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Shower!
A nice cumulus field has formed across Central Alabama this afternoon. A few light showers were beginning to develop. At 3:55, a couple of showers had developed over northern Jefferson County. A small but rather heavy shower had developed along … Continue reading
Alabama at the Lunch Hour
The cold front had sagged south of Birmingham and Tuscaloosa at the lunch hour on this Saturday. With nearly full sunshine, temperatures are approaching 80 in the Tuscaloosa/Birmingham areas with mid 70s near Anniston. Clouds and some very light precipitation … Continue reading
Just Before 6 a.m.
Temperatures are in the 50s early this morning across Central Alabama, ranging from 52F at Gadsden to 56F at Tuscaloosa at just before 6 a.m. Dewpoints are in the lower 50s. A little light ground fog has formed in some … Continue reading
Upcoming WeatherBrains Guests
Upcoming guests on WeatherBrains, the netcast that’s all about weather. April 20th – Bob Baron, Founder of Baron Weather Services April 27th – Author John Barry, the 1927 Mississippi River flood May 4th – Sheldon Kusselson, NOAA Satellite Information Division … Continue reading
Eyewitness To A Legendary Photo
Credit: NOAA Last night, Timothy Ganger of Slidell, Louisiana was one of four awesome contestants on WeatherBrains episode #220 as we played Stump the Listeners. Tim has a unique claim to fame: his family was standing next to the photographer … Continue reading
My Favorite Weather History Books…
Someone on Twitter asked WeatherBrains friend Nate Johnson from WRAL for some weather history book recommendations and he passed it along to me. That’s an easy idea, but it’s hard to come up with my top ten relatively recent favorites. … Continue reading
The 1965 Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak
On the morning of April 11, 1965, warm, humid air was flowing northeastward into the Midwest ahead of a fast moving low pressure center that was dropping southeast out of Minnesota toward Iowa. A warm front was moving northward across … Continue reading
Contestants Needed
Tuesday night, April 13th, we will record the weekly episode of WeatherBrains, the netcast that’s all about weather. We will be playing a game called Stump the Listener, that is loosely based on the game played on Wait, Wait Don’t … Continue reading
Book Review: Mike Smith’s New Book
Warnings: The True Story of How Science Tamed the Weather by Mike Smith Mike Smith was the Guest WeatherBrain on episode 199 last November. Listen here. Do you remember the last time that a tornado killed one hundred or more … Continue reading
Alabama Weather Update – 9:45 p.m.
Our line of thunderstorms continues progressing across northern Mississippi tonight. It has advanced as far east as a line from Holly Springs to Oxford to west of Greenwood to west of Vicksburg. The overall intensity of the storms has dropped … Continue reading
