At 8 o’clock tonight no showers over about the north half of Alabama. Drier air has gradually displaced the very humid air. A broad zone of showers and thunderstorms, some with heavy rain was downstate however. The storms were along … Continue reading →

Over North Alabama, drier air spread in this afternoon and pretty much eliminated any shower activity. However, big-time downpours are occurring across Central Alabama early this evening. Some of the heaviest rain was over Greene County in West/Central Alabama. It … Continue reading →

John Talbot is the ABC 33/40 Skywatcher for Concord/Hueytown in West Jefferson County. But this afternoon he is in North Jefferson County and reports 2.50 inches of rain in a slow moving storm in the Fultondale area!

Again this afternoon, scattered showers and thunderstorms were beginning to show up across the Alabama countryside except there were very few over the extreme northern counties where the dew point had dropped into the 60s. (translation, drier air) A couple … Continue reading →

BULLETIN HURRICANE ALEX ADVISORY NUMBER 20 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL012010 1000 AM CDT WED JUN 30 2010 ..ALEX HAS NOT STRENGTHENED YET…BUT FORECAST TO DO SO TODAY SUMMARY OF 1000 AM CDT…1500 UTC…INFORMATION ———————————————– LOCATION…23.8N 95.5W ABOUT … Continue reading →

After dumping some very heavy rain late today and this evening, showers and thunderstorms were “going downhill” Just before 8 o’clock, there was a west to east line of showers from Talladega County east across Clay and Randolph County to … Continue reading →

FLOOD ADVISORY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 635 PM CDT TUE JUN 29 2010 ALC073-117-300130- /O.NEW.KBMX.FA.Y.0099.100629T2335Z-100630T0130Z/ /00000.N.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ SHELBY AL-JEFFERSON AL- 635 PM CDT TUE JUN 29 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED AN * URBAN AND SMALL … Continue reading →

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 558 PM CDT TUE JUN 29 2010 ALZ024-025-292345- JEFFERSON AL-SHELBY AL- 558 PM CDT TUE JUN 29 2010 …SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN JEFFERSON AND NORTHERN SHELBY COUNTIES UNTIL 645 PM CDT… … Continue reading →

The radar map across Alabama looks like it has the measles late this afternoon. There are dozens of showers and many of them cannot decide which way they want to go. Some of the heavier showers, of course, have grown … Continue reading →

This is not an all inclusive list but a selected list of some ongoing downpours …..North and west of Downtown Birmingham extending out to Birmingham Airport and out near where I-459 joins I-59 near Trussville …..Along the Fayette-Walker County line … Continue reading →