Author Archives: murray
On This Date in 1957
November 17, 1957 was a Sunday. Newspaper headlines chronicled a deadly crash of the New york Central passenger train, The Chicagoan, in Michigan. The crash killed one and injured 32. Another train crash in France killed 28. Seventeen people, including … Continue reading
Morning Notes
Some late morning notes on Alabama weather on this November Sunday: …Today is the 11th anniversary of the Veterans Day Weekend Tornado Outbreak that saw 11 tornadoes in Alabama on Sunday afternoon and evening. They killed 12 people. They are … Continue reading
Frost Advisory for Parts of Central Alabama
The NWS has issued a Frost Advisory for Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Etowah, Jefferson, Lee, Macon, Marion, Randolph, Russell, Shelby, St. Clair, Talladega, Tallapoosa, Tuscaloosa, Walker and Winston Counties for tonight and early … Continue reading
A Wealth of Weather
I almost feel guilty when I sit and think about the wealth of information available to us as weather humans today. Just sitting at four screens, I can simultaneously see instantly updated displays of winds at 35,000, pressure patterns at … Continue reading
A Little Very Light Rain
An interesting feature is spreading very light showers across western Alabama at this hour. On water vapor satellite imagery (lower left panel of image above), it shows up clearly as a small upper level low approaching the Mississippi River south … Continue reading
Disturbance Headed Our Way
Areas across the northern third of the state started off rather cloudy this morning, while southern areas enjoyed more sun early. This set up an interesting temperature story. Morning lows were coolest in areas that were clear overnight, which meant … Continue reading
Not Much to Talk About…
Not much to talk about in Alabama’s weather this afternoon. Skies are clear. Temperatures are mild (approaching 70F) and the atmosphere is bone dry with precipitable water values running less than one half of an inch. The nearest precipitation to … Continue reading
Morning Showers Pushing East
The weather is behaving according to the forecast this morning across Central Alabama. This is good news for scheduled sporting events in Tuscaloosa and Talladega. At this hour, the visible satellite picture shows extensive cloudiness over all of Alabama except … Continue reading
Remembering Hurricane Wilma (2005)
At 08:01 GMT (3:01 a.m. CDT) on October 19, 2005, Air Force Hurricane Hunters measured a central pressure of 884 millibars in Hurricane Wilma while it was over the western Caribbean. Here is the vortex data message from the plane … Continue reading
Late Evening Update
The cold front is near a line from Anniston to Selma tonight and the remnant low from Karen is south of Destin. Showers have been more persistent than we expected behind the front over Central Alabama. There is some heavy … Continue reading
