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Heavy Rain in Tuscaloosa
Slow moving storms in Tuscaloosa County are dumping torrential rains. There are reports of flooding on the UA campus. Flooding is reported by the Tuscaloosa News building. 7th street and 28th Avenue water is up to a foot high on … Continue reading
North Alabama Storms Dump Heavy Rains
Storms are over North Alabama at this hour. You can see the SPC slight risk boundary (the yellow line). That storm over Marion County has been dumping some copious ranfall. A blog reader reported three inches in 30 minutes with … Continue reading
Slight Risk Area Today/Tonight Over Northwest Alabama
Showers and storms were increasing in coverage and intensity this morning from northern Mississippi into Tennessee. They are just northwest of the very northwest corner of Alabama. They are forming in a convergence zone ahead of a cold front that … Continue reading
The Latest on the Tropics
Ernesto is actually weaker this evening. Ernesto has lost a little organization. It is probably running into dry air over the Caribbean. It still will likely become a hurricane in the next 48 hours as it moves over the western … Continue reading
More Flooding Reports
Other flooding reports from this evening: …30th Street North and Shuttlesworth Drive …27th Street and Vanderbilt Road…high standing water with stalled out motorists and others trying to drive through it…please don’t be part of the problem when there is standing … Continue reading
Birmingham Flooding
In what has become a too familiar scene this week, the Birmingham Fire Department has water rescues in progress in the downtown area. The heavy rain has ended in the downtown area, but continues from north of downtown to Fultondale, … Continue reading
Saturday Afternoon Notebook
…Showers and thunderstorms are most numerous this afternoon over Northwest Alabama into the Tennessee Valley, being influenced by an upper level disturbance that is passing by to the north. The NWS Huntsville just issued a flash flood warning for parts … Continue reading
Examining the Details
It’s hard to get a good handle on what to expect across Central Alabama on this Saturday afternoon. Let’s examine some of the elements of the weather together: DRIER AIR, WIDELY SCATTERED STORMS: This morning’s balloon launched from the Shelby … Continue reading
Tropics Heating Up
Tropical Storm Ernesto is moving rapidly west northwest across the Caribbean to the south southeast of the Dominican Republic this morning. The Hurricane Hunters have been in the storm since before 7 a.m. They have noted that the central pressure … Continue reading
Then There Were Two…
…two tropical storms that is. Florence was just named in the far eastern Atlantic about 300 miles west southwest of the Cape Verde Islands, or just a little more than 600 miles off the African Coast. As to Ernesto: More … Continue reading
