Author Archives: Ryan Stinnet
Stormy Morning
The bulk of the severe weather is now making its way into our area. Numerous power outages in our western counties where a severe thunderstorm warnings are in place. Getting reports of widespread wind damage from Fayette and Lamar Counties. … Continue reading
Severe Weather Along the Mississippi
Severe weather outbreak ongoing to our west. Numerous tornado(red), severe thunderstorm(yellow) and flash flood(green) warnings across the Mississippi Valley. Severe storms now approaching the Mississippi River and will continue to move east. Still several hours away from Alabama, but these … Continue reading
Radar Check
A quick look at the radar this evening, we continue to see widespread severe weather to our west. A few showers have developed over Central Alabama this evening, but our real attention remains focused to the west, where a very … Continue reading
Tonight into Tomorrow
A few clouds and a few sprinkles have popped up on the radar tonight. Nothing of significance. As we look at the surface map heading through the overnight hours, high pressure will be settling into Eastern Ohio. Luckily, we are … Continue reading
Being Negative Can Put You in the Cold
If you were paying any attention to the weather this week, you would have noticed the bitterly cold arctic air that impacted portions of the Northern U.S. Temperatures were so cold and some areas that school had to be cancelled. … Continue reading
World of Tropics
Even though we are in the dead of winter with no tropical activity in the Northern Pacific or Atlantic, the tropics south of the Equator are a little more active. Tropical storm Gerry in the South Pacific continues to track … Continue reading
Bitterly Cold to our North
While it has been a nice day across the Southeast with many areas into the 60s, many areas in the Midwest are experiencing bitterly cold temperatures. A quick look this afternoon at some surface observations show sub-freezing temperatures from Montana … Continue reading
Here Comes the Cold
A quick look at the forecast for tomorrow, a cold front on the leading edge of the bitterly cold arctic air will be diving south across the eastern half of the U.S. This is a dry front and we are … Continue reading
Sunny Afternoon
It is hard to get better weather than this for the middle of January. After the past week’s cloudy and wet conditions, we are having another sunny day across Alabama. This is just one of several in a string of … Continue reading
Snow Coming and Going
Heaviest bands of snow now making it into the Birmingham Metro. Should see several hours of heavy snow fall across much of the city. Seen some pretty descent accumulations from our western counties and that should be the norm for … Continue reading
