Author Archives: AWXVTEC FEED
Time lapse of tornado photos
This is a time lapse of videos taken from VAST camera 0, a light-enhanced camera on the east side of NSSTC, the building where the UAH Atmospheric Science Department is located. The first picture is SE toward I-565 and Sparkman … Continue reading
Tornado view from NSSTC
This is a picture of the supercell storm and tornado at 5:29 pm CST, taken from a VAST camera on the roof of the NSSTC, the building where UAH Atmospheric Science is. Thanks go out to NOAA/THOR for the funding … Continue reading
AMS Annual Meeting Trip
Click here for presentation. Allow 2-5 min for download. Be sure to turn on your speakers. Click here for presentation. Brian Peters and I attended the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society in Atlanta yesterday. I was giving two … Continue reading
Final Review of Cold Outbreak
This table shows the 20 previously coldest 7-, 10-, and 14-day periods in BHM, according to average daily temperature, with overlapping periods removed (raw data from Office of Alabama State Climatologist). Clearly, the recent cold wave was one of our … Continue reading
Warrior River Scenery
I was working very early Monday morning on a project and grading papers, when I realized that the wind had gone calm and we were finally having a radiational cooling night. It was 15 at BHM at 3 am, and … Continue reading
Historic Cold Wave – Initial Report
(Saturday morning lows, courtesy MesoWest) I say initial because it is not really over yet. Temperatures this week will continue to be below normal, and we have one final, weak cold front that will come through tomorrow before we can … Continue reading
Florida snow, cold
(WFTV, Orlando, FL) There has been snow and sleet in parts of cenral Florida this morning, and it is currently 33 degrees at 2 pm EST near Winter Haven, FL! Check out these forecast discussions: AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER … Continue reading
Cold
2 am temps, courtesy Mesowest Its not often that you see widespread temperatures in the teens across most of Alabama, as far south as Jackson. The coldest spot on this windy early morning was Mt. Cheaha, with 12 degrees. Mid … Continue reading
Snow showers, bitter cold
Due to an upper-level disturbance rotating around the big cold upper trough to our north, a little residual moisture, and, oddly, our air being a little bit unstable (the air at 2,500 ft. is 12 degrees, while the air at … Continue reading
Snow Flurries
We’ve got flurries this morning in the Birmingham area! There may be flurries in a lot of other spots that we can’t see with the radar, so don’t be surprised if you see some flakes for the next few hours. … Continue reading
