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Showers Pushing East, TD #18 Forms

Showers pushed into West Alabama early this afternoon, and have been moving east ever since.  They are associated with a fairly strong little disturbance that caused severe weather well to our west last night.  We haven’t see any lightning since … Continue reading →

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Showers Pushing into West Alabama

The strong disturbance that caused the severe weather delay last evening at Norman for the Oklahoma/Texas Tech game has held its own and is pushing across Mississippi right now. It is approaching the Alabama/Mississippi border just before 12:30 p.m. It … Continue reading →

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A Gorgeous Saturday

A gorgeous Saturday is in progress across Central Alabama. Temperatures at early afternoon were climbing through the 60s. Just a couple of spots might hit 70F this afternoon. 70s will be more common on Sunday as our gradual warm up … Continue reading →

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Cheaha Leaf Watch

Tim Miller of Odenville took this photo From Tammy Power, who runs the lodge at Mt. Cheaha: If your viewers drive from Munford or Hwy 21 side that is where more of the color is at this time. Something many … Continue reading →

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April 27th Town Hall Will Be Streamed Live Tonight

Tonight, a very special Town Hall meeting will be held in conjunction with the National Weather Association Annual Meeting. Alagasco is the underwriting sponsor for the audience response technology. We thank them for this generous donation that made the event … Continue reading →

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Four Special Weather Events You Won’t Want to Miss This Weekend

There are four very special weather events that you will not want to miss this weekend in Birmingham. Two you have been hearing about, and two that are new on the agenda. With Alabama and Auburn playing late afternoon games, … Continue reading →

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Mr. Peters’ KFC

Our skilled Skywatcher Ron Hughes completed the full set of birdhouses for the weather team at ABC 33/40 and The Weather Company with a special KFC for the Internationally Beloved Meteorologist Brian Peters. He delivered it to him at the … Continue reading →

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Invitations Are in the (E)-Mail

Thanks to the nearly 200 people who responded to the solicitation for audience members for the Town Hall on the April 27th Alabama Tornadoes. It will be held on Tuesday evening, October 18, 2011 from 7 p.m until 9 p.m. … Continue reading →

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Rina, Is That You?

The evolving system east of Florida is getting better organized tonight.  It is just southeast of Cape Canaveral. Moving northwest, the system still has a chance to become a subtropical storm before it makes landfall along the eastern Florida coast.  … Continue reading →

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Showers Trying to Push Northwestward

Clouds spread northwestward into Alabama overnight as a disturbance over the eastern Gulf of Mexico, Florida and the Bahamas slowly got its act together. A large area of low pressure in the upper atmosphere covers much of the aforementioned area … Continue reading →

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