It was a hot and humid day. You could tell what lay ahead as the sun rose behind the trees...all orange and big and flaming! Before noon, the bank thermometer downtown hit 102 degrees F. Record highs were crippling air conditioning systems all across town. Flowers wilted on a street corner despite a misty spray that battled to satisfy their thirst. Then, just before supper, thunder boomed, a breeze blew, and precious rain fell in sheets, giving the dog reason to rise from her spot in the garage and move away from the storm. Houses and tempers are much cooler tonight! 
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Relief!
It was a hot and humid day. You could tell what lay ahead as the sun rose behind the trees...all orange and big and flaming! Before noon, the bank thermometer downtown hit 102 degrees F. Record highs were crippling air conditioning systems all across town. Flowers wilted on a street corner despite a misty spray that battled to satisfy their thirst. Then, just before supper, thunder boomed, a breeze blew, and precious rain fell in sheets, giving the dog reason to rise from her spot in the garage and move away from the storm. Houses and tempers are much cooler tonight! 
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Great collection of photos. Wow..102F is just a little too hot and way too hot for school to be starting!!
Thanks for visiting my NorthBayPhoto blog. Later on, I'll try to post a few photos of the lake on campus.
Enjoy it! Were you able to catch some water in barrels to save for your garden?
Hey, the forecasters say Alabama had all-time record highs yesterday with 105 degrees being the highest-ever previously recorded temp. But it hit 107 in Tuscaloosa and 106 in Montgomery. I'm not sure what the official temp was here, but it was hot!
Z, I should have had barrels waiting, but the rain came up so fast I didn't even think about it! I had sprinklers going in the yard yesterday, and somehow that seems to bring rain! Now, fireant beds have popped up everywhere, so gotta go get rid of 'em.
We were walking around this morning and it was torching hot. Fortunately the humidity was 47% which is low or at least mild. We should all get together and try to push this high pressure system out to sea. Any sea.
--steve buser
New Orleans Daily Photo
I remember that it rained every day at 4 p.m. years ago in Southeast Alabama (when I lived there). It must not do that everyday in Selma, right?
Hi Steve and Annie.
Steve, humidity was 20-something percent here today, so with 106-degree temps (a new record), the index was ONLY 107! Apparently, the hottest ever here has been 108 degrees back in 1954. The hottest-ever temps differ in the newspaper and the Internet weather records.
Annie, no it doesn't rain everyday here. But we have had a few summers when it almost did! South Alabama does get more rain, probably since it is closer to the Gulf of Mexico. I know that most every time we would go to the beach, we would hit really hard off-and-on showers about Greenville. The showers usually develop in the Gulf then head north and get here by evening if they last that long.
I'm back to reply. I lived in Enterprise, home of the boll weevil monument, while my husband trained to fly helicopters.
So glad it rained - it is amazing how the drop in humidity eases the tension!!!!
Hello all. Well, the temp today was 105F. Our house was 80 degrees by mid-afternoon with more triple-digit temps expected all week. So, this is by far the worst heat wave I can ever remember! We went to church tonight and really soaked up the cooler air there!
Annie, I should have realized you had lived in Enterprise! I remember your good info about the boll weevil monument. Maybe I will go down and see it some day.
Great way to show hot and rain! how do you do that with 4 in a photo? NOt being that computer literate...I am very impressed.
Hi Neva. I did the four photos with Google's Picasa 2 photo editing program. You can download it from Google for free! It is very easy to use.
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