Our shower area has held together long enough to reach the Birmingham Metro area late this evening. The showers cover parts of Jefferson, Walker, Tuscaloosa, Hale and Bibb Counties about to move into St. Clair County. The showers are most … Continue reading →

Dr. William Gray and Philip Klotzbach at Colorado State University have issued their long range forecast for seasonal hurricane activity in the Atlantic for next year. They are calling for 13 named storms next season. The long term climatalogical average … Continue reading →

An area of showers is now moving east northeast and northeast across Central Alabama. It has weakened over the past two hours, but has expanded a bit in areal extent. It now covers parts of Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Sumter, Greene, Hale, … Continue reading →

Here is a special weather statement from the National Weather Service in Birmingham… SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 504 PM CST SAT DEC 8 2007 ALZ030>032-082345- GREENE-HALE-SUMTER- 504 PM CST SAT DEC 8 2007 …SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT … Continue reading →

Our area of showers and storms over West Alabama has grown into a nice little complex this afternoon. At 4:55 p.m., the storms were over Sumter and Choctaw Counties. The strongest storm was just north of Livingston along and south … Continue reading →

At 3:25 p.m., NWS radar shows a cluster of showers and storms over Southwest Alabama’s Choctaw, Marengo and Wilcox Counties. They extend back into southern Mississippi. They are moving NNE at 25 mph. Lightning detection shows lightning occurring over Choctaw … Continue reading →

What would you think is the most important advance in weather technology during the last 200 years? Doppler radar? The weather satellite? Computer models? I would propose that it was the simple telegraph. The invention of the telegraph in the … Continue reading →

The National Weather Service has released its service assessment from the March 1, 2007 outbreak that produced the deadly tornado at Enterprise. Eight students died at Enterprise High School. al-ga_tornadoes07.pdf The report is very positive but includes some good recommendations. … Continue reading →

As expected, a band of showers is moving across Mississippi and into Northwest Alabama this evening. The main band extends from about lawrenceburg, Tennessee, just entering extreme northwestern Lauderdale County then southwestward to just west of Tupelo to near Winona … Continue reading →

When I was a kid, I had a Patrolman 6 band VHF/UHF radio that picked up the aircraft frequencies. I could spend hours listening to the controllers at BHM handling the planes. Now of course, you listen over the internet, … Continue reading →