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Interesting Weather Out West
According to Greg Carbin, the WCM at the Storm Prediction Center, this is the first tornado watch in the history of the state of Utah. That’s amazing! I am in Tucson, Arizona, at the National Weather Association meeting. Yesterday, we … Continue reading
Welcome to October!
Photo credit: Kathy Bell, kbella photography October is arguably the nicest month for weather in Central Alabama. Of course, a slow day-long soaking rain probably sounds good about now. October ranks as the driest month in Birmingham with an average … Continue reading
All Time Record High at Los Angeles Today
This is a pretty significant record at Downtown Los Angeles today… At LAX…the mercury peaked at 11 a.m. at 103F, but fell after that due to a westerly wind kicking (bringing cooler air from the ocean.) NOUS46 KLOX 271928 PNSLOX … Continue reading
Central Alabama Soaker
Widespread moderate to heavy rain continues this hour in generally the area south of a line from Jacksonville to Pell City to Montevallo to Brent to Demopolis to Butler It is raining hard now in places like Prattville and west … Continue reading
Sunday Morning Thunder
After a long hot summer, a day of rain and gentle thunder is a nice relief. The rain is heaviest this hour east and southeast of Birmingham. Over West Alabama, heavier showers are over Pickens, Greene and northern Sumter Counties. … Continue reading
Late Evening Update
Is there any better football than in the SEC? What a fun day of watching football today. And how about UAB? The atmospheric pattern is changing across Alabama and the Deep South, and changing in a big way. The persistent … Continue reading
Alabama Update 6:20 p.m.
A few isolated showers are on radar at this hour across the middle of the state from eastern Tuscaloosa through parts of Jefferson County and over East Alabama’s Randolph County. One is right over I-65 in the Homewood area. Everything … Continue reading
90…Again…and a War Eagle Weather Update
WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN: J.B.’s favorite band, The Who, sang those lyrics about revolution back in 1971. I am going to claim them in relation to the summer that won’t quit, the summer of 2010. This morning, I predicted that … Continue reading
Today in Weather History – September 25th
The only known eastern Pacific tropical cyclone to move onshore into southern California made landfall at Long Beach CA on this date in 1939 with sustained winds of 50 mph. Rainfall of five inches in the Los Angeles basin and … Continue reading
Showers and Storms
Showers and thunderstorms continue along a stalled frontal boundary from Central Tennessee through the Northwest corner of Alabama into Mississippi, Louisiana and back to Texas. In Alabama, moderate to heavy rain is falling across much of Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence, Limestone … Continue reading
