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Biggest Full Moon in Last 15 Years – Tonight!
The full moon tonight will be a perigee, meaning it is at is closest point in its elliptical orbit around the Earth. It will be closer than it has been in the last 15 years and it will not be … Continue reading
Mid-Evening Update
Scanning the wires for information just after 9 o’clock hour tonight…and there really is nothing to report. The radar is quiet. A few snow flurries out there. Vic Bell up at Scrougeout in NE Etowah County reports pretty good flurries … Continue reading
Disappointed…
My first snow disappointment came around 1967 when the mean forecasters at the Weather Bureau in Birmingham conspired with broadcasters like Joe Rumore to get my hopes up about that white, cold foregn substance someone called snow. I awakened the … Continue reading
Alabama Update – 7 p.m.
It will go down as a historic snow across parts of Southeast Texas, southern Louisiana and South Central Mississippi. The culprit…a potent little upper air low and its associated cold air aloft that lowered the temperature in the atmospheric column … Continue reading
Mississippi Reports
The snowfall sweepstakes winner so far seems to be the area southeast of Brookhaven in Central Mississippi, about 60 miles south of Jackson where 6 to 10 inches of snow has fallen. From the NWS Jackson… PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL … Continue reading
Hammond LA Snow
Hammond is at the intersection of I-55 and I-12 in Louisiana, between Baton Rouge and Covington, or between New Orleans and Jackson. Here are some pictures that Trey Nolen forwarded to us this morning from there.
New Orleans Snow
Many thanks to Cheryl Bourn for these pictures from The Big Easy… These pictures were taken in the Garden District of New Orleans around 9:30 a.m. It snowed from around 8:15 a.m. until 10. It changed to light rain and … Continue reading
Warnings Check…12:30 a.m.
Tornado warning for Cullman County until 1245 a.m. Circulation some 17 miles SW of Cullman. Moving NE at 50 mph. Tornado warning for Fayette and Walker Counties til 1 a.m. Potnetially tornadic storm near Berry. It will move northeast is … Continue reading
Tornado Warning for Cullman County
Tornado warning has been issued for Cullman County until 1245 a.m. Circulation indicated by radar near Wilburn or about 10 miles northeast ofJasper. It is moving into Cullman County in the general direction of Cullman, Good Hope and Dodge City.
Tornado Watch Extended East
The National Weather Service has extended the tornado watch across Central Alabama to include part of the Birmingham area…it now includes Blount, Jefferson and Shelby counties until 3 p.m. The watch continues for Bibb, Dallas, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Marengo, Perry, … Continue reading
