Based on radar estimates, as much as five inches of rain so far over a small area of North Sumter County in West Alabama. Radar estimates are useful but are not the final word in rain amounts. Radar at 5:45 … Continue reading →

BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 441 AM CST TUE NOV 10 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR… LAMAR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA… … Continue reading →

* At Mobile Regional Airport, 3.22 inches of rain since yesterday morning. * Birmingham reporting a steady, chilly rain, moderate to heavy at times. Brisk NE wind. * At 4 am, the heaviest rain was in an arc curving from … Continue reading →

It is 3 o’clock on this Tuesday morning and Tropical Storm Ida is still not onshore. The forward movement has slowed. It is raining and windy over almost the entire state. Here are a few current spot reports and just … Continue reading →

These reports are based on observations at 4:00 this afternoon: * Steady rain, Mobile Regional Airport, wind east 17 * Light rain at Fairhope, wind NE, gusts 21 * Steady rain, Gulf Shores, wind NE 21 * Moderate rain, Destin, … Continue reading →

Tropical Storm Ida will make landfall at some point tonight on the North Gulf Coast. A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect from Grand Isle, Louisiana eastward to the Aucilla River, Florida. Of course, this includes all of the Alabama … Continue reading →

Probably the best news was the downgrade of Hurricane Ida to a tropical storm. Still can be a lot of foul weather with a tropical storm. At 11:45 am, radar showed showers as far north as the Montgomery area. Closer … Continue reading →

Tropical systems simply love very warm ocean waters. They are most excited when the water temperatures reach 85 or 87. Ida certainly will not find that as she progresses into the Northern Gulf waters which have cooled to the 70s … Continue reading →

Mobile Regional Airport…cloudy, wind NE 10 Gulf Shores Airport…Mostly cloudy, NE 6 Destin…cloudy, wind east 12, gusts 18 Fort Walton (Mary Ester)…cloudy, wind east 14, gusts 24 Pensacola Naval Air Station…cloudy, wind NE 13 Pascagoula…wind NE, gusts 12 East Dauphin … Continue reading →

For most parts of Alabama, temperatures were the lowest so far this autumn. Maybe not everywhere. This included some areas of heavy frost in some of the NE Alabama locations, such as Muscadine, Scrougeout and Vigo. Here is a list … Continue reading →