Anyone who knows me knows what a huge football fan I am, and I got to go to Lexington, KY this past weekend to see Mississippi State take on Kentucky. Lucky for us, the same weather I left behind on … Continue reading →

These don’t match the pictures from Yosemite or the Blue Ridge Parkway, but the fall colors are really picking up in Alabama, too! I took these pictures the last two weekends on the Warrior River. Also, last evening around 9:00 … Continue reading →

Check out this radar loop from Memphis Tuesday afternoon, which was brought to my attention by Dr. Kevin Knupp at UAH. It looks like the center of the low was just west of Memphis, with some type of waves rotating … Continue reading →

The weather has really changed over the past few days. We’ve finally gotten some much-needed rainfall, and cool air has come in. Take a look at a graph of temperatures at the Birmingham airport, going back to 8 am Sunday. … Continue reading →

I was not working on the blog tonight…I was asleep until I heard a crash outside…sounded like a tree or large limb going down here in Trussville. Can’t see anything close by. After looking at radar, I see a bow … Continue reading →

Radar early this morning (before 100 am) showed rain moving northward into south Alabama, and this rain should spread northward today and increase, as an upper level storm approaches from the west. Rain chances will stay high at least through … Continue reading →

MAJOR CHANGES TO THE WEATHER The computer models are in general agreement that a powerful upper-level trough will move east on Monday, then maybe cut off, or separate itself from the progressive flow and slow down. Southerly flow ahead of … Continue reading →

Storms have really increased in coverage and intensity over the past couple of hours, with a line of severe storms currently just ahead of the cold front, from Louisville, Kentucky to Oxford, MS into extreme NE Louisiana. Sometimes, after dark … Continue reading →

Tornado Warning continues for Tuscaloosa County. Not good news for Tuscaloosa…it appears an atmospheric gravity wave recently intersected this storm, possibly intensifying the rotation. This is a dangerous storm. We also need to keep an eye on the storm developing … Continue reading →

With sunshine and warm, humid air being transported in from the Gulf of Mexico, the air has become unstable over Alabama this afternoon, with instability increasing from east to west. Also, a very well-defined area of enhanced convergence has been … Continue reading →