Author Archives: AWXVTEC FEED
Smoke from ground and satellite
Yesterday afternoon, there was a rather large fire about 3 miles NW of our cabin on The Warrior River. The wind, for a while, blew the smoke SE towards us (for asthma reasons, we had to put on allergy masks … Continue reading
Gravity wave, inflow jet
James wanted to know if I would comment on a strange radar echo in Walker and Tuscaloosa Counties near the end of the above loop. Notice the drying of the rain. This is due to a rapidly descending rear inflow … Continue reading
Thunderstorms, gravity wave
Area of thunderstorms in west Alabama has weakened a little more, but the outflow boundary produced by the storms has interacted with the nighttime cool layer near the surface and produced a nice gravity wave feature known as a “bore” … Continue reading
Red sky at morning…
First of all, see James’ post below with all of the pictures of the red sunrise this morning. You’ve probably heard the phrase “Red sky at morning, sailors take warning; red sky at night, sailor’s delight”. Did you know that … Continue reading
Wild temperatures continue
What a roller coaster ride! On Monday, Sep 20, it was 99 degrees in BHM. High temperatures stayed in the mid 90s all week, then the sudden change came over the weekend, when the first of two cold fronts droped … Continue reading
Race for the cure, voicemail from Riley
The annual “Race for the Cure”, to generate money and awareness for breast cancer, research, and screening, was held this morning in Linn Park. Go to their website here https://komenncalabama.org/race-information.php. My beautiful wife Jennifer’s (right in picture) company, Proassurance, had about … Continue reading
Subtropical Depression #17 Is Born
At 4 AM CDT, the National Hurricane Center designated the region of disturbed weather north of Puerto Rico as “Subtropical Depression Seventeen.” A “subtropical depression” is an area of low pressure over water that has some tropical and some non-tropical … Continue reading
UAH professor becomes fellow of AMS
Dr. Kevin Knupp, a professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, was recently named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. This is a tremendous honor, as only 1 out of every 500 AMS members is elected … Continue reading
It keeps getting cooler
With low pressure areas along the east coast causing northerly winds over Alabama, and another cold front coming through this weekend, it will keep on getting cooler, with a few people’s furnaces maybe kicking on early next week. Boy, it’s … Continue reading
Cherokee County Sunrise
Beautiful sunrise shot from Skywatcher Vic Bell via Twitter this morning. He is in a small spot in western Cherokee County known to the locals as “Lizard Lope;” it’s south of Collinsville. There are a few isolated pockets of light … Continue reading
