The upper air pattern is becoming a little more active this week. One upper trough should bring cool air to the midwest and increased rain chances to us by Tuesday. The GFS shows another trough late in the week, with … Continue reading →

The system we have all been watching for the past few days in the western Atlantic has finally started to show some organization today. Convection is starting to occur on both sides of the center of low pressure, and developing … Continue reading →

As far as the potential tropical storm Gabrielle in the Atlantic more than 500 miles off the east coast, a U.S. Air Force hurricane hunter aircraft investigated the storm Wednesday afternoon, and found maximum flight-level winds of only 33 knots, … Continue reading →

I caught this picture on Monday afternoon around 2 pm (19 UTC) looking south along the Warrior River from Bluff Creek. Notice the wavy appearance in the clouds…that is being caused by wind shear (wind increasing with height) at the … Continue reading →

Showers and thunderstorms still in progress at 12:20 am CDT in the Birmingham area, with the heaviest rain from near Huffman to Tarrant, and also near Graysville. Rainfall rates in past hour have exceeded 0.25″ inches/15 minutes in some spots. … Continue reading →

Radar at 4:15 pm CDT continues to show the most widespread storms in SW AL. We had some cloud cover this morning in parts of central and east AL (see satellite picture below from 10:45 am CDT and current temps), … Continue reading →

Rain and thunderstorms are widespread at 6:35 pm, and this may be another night when they continue well after sunset, instead of the usual dying off once the sun goes down. SPC mesoscale analysis shows CAPE ranging from 1500 J/kg … Continue reading →

It’s never good when you’re the morning weather guy and the thunder wakes you up, but it happened to me about 20 minutes before normal rise-and-shine time today! A good, steady soaking has been in progress for the last 90 … Continue reading →

I saw one rainbow yesterday, but did not have my camera. Well, I got another opportunity today! Another beautiful rainbow in Helena with a nice shower behind it. Enjoy!

Looking at BMX sounding for the day, and we have a VERY moist airmass in place. The precipitable water (the amount of water that could be squeezed out of the entire atmosphere over one spot by a thunderstorm) is 5.78 … Continue reading →