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A Nice January Saturday
A beautiful sunshine-filled day is in progress across Central Alabama. Temperatures have rebounded nicely under full sun, into the lower and middle 50s, after a cold start. Official morning readings ranged from 19F at Pinson to 23F at Tuscaloosa and … Continue reading
Thirty Years Ago Today…
A powerful cold front moved through Alabama on Saturday, January 9, 1982, sending temperatures plummeting. The high on Saturday at Birmingham was 49, but it was down to 27 by midnight and the mercury was in a free fall like … Continue reading
Showers/Storms Firing, Warning Issued in Mississippi
Showers and thunderstorms were beginning to edge back to the north a bit tonight over central Alabama. Rain and isolated thunder covered a good bit of Tuscaloosa and Bibb Counties at this hour, lifting into Shelby and Chilton Counties. One … Continue reading
Getting a Little Froggy Out There
Foggy that is. Patchy dense fog is developing in the warm, moist airmass across Central Alabama and a Dense Fog Advisory has been issued for all of Central Alabama. Visibilities will be reduced to under a mile at times overnight … Continue reading
Clouds Hang Tough
Clouds are hanging tough across Central Alabama this afternoon. Much of the precipitation is now over South Central Alabama. At 2 p.m., showers were lined up from Demoplis to Marion to Clanton. Others were over East Alabama’s Randolph County. Areas … Continue reading
Some Heavy Showers/Thunder This Morning
Showers and some embedded thunder continue across parts of Northwest and Central Alabama this morning. Heavy rain covers eastern Tuscaloosa, southern Jefferson and northern Shelby Counties. Lighter rain is common over St. Clair, Blount, Talladega, Clay and Randolph Counties. A … Continue reading
Showers/Storms Weakening
Our line of showers and storms is approaching I-59 tonight from Gadsden south. North of there, it is already east of the Interstate in DeKalb and Etowah Counties. South of Blount county, the line become broken and is just showers. … Continue reading
Showers Sink Slowly South
A line of heavy showers continues this afternoon from northern Walker County through Cullman County into Northeast Alabama. At 3 p.m. the activity extends from near Carbon Hill to Good Hope to south of Arab to Fyffe. The heaviest precipitation … Continue reading
Morning Update
It’s a frequent battle we see play out over Alabama and the south. The Battle of the High Pressure Systems. In this corner, weighing in at 1024 millibars, over South Florida, we have the Okeechosee Persister. It’s tenacious. In the … Continue reading
Morning Showers
A few showers are occurring across Central Alabama this morning as a ripple in the upper flow passes over the state. Other showers are massing over northern Mississippi and western Tennessee ahead of a southeastward moving cold front. Skies are … Continue reading
