Author Archives: J.B. Elliott
Ice Storm Underway
This is only a sample of numerous reports late tonight from the middle of the country: * At Fayetteville, in NW Arkansas, home of the University of Arkansas, streets were icing over. It has already become extremely slick and hazardous … Continue reading
A Scary Ice Storm
Check out this Special from NWS, Little Rock late this afternoon. By all means, this is not limited to just North and Central Arkansas. A big majority of the weather stations in Oklahoma were reporting freezing rain at 4 pm … Continue reading
Bad News Weather
A significant wintry weather problem for a large part of the Central and East U.S. in a broad zone from Texas to New York. The following areas will be impacted by either a winter storm with snow or freezing rain: … Continue reading
Very Interesting Flyby
Space Weather News for Jan. 25, 2009 https://spaceweather.com CURIOUS ASTEROID FLYBY: Newly-discovered asteroid 2009 BD is slowly passing by Earth today only 400,000 miles away. The approximately 10 meter-wide space rock poses no significant threat, but it merits attention anyway: … Continue reading
Dart Board Weather Model
I call it forecasting using a dart board. It almost gets down to that at times, such as yesterday afternoon’s forecast for low this morning. We knew it would be that way. In yesterday afternoon’s edition, I used 39 as … Continue reading
Story of a Strange Tornado
It happened six miles due north of downtown Havana Junction where I grew up. But it happened 28 years before I joined the population of this ole earth. It happened 105 years ago today. It happened out of season. It … Continue reading
Another Cold Morning
Below freezing even deep into Florida. Not quite as cold as yesterday morning in Alabama. This list will be much shorter than yesterday: ALABAMA 14 Rock Mills, Broomtown, Muscadine 16 Scrougeout 17 McCalla 18 Moody, Munford 19 Pinson, Vigo, Centre, … Continue reading
Statewide Hard Freeze
Here we go with another long list of low temperatures, not only from Alabama, but far and wide. Remember, we often get more than one report from some Alabama locations. Also, notice how this morning’s hard freeze went all the … Continue reading
Inauguration Weather
Inauguration Day is tomorrow, but lets start with today in Washington and go through Tuesday. This forecast extracted from the official NWS: TODAY: A chance of snow this morning but a better chance this afternoon, Expected accumulation about one inch. … Continue reading
Alabama Just Before 8 o’clock
First, be sure and scroll down to see some absolutely beautiful pictures from Tom Denmark as he enjoyed a period of “icicle making.” Some folks make snow and Tom does icicles! ————————————————— Scattered patches of light precipitation continue across Central … Continue reading
