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The Cedar Key Hurricane of 1842
Las Islas Sabinas, or the Cedar Islands, are a group a small islands in Gulf of Mexico off the coast of the Florida Big Bend area. In 1836, General Zachary Taylor built a supply depot at what he called Depot … Continue reading
Closing in on 12 Months of Rain in Just Over 9 Months
We are quickly closing in on reaching our average annual rainfall at the Birmingham Airport. The annual average is 53.99 inches. Sunday morning, the rainfall total stood at 52.35 inches. By 8 p.m., 0.95 inches had fallen, pushing the total … Continue reading
Rain Increasing
Here’s what we have to look forward to overnight. The main rain area over Mississippi is moving due east. The heaviest rain should fall along and north of a line from Tuscaloosa County through Shelby County and over to Randolph … Continue reading
Alabama Weather Update – 10 a.m.
Rain covers nearly all of Arkansas, the northern half of Mississippi and extreme northern Louisiana this morning. The rain is developing ahead of a northward moving warm front. In Alabama, rain has spread into the northwestern part of the state, … Continue reading
Remembering Hurricane Opal
Media coverage at the National Hurricane Center in Miami is usually intense during any landfalling United States hurricane. But on the night of October 3, 1995, the verdict in the O.J. Simpson trial was grabbing the headlines and there were … Continue reading
Hurricane Hilda, 1964
On the morning of September 28, 1964, a weak low pressure system developed just south of Cuba in a westward moving tropical wave over the Caribbean. It tracked westward overnight and became Tropical Storm Hilda as it crossed the western … Continue reading
Racer’s Hurricane
On September 28, 1839, the sloop-of-war H.M.S. Racer encountered a hurricane in the Caribbean and ran with the storm until it reached the Yucatan Peninsula four days later. The storm would become known as the Racer’s Hurricane of 1837 and … Continue reading
Turn off the Sprinklers
Haven’t seen this before… It is the lawn and garden moisture index from the State Climatologist’s site. I don’t ever remember every square inch of Central Alabama having plenty of surface moisture. This why: This is the water.weather.gov depiction of … Continue reading
The 1906 Mobile Hurricane
On Tuesday, September 25, 1906, the weather in Mobile seemed benign. The day began mostly cloudy, but some sunshine broke through during the day. But storm warnings had been flying since the 22nd, as the U.S. Weather Bureau was tracking … Continue reading
Late Saturday Evening
One lone shower tonight, passing south of Arley, moving east southeast toward southern Cullman County. Some dense fog across the area tonight thanks to the moisture and suddenly clearing skies. Visibility is down to 1 3/4 miles at Tuscaloosa and … Continue reading
