Author Archives: murray
Welcome to July
Photograph by Kathy Bell, owner of kbella photography. As you would expect, July is the hottest month of the year in Birmingham. The average daytime high is 90.6F. The average overnight low is 69.7. There really isn’t much difference on … Continue reading
Mid-Evening Radar Update
Storms are fairly concentrated in two places tonight, including Morgan County in North Alabama and Greene and Hale Counties in West Central Alabama. Showers have weakened over Walker County. The storms over Morgan County are near the vortex of the … Continue reading
Isolated Showers Forming
Isolated showers are forming across western Alabama this afternoon ahead of a southeastward diving upper disturbance that is near Memphis at this hour. They extend northward along a curved line into Central Tennessee west of Nashville. The heaviest shower was … Continue reading
A Noonday Update
As we sail into afternoon here in Central Alabama, here is a quick look at the Alabama weather situation. Yesterday’s cold front lies across southeastern Alabama with a surface low tracking along it southwest of Atlanta. The front isn’t going … Continue reading
Amazing Records Out West
The western United States is sizzling under a huge 594 dkm upper level high pressure system. Lots of records fell on Friday, and even more today. Here is a representative listing of daily records for 6/29: 123F at Needles CA … Continue reading
Rare Kelvin-Helmholtz Wave Clouds Here!
(This is an archived post from December 16, 2011.) These images were sent in by a number of our readers/viewers at midday… the first shot below is from the Alabama Air National Guard facility at the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport… This … Continue reading
Spann at AMS Broadcasters Conference
Nate Johnson, one of the WeatherBrains panelists, was one of the Program Chairs for the AMS Second Conference on Weather Warnings and Communication this week in Nashville. He collaborated with several other Tweeters to create a great account of James’ … Continue reading
Isolated Storms Trying to Form
Did you notice the subtle difference in the weather this morning? The clue: a deck of broken low clouds. The low clouds were produced by increased low level moisture that started spreading into the area late yesterday. THE ALABAMA WEATHER … Continue reading
Moonbow!
Friend of the Blog Jenny Ellison and her husband made a special trip to Corbin, Kentucky this weekend for one specific purpose: to take photographs of moonbows. Moonbows, or lunar rainbows, are hard to capture. To do so requires a … Continue reading
Showers and Storms on the Increase
As expected, showers and storms have increased early this morning across Central Alabama. Just before 2 a.m., they are heavy in the Birmingham Metro area, extending across much of Jefferson County over western St. Clair, eastern Blount and into western … Continue reading
