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Alabama Power Is Ready. Are You?
The following useful preparedness content is provided by our friends at Alabama Power. Their generous sponsorship helps make AlabamaWX’s content possible. From Ike Pigott, Alabama Power When it comes to outages, the most important one is the one at your … Continue reading
North Alabama Notes
Snow showers across North Alabama are leaving light accumulations and slippery roads in spots. Looking at the Hytop radar won’t do you any good though because it is down waiting on a part. Here is the UAH ARMOR radar: Here … Continue reading
Hazardous Road Conditions Expected Overnight
Many school systems are delaying their start times for Tuesday morning, which is a very good idea given the rapid drops in temperature tonight quickly following on the heels of the heavy rains this evening. The actions of the school … Continue reading
Quick Check of 12Z Model Runs…For Friday
Here is an animation of what the GFS run from this morning is saying about Friday’s potential winter storm. The European is warmer and less bullish on the idea of any freezing or frozen precip. The solid blue line is … Continue reading
Late Morning Update
Everything is unfolding sort of as planned in our morning forecast with widespread light to occasionally moderate rain spreading across North and Central Alabama. The only real difference is that the rain is arriving a bit before I thought it … Continue reading
Late Night Check
Things are calm across Alabama at this late hour as we continue to watch developments to the west of us. Across Central Alabama right now, we see 33F at Birmingham and Anniston with 38F at Tuscaloosa. It was 30F at … Continue reading
7 p.m. Update
Here is an update on the Alabama Weather Situation tonight. No change in our forecast thinking tonight. All indications are that the surface low that will bring a mix of precipitation to Alabama is going to take a more northerly … Continue reading
NWS Birmingham Cancels Winter Storm Watch
The National Weather Service in Birmingham has canceled the winter storm watch for Central Alabama. The NWS Huntsville has upgraded their winter storm watch to a winter weather advisory. Upgraded, you say? Yes, the move from a watch to an … Continue reading
Pickens County Added to Winter Storm Watch
As a minor point of order, the NWS Birmingham has extended the Winter Storm Watch to include Pickens County. Counties already under the Winter Storm Watch include Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Etowah, Fayette, Jefferson, Lamar, Marion, Randolph, Shelby, St. … Continue reading
Presidents’ Day Storm Travel Nightmares – Southern Edition
Many folks will be traveling on the Presidents’ day holiday Monday. Let’s go area by area in the affected region across the South to put the travel impacts in perspective. Here is the 4 km NAM depiction of the four … Continue reading
