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Life Threatening Flooding in Louisiana This Morning
Extremely heavy rain has been falling this morning across southeastern Louisiana from Lafayette up through Baton Rouge and Hammond and across the parishes that border Mississippi. More than five inches of rain has fallen across a wide area of southeastern … Continue reading
Looking a Little Tropical
The weather system over the Deep South was once thought to have a chance to become a tropical depression or tropical storm. That hasn’t happened, since the system is over land, and there isn’t any chance of that happening while … Continue reading
Strong Storms Moving into the Tuscaloosa Area w/Lightning, R+
Strong thunderstorms are moving into the Tuscaloosa area at this time. Lots of lightning, heavy rain and gusty winds, but they are not severe. Rainfall rates could exceed one inch per hour and localized flooding like we have seen in … Continue reading
Heavy Rains in Downtown Birmingham Causing Minor Flooding
A thunderstorm centered over the Birmingham Metro is dumping very heavy rainfall from Downtown along I-65 through Homewood to near Hoover. Heavy rain is also falling in western Jefferson County between Pleasant Grove,, Hueytown and Fairfield. The panel on the … Continue reading
Some Heavy Upslope Rains over E/NE Alabama This Morning
Interesting setup across Alabama this morning as an extremely moist airmass was at least for a time, being lifted up by the mountains and foothills of Northeast and East Alabama, resulting in really heavy rainfall for parts of Etowah, St. … Continue reading
Scattered Strong Storms Across Central Alabama
Scattered strong storms have developed across Central Alabama this afternoon. There is a nice cluster of storms over Clay, Randolph and Tallapoosa Counties of East Alabama. The strongest is northwest of Wedowee. Another group of storms extends from Etowah County … Continue reading
Another Alabama Summer Sunday
A big cluster of showers popped up early this morning over West Central Alabama, bringing some brief heavy rain to Tuscaloosa County. But otherwise, showers and storms have been slow to form as early morning clouds have held back temperatures … Continue reading
More Reasons to Take Pride in Our State – Good News From Alabama NewsCenter!
Getting Google, bigger Benz, touting tourism, bankrolling Blazers, persuading Pokemon and a basil breakdown are part of this week’s good news from Alabama NewsCenter. How Google came to choose Alabama for its $600 million data center Alabama back-to- school shoppers … Continue reading
The Weekly Gardener for August 15th
Each week, we sit down with Andy Hanna of Hanna’s Garden Center to talk about Central Alabama gardening. Here is this week’s Q&A. Q. What are most people planting right now? A. Ground covers and most evergreen trees or shrubs do … Continue reading
Strong Storms in the Birmingham Metro, Not Severe, But Lightning, Gusty Winds, Rain
Strong storms across the Birmingham Metro area are producing heavy rain, lightning and gusty winds. The strongest storms are south of Pell City right now with others extending from Bessemer to Homewood, and east of US-280 southeast of Lake Purdy. … Continue reading
