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Alabama Weather Update…6:15 p.m.
Here is a late afternoon look at Alabama’s weather… Get ready for another round of wet weather beginning later tonight and continuing through much of Sunday. Rainfall will begin to increase tonight along a warm front that will move northward … Continue reading
The Blizzard of 1996
“The Blizzard of 96†clobbered the major cities of the Northeast from January 6th through the 9th back in 1996. Snowfall rates of 1-2 inches per hour continued for 36 hours in the Northeast Corridor resulting in many new snowfall … Continue reading
What’s Wrong With This Picture?
I could not believe it when I saw the movie poster… And there are a lot of people getting their climate change information from a source that doesnt even know which way a low pressure system rotates. (This is not … Continue reading
NWS Seattle Needs Your Help
The NWS in Seattle is having a hrad time coming up with a name for the big windstorm that affected their area on December 14th/15th. You have until January 4th to get your entry in and share in weather immortality… … Continue reading
Nebraska Ice Storm Photos
Storm chaser Mike Hollingshead has posted amazing images of the terrible ice storm that has occurred over parts of the Plains, including Nebraska…
New Years Eve 1963 Snowstorm
At midnight on December 31, 1963, it was 31 degrees and cloudy at the Birmingham Airport with a light northeast wind. That northeast wind was circulating around high pressure over northern Illinois, sending cool air into North and Central Alabama. … Continue reading
Getting Foggy In Spots….
Dense fog is developing across parts of Central Alabama tonight… It will likely become widespread with the radiational cooling that is going on with moist aurface air under clear skies tonight. Use extreme caution when you encounter foggy conditions tonight … Continue reading
Alabama Weather Update – 4:45 p.m.
SKies have cleared over the northwestern quarter of Alabama. We did sneak in a little bit of sunshine at the end of the day in Birmingham. Showers and storms continue over extreme East Alabama at this hour. All of the … Continue reading
Rain Slow to Leave…
Rain showers, some heavy, continue over mainly the eastern half of North and Central Alabama, but more showers are developing over western sections still. So, showers will be less widespread, but will still be around for the next couple of … Continue reading
Alabama Weather Update – 10:20 a.m.
A large area of moderate to occasionally heavy rain and isolated embedded thunderstorms continues across much of the eastern two-thirds of Alabama on this final day of 2006. The back edge of the rain is fairly clearly defined now on … Continue reading
