Rainfall continues to be mainly across the northern quarter of Alabama tonight. So far, radar estimates indicate amounts are well less than one quarter of an inch for the most part. Showers were increasing back over Central Mississippi near I-55. … Continue reading →

Light to moderate rain conitnues in a band over northern Alabama tonight. The rain area is generally several miles north of I-20. The heaviest rain, which is moderate, is over Cullman, Marshall and DeKalb Counties. Light to moderate rain covers … Continue reading →

Less than four hours away from the big game in Auburn tonight…and things are looking good for now. Regional radars shows that all of the shower activity in Alabama is north of US-80 for now. There is a light shower … Continue reading →

As expected, cloudiness is increasing across Alabama. An area of light rain was over Northwest Alabama. Light rain was reported at Haleyville’s Posey Airport with a temperature of 40F. The main activity was over Colbert, Lauderdale and Lawrence Counties. The … Continue reading →

Thirty six tornadoes touched down on a Saturday in Alabama, setting a record for the number of tornadoes in a single day for the state. It surpassed the previous record for the state which was set during the April 3, … Continue reading →

We got in a sunny and cold start early on this Saturday morning, but things will be changing quickly. Southwesterly winds aloft are already transporting Gulf moisture up and over our cold airmass. The atmosphere will begin the process of … Continue reading →

Dr. Theodore Fujita is known as “Mr. Tornado. And with good reason. Fujita’s body of research has probably done more to advance the study of the disastrous storms. Born in Japan in 1920, he studied at the Kyoto Institute, where … Continue reading →

The anti-rain force field is fully charged this afteroon north east of a line from Alexander City up highway 280 over to Calera to Bessemer and northwest to near Fayette and Vernon. Rain showers are moving east and northeast into … Continue reading →

A weakening upper trough is moving eastward out of Texas and across Louisiana this morning. This system produced some extremely heavy rainfall amounts last night across South Texas, including widespread seven inch amounts across Fayette County east of San Antonio. … Continue reading →

November 18, 1929, an earthquake off the coast of southern Newfoundland in a region called the Grand Banks, caused a submarine landslide that triggered a tsunami that killed people on the Burin Peninsula of Newfoundland. The earthquake, which had a … Continue reading →