Healthy amounts of rain coming down in several areas of Alabama tonight. Here is the story as of 9:40 pm: 1. Heaviest rain over North Tuscaloosa, Fayette, South Marion County in West and NW Alabama. That area also has some … Continue reading →

A number of showers and thunderstorms in progress. Let’s try to separate them into groups. 1. A line of low-top thunderstorms over East/Central Alabama from North Talladega County to East Shelby County moving slowly west. The tops of these storms … Continue reading →

Not nearly as many showers and storms this afternoon as there were yesterday. Over the north half of the state, a cluster of storms was over NW Alabama near the junction of Colbert, Franklin and Lawrence Counties. Very few in … Continue reading →

* 60 is the number of minutes of daylight that we have lost in a very gradual process since the longest days of summer. Eventually that shows up in our daily temperatures because of less heating, of course. * 91 … Continue reading →

A relatively small family of showers has been moving ever so slowly southward through West Alabama this morning. Even though they are not especially heavy, they are moderate to heavy and moving slowly enough that they have time to give … Continue reading →

Not nearly as many thunderstorms in progress as compared to earlier this afternoon. However, scattered thunderstorms at 5:50 were in progress from about Fayette into Extreme NW Tuscaloosa County and southeastward through East Tuscaloosa as far as West Coosa County. … Continue reading →

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 415 PM CDT WED SEP 9 2009 ..SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR SHELBY COUNTY UNTIL 500 PM CDT AT 414 PM CDT…THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH … Continue reading →

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 245 PM CDT WED SEP 9 2009 ..SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR CLAY RANDOLPH AND TALLAPOOSA COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM CDT… AT 243 PM CDT…THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG … Continue reading →

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 237 PM CDT WED SEP 9 2009 ALZ024-025-092030- JEFFERSON-SHELBY- 237 PM CDT WED SEP 9 2009 …SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR JEFFERSON AND SHELBY COUNTIES UNTIL 330 PM CDT… AT 237 PM CDT…THE … Continue reading →

* Dime size hail 2 miles east of Newell in East Alabama’s Randolph County and a a tree down on County Road 82 * At 1:40pm, in the same area a house was on fire caused by lightning. Fire Department … Continue reading →