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Irene Maintains Strength
Here is the latest on Irene as of 10 p.m. CDT: LOCATION…32.6N 76.9W ABOUT 140 MI…225 KM S OF CAPE LOOKOUT NORTH CAROLINA ABOUT 195 MI…315 KM SSW OF CAPE HATTERAS NORTH CAROLINA MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…100 MPH…160 KM/H PRESENT MOVEMENT…NNE … Continue reading
A Hot One Across Central Alabama
Weather charts used to come into the National Weather Service offices on these old wet fax machines. They were sepia toned on this thin paper. They were hole punched and mounted on peg boards. Don’t get me wrong, I love … Continue reading
Photogenic Storms
Jeff Drake captured these two images of the severe storms in Chilton County yesterday. This image is the first warned cell that was southeast of Clanton. This cell formed northwest of the first one over Clanton about 30 minutes later. … Continue reading
Irene Strengthening
Convection has been building over the past few hours as Tropical Storm Irene passed the Virgin Islands. Top winds are now 70 mph and the central pressure is own to 993 mb. Irene will move across Puerto Rico tonight and … Continue reading
Afternoon Update Plus Bonus Irene Info
Showers and thunderstorms were expected to be fairly numerous across Central Alabama this afternoon as an upper level disturbance swings across the area. So far, they have been most numerous over South Central Alabama, south of a line from Aliceville … Continue reading
Andrew’s Delayed Upgrade to Cat Five
Ten years after Hurricane Andrew made landfall in South Florida, the National Hurricane Center announced on this date in 2002 that the hurricane had been upgraded from a Category 4 storm to a Category 5, the highest rating on the … Continue reading
Widely Scattered Storms
Showers and thunderstorms have developed this afternoon mainly in an arc from Northwest through North Central and into South central Alabama. The heaviest cell is just west of Pelham in northern Shelby County. Storms over northern Autaua and Chilton Counties … Continue reading
Widely Scattered Showers Popping Up
Temperatures are soaring across Central Alabama on this August Saturday. All of the major reporting stations in the state were at 90F or above by 11 a.m. this morning, except for Huntsville, where it was 88F. It had already reached … Continue reading
The Big Blowup
The largest forest fire in American history was burning three million acres in two days across northern Idaho and western Montana back on this date in 1910. The Big Blowup, as it was called, was fanned by hurricane force winds … Continue reading
TD #7 Upgraded to Tropical Storm Gert
Tropical Storm Gert is on the board now. TD7 was upgraded just before 1 p.m. today. It is embedded is dry air, so additional strengthening will be limited. Tropical Storm Warnings are in effect for the island of Bermuda. The … Continue reading
