With the cold air pouring into Alabama tonight, some low-level moisture, and an upper-level disturbance to the north, a few snow flurries and showers have been reported over Tennessee tonight, and a few of these may make it into NE … Continue reading →

Please scroll down and check out James’ post about the International Space Station flying overhead tonight. Just a quick graph of GFS forecast surface temps over the next 5 days, which look like a pretty good chart. Wow. More cold … Continue reading →

These were sent to me by Andy Kula, a forecaster at the National Weather Service office in HSV. They weren’t today…some time earlier this fall.

As James and I have been talking about all week, the cold air coming in over the next week or so looks pretty intense…with multiple models in agreement. We have already had numerous periods of cold air, since September, and … Continue reading →

Jason Simpson alerted me to the possibility of a gravity wave in an email, and after doing some quick analysis, it looks like there is one over Mississippi. Rapidly descending air in the trough of the wave warms the lower … Continue reading →

It looks like plenty of cold air will pour into Alabama starting this weekend, and hang around for at least a week to 10 days, continuing our colder-than-normal pattern. A strong cold front will come in late Friday, with some … Continue reading →

Here is a video I put together from my ride aboard a towboat, the M/V Tim Parker, on Tuesday. It includes fascinating stuff and interviews with some of the crew.

Thanks to Brian and I chasing down a towboat on a fishing trip in October, and one of Brian’s excellent pictures appearing on this blog, people at Parker Towing Company in Tuscaloosa seeing it, and thanks to several nice people … Continue reading →

I had a good time speaking today to Cub Scout pack 532, den 5, at Helena United Methodist Church. We talked about the weather, the water cycle, and other things that help us forecast the weather. They will set up … Continue reading →