Another thwarted meeting... doggone tanker

Well, I was scheduled to meet with the acting EM this morning, and, sadly, when I arrived there, he was in heavy duty alert status for a situation involving a tanker flipping in the neighboring county. Apparently, whatever the tanker contained was not a safe thing, and the county it occurred in wasn't equipped for dealing with the situation. Our meeting has been rescheduled for this afternoon, so we'll see what happens. I have many ideas to present to him and a lot of questions regarding emergency management in our county. I'll update after that meeting.

For here... well, let's see... yesterday, it was so nice to smell that unfamiliar (cause it's been so doggone long) yet distinct smell of barely wet warmed asphalt as we got our millionth of an inch yesterday... the bulk of it, of course, went well to our south, but they needed it, too. The SPC has put most of AL and portions of GA under a slight risk for severe weather... of course, not this part of GA, but to the north and west of here.... but we should get some much needed rain from all of this... we are actually showing a 2% chance for tornadoes here... At best, they will be isolated. According to our HWO: A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE REGION FROM THE WEST THIS AFTERNOON...WITH A NARROW BAND OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF THIS FRONT. (A squall line... fabulous...) DAYTIME HEATING AND INCREASING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL HELP DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE THIS AFTERNOON AS A WARM FRONT MOVES NORTH ACROSS THE REGION. THIS INCREASED INSTABILITY WILL HELP GENERATE SOME FAIRLY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS UPDRAFTS... AND THE INCREASING WIND SPEEDS WITH HEIGHT WILL HELP THESE UPDRAFTS ROTATE... ENHANCING THE THREAT FOR SEVERE STORMS. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FOR OUR AREA BE ACROSS SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON... ESPECIALLY AFTER 1 PM CDT (2 PM EDT). PENNY SIZE HAIL OR GREATER AND WIND GUSTS NEAR 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS... BUT AN ISOLATED TORNADO CAN NOT BE RULED OUT. THERE IS SOME QUESTION AS TO WHETHER THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL EXTEND SOUTH INTO FLORIDA... AND HOW FAR EAST THE STORMS WILL REACH BEFORE WEAKENING AFTER SUNSET. STILL... A FEW STORMS COULD BE STRONG TO SEVERE IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND. So to the west of here it appears, in fact, spotters are activated there... but I'll monitor things... We shall see. A cold front from the west, warm front from the south... It all depends on where the cold and warm fronts collide... sort of reminds me of this past Christmas when they had the tornadoes pass through Lake City... Unfortunately, with the system's scattered nature, we may or may not get the intense rain we need out of it to help alleviate the moderate drought and fire dangers... It remains to be seen. This is the 11:00 view.

Almost forgot to mention, feel free to stop by our team blog as we have updated it with some introductions from the team... Woohoo! We are live!

Have a great day... be safe.
~Dewdrop