Alabama thread!

33°11'43.7"N 86°03'47.9"W
AL-148, Talladega, AL 35160
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Trailhead of 600-1 but meet at Jack's sometimes.

 

Talladega, Sylacauga, or Munford Jack’s?

 

911 N Broadway Ave, Sylacauga, AL 35150

I think? It's been awhile

 

Evenin fellas

 

Get to work!

 

Hope everyone is doing alright tonight.

 

Sup Don
Why? They don't pay me more for that

Sup Paul

 

Eh, a whole lot of nothing as usual lol

 

Sylacauga

 

Sup Bart

 

Trying to get my mind right for this crazy day I’m about to have.

 

I'm starting to wind it down I'm so done with this week. I feel like I might catch something today and need to call out tonight

 

I’m over it too. Been longer and busier than I thought it would be. Glad it’s Wednesday!!! Just get through today and to 2 pm Thursday and I’m done for week.

 

No doubt

 

How is it only Wednesday, i feel like its the 9th day this week lol

 

Morning

From AlabamaWX

Wednesday… The Calm Before the Storms



2020 Ends & 2021 Begins on a Stormy Note
New Year’s Eve will actually start off dry during the morning hours, but scattered showers will begin to build throughout the late morning and into the afternoon. For now, the heavier rain and thunderstorms will begin to move into the area from the southwest during the evening and late-night hours. At that time, a few storms may become strong to severe.

The latest update from the SPC has the southwestern quarter of Central Alabama in a level 2 Slight Risk for severe storms, including locations west of a line from Reform to Brookwood to Billingsley to Fort Deposit. A level 1 Marginal Risk stretches outside of that and includes locations west of a line from Russellville to Falkville to Steele to Tuskegee to Clio.

For now, the timing for the potential for severe storms looks to start around 9:00 pm Thursday night and persist until at least 8:00 am on Friday morning. Damaging winds up to 60 mph and a few tornadoes will be possible in those risk areas. To go along with that, pressure gradient winds may gust as high as 35-40 MPH, so a Wind Advisory may be issued at some point before the storms get fired up on Thursday.



As I mentioned on Tuesday, this appears to be a low instability/high shear event, but with these wintertime systems, it does not take that much instability to get severe storms started. There will be plenty of wind shear in place, and models are showing a good bit of helicity, so there will be the potential for some rotating updrafts.

Locations in the western parts of the area will start to dry out before midday on Friday as the activity continues to march eastward, and eventually leaving the state by Friday evening. We do note that the SPC has the southeastern parts of Central Alabama in a Marginal Risk on Friday. Highs will be in the lower 60s to the lower 70s on Thursday and into the upper 60s to the lower 70s on Friday.

The Central Alabama Weekend
Saturday will be a much cooler day with a mix of sun and clouds. Afternoon highs will be in the lower 50s to the lower 60s. Sunday will be even cooler as skies will be mainly sunny with highs in the upper 40s to the upper 50s.

A Nice Start to the First Work Week of 2021
We do start a warming trend on Monday as skies will be mainly sunny with highs reaching the lower 50s to right around 60 degrees across the area from northwest to southeast. And we’ll end off the forecast period with Tuesday as we’ll have a few more clouds move across the area, but there will be more sun than clouds. Highs will be in the mid-50s to the lower 60s.

Today In Weather History
1983: Record cold temperatures once again hit the Gulf States where the temperature at Tupelo, Mississippi was 7 degrees. This was the coldest week on record at Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the coldest December on record at Corpus Christi, Texas. Some areas broke their old temperature records by as much as 12 degrees.

 

What can anyone tell me about riding and camping at Talladega National? I got off work last minute and have the truck and trailer packed down. Would like to ride out to Dega but never been and don't know what to expect of where to enter and how camping is set up off the trails.

Any here that can offer guidance?

 

Going to ride over to 600-2.. And I just remembered it's rifle season so not sure if camping is allowed during this time.

 

Where yall at????

 

Hiding