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Parade Balloons Gone Wild
I love Thanksgiving. It may be my favorite holiday. It is a time when everyone is home, including my college age boys. Our tradition has evolved over the years, and it involves wonderful food and time spent being thankful. A … Continue reading
NWS Changing NOAA Weatheradio Configurations
John De Block, the Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Birmingham has advised us that they will be changing the counties that the NOAA Weatheradio stations in Birmingham and Tuscaloosa are being reprogrammed based on transmitter coverage … Continue reading
The 1983 Iron Bowl
The 1983 Iron Bowl game is one of the greatest in the history of the rivalry. It was played at Legion Field on December 3rd. The game started in beautiful warm sunshine after a stormy night of very heavy rains … Continue reading
A Nice November Satuday
View from the Trussville skycam at 1:19. It is a beautiful November day across Central Alabama. A light southerly flow is transporting moisture northward into the state, bringing stratocumulus clouds along with it, which give the sky a bit of … Continue reading
Storms Moving Across Metro
A line of thunderstorms is moving across the Birmingham Metro area at this hour. It extends from just west of Hayden to near Warrior, Kimberly and Morris, then to the west of Gardendale to west of Fairfield. It will move … Continue reading
Rain Building to the West
As you can see on this IR GOES satellite image from shortly after midnight, cloud tops are cooling rapidly early this morning over Louisiana as rainfall increases. This activity is pushing northeast as we expected. Given present motion, rain will … Continue reading
Rain and Storms Already Cranking Up
Rain and thunderstorms are already getting started across Central Alabama tonight as a developing upper level system and surface low to our west and southwest gets organized. A warm front will move slowly northward overnight and tomorrow producing periods of … Continue reading
Mid Afternoon Update
SUNDAY SPRINKLES: The frontal system that pushed into the state overnight is stationary now, from about Anniston to Selma to Grove Hill. Some heavier showers have developed over parts of East and Central Alabama at mid-afternoon but rainfall amounts have … Continue reading
Overnight Showers
A weakening cold front likes just inside the Alabama/Mississippi border late tonight. Light showers cover parts of Pickens, Fayette, Winston and Lawrence Counties. Slightly heavier showers extend from just east of Tupelo into the Columbus MS area. These showers will … Continue reading
Showers in our Future
THIS AFTERNOON: Cirrus clouds in the western sky are a harbinger of the changes that are coming. Our weakening cold front is across the Mississippi River this afternoon. Showers extended from west of Nashville down to near Greenwood in the … Continue reading
