New records for the date… Birmingham 103 (tie) Montgomery 102 (tie) Anniston 104 (old record 102F) Tuscaloosa 103 (tie) Muscle Shoals hit 106 to establish a new record earlier. The mercury may have gone even higher there. Huntsville had tied … Continue reading →

Isolated showers and storms continue across a few lucky parts of the state this afternoon… One is near Ashland in Clay County. Friend of the Blog Mike McCormick reports a good bit of thunder and lightning. Earlier storm brought a … Continue reading →

You have to look hard in the ground clutter pattern…but they are there. A nice little storm has developed near Argo in northeast Jefferson County. It has real live lightning and thunder in it. Other developing storms are over southern … Continue reading →

Lynn Oldshue reports rain in Saginaw. Don’t look on the BMX radar…you won’t find the shower embedded in the extensive ground clutter pattern. Bring it on!

The mercury reached 100F just before 1 p.m. at the Birmingham Airport, marking the tenth consecutive day that the temperature has been 100F or higher. This adds one more day to the record. Other readings at 1 p.m.: Tuscaloosa 100F … Continue reading →

At 10 a.m., the NHC is finished with advisories on Tropical Depression Erin, which is inland over South Texas. Hurricane Dean is intensifying in the Atlantic… QUICK FACTS…10 a.m. CDT LOCATION: 13.7N/54.3W of 350 miles east of Barbados and 455 … Continue reading →

When the mercury reached 100 degrees just before lunch today, it marked the ninth consecutive day that the thermometer hit triple digits at the Airport. At 1 p.m., we tied the record for the date with a temperature of 101F. … Continue reading →

Temperatures are soaring again this morning under mostly clear skies. The mercury is up to 94F at the Birmingham Airport. That is a couple of degrees ahead of yesterday. Dew points are relatively low, in the lower 60s. They will … Continue reading →

TROPICAL STORM DEAN Top winds up to 60 mph… 1045 miles east of the Lesser Antilles… Moving W-20… Will become a hurricane over the next 36 hours… Model guidance tightly clustered on a solution which takes it into the Caribbean … Continue reading →

Out in the far eastern Atlantic…Tropical Storm Dean is beginning to encounter less shear and will begin a steady strengthening process that will take it to major hurricane status by the weekend… Here is an infrared satellite photo from tonight… … Continue reading →