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Success!
You guys gave great advice to Matt in Altoona about setting his weather station up on the web… Hi Bill, Thanks so much for putting my message to you on the blog. I received a lot of helpful tips from … Continue reading
The Top 20 U.S Weather Events in 2008
Counting down my top 20 U.S. Weather Events of 2008… 20. Sale of The Weather Channel in July to NBC Universal and two private equity firms for $3.5 billion. The main attraction may have been the 40 million unique visitors … Continue reading
Radar Update – 7 p.m.
Rain is spreading east northeast tonight over West Central Alabama. It extends from Bibb and Chilton Counties back through southern Greene, Hale, southern Sumter, Marengo and Choctaw Counties. Moderate to heavy rain extended over the southern quarter of Mississippi and … Continue reading
Afternoon Look at Alabama Weather: Rain Returning
Our low pressure trough/surface front is located across South and Southeast Alabama this afternoon. It got left behind by yesterday’s powerful upper trough that zipped out to the northeast. To the north, sun is prevalent from Columbus, MS to the … Continue reading
Advice for a Weather Watcher?
Matt in Altoona has his new weather station up and running and on the Weather Underground site. But he is looking for an inexpensive, reliable hosting site with good tools to help him get it on the web…can anyone help? … Continue reading
Calming Down…
A long day of watching the weather is coming to an end…our line of storms has mellowed into a couple of slow moving bands of showers. As the front has become parallel to the upper flow, it has slowed down. … Continue reading
The December 2001 Buffalo Snow Blitz
Incredible. Unprecedented. Historic. Astounding. These are adjectives used to describe an unbelieveable five day lake effect snow blitz in Buffalo in December 2001. After an unprecedented November in which no snow fell in the city, December made up for it. … Continue reading
Line Weakening…
As if on cue. the line is weakening as it approaches I-59 early this morning. We thought the system would do that as its support ran off and left it. The leading edge now extends from just west of Albertville … Continue reading
Storms Entering Jefferson/Blount
Probably the strongest segment of our slowly decaying line is entering Jefferson and about to enter Blount counties. Significant weather alert til 2 a.m. Wind gusts to 40-50 mph will accompany the line along with brief torrential rains. Not noticing … Continue reading
Update on our Line
Our line of storms is progressing across North and North Central Alabama early on this Sunday morning… It extends from Decatur to Addison to Carbon Hill to Berry to Gordo and then to Aliceville. The southern part of the line … Continue reading
