart right now.
Our ingredients for severe weather
aren't all put together.
That's definitely more out to
our West where we're obviously
experiencing that potential for
severe weather this morning.
But as we head through the later
morning hours, this front gets closer.
This area of low pressure we
talked about with that does.
A little more spin,
a little more lift closer to
this as that moves closer to the
area that's ultimately going to
increase our potential or all of
our ingredients to come together
for severe storms by around 8:00
o'clock in the morning we'll be
watching for any of these isolated
cells to see if they start to spin.
The high res model keeps what
I think is the most concerning
weather down to our South.
There are better ingredients South of the
area for an organized severe threat today,
but nonetheless we still have one now.
The high resolution model shows
something different than the graph,
which is what I'm going to show you next.
It indicates that we'll have
another flare up as we head
towards 4:00 o'clock at this point.
We have enough wind shear and
we definitely have the fuel,
so I think that would prolong our severe
threat into the four o'clock hour.
The graph model brings our severe
threat to an end a little bit earlier,
so both of these are solution.
Just stay weather aware as
we go through the day today.
Have a way to receive weather warnings
as we head towards 6-7 o'clock.
All the rain and storms out to
our West will push into the area.
Here are the little cells we're
going to be watching as we go
through the morning hours to see
if they take advantage of that
wind shear and start to spin again.
I think our more widespread
threat is going to be that heavy
rain and gusty wind now notice.
By the afternoon, it's the early evening.
What the high res showed.
The graph doesn't show at all and
keeps any kind of more concerning
thunderstorm activity down to our South.
So for the day today,
I do think our best time frame is going
to be that late morning into the lunch hour,
but we could potentially prolong
our severe threat into the early
afternoon if that low pressure center
continues to stay through the area.
That's really what we're going to be.
Watching.
Rain is not going to go away until
really Saturday late morning.
And then we'll finally be cold
and dry by Sunday.
But today again, stay weather aware.
Have a way to receive weather warnings.