Author Archives: Scott Brown
Flash Flood Watch Issued For Northern Parts Of Central Alabama Until 7 AM Thursday
The National Weather Service in Birmingham has issued a FLASH FLOOD WATCH for Blount, Cherokee, Etowah, Fayette, Lamar, Marion, Walker, Winston till 7:00 AM CDT Thursday. Continue reading
Relatively Quiet For Now, Storms Likely Later On: It’s The Midday Nowcast For Central AL
At this point, radar is pretty quiet throughout Central Alabama. Only a few spotty showers are showing up over parts of Cullman and Winston counties, along with a couple over northern Hale and southern Tuscaloosa counties. Continue reading
Free Online Basic SKYWARN Storm Spotter Training Coming Next Week
Want to learn more about severe weather safety and storm spotting from the comfort of your own home? Well, it’s just over a week away from the first Online SKYWARN Storm Spotter class of the fall season from NWS Birmingham. The class is FREE & there’s no need to register! Continue reading
Showers & Storms Firing Up: It’s The Midday Nowcast For Central AL
As we have hit the 11:00 am hour in Central Alabama on this first Monday of fall, we have showers and a few embedded thunderstorms forming mainly over the southwestern parts of the area (Greene, Hale, and Sumter counties), with a few more scattered showers over the western parts of Walker and southern parts of Winston county. Continue reading
Hot With Isolated To Scattered Showers/Storms Through The Weekend
We are starting off the morning with a good bit of clear skies across the state, with only a few clouds over the western locations… and radar shows a clean slate at the moment, but I have a feeling we’ll see some scattered activity later this afternoon. Continue reading
A Quick Check On Our Weather At 1:40 PM
We have a fair bit of scattered shower activity over the eastern half of the area while nearly all of the western half of Central Alabama is dry at this point. Continue reading
Wow It’s Hot! It’s The Midday Nowcast For Central Alabama
The Heat Miser and Mother Nature continue to keep us in an extremely hot weather pattern today, and as you can see by the image above, temperatures are already well up into the 90s across Central Alabama, and for much of the rest of the state as well. Continue reading
The Midday Nowcast: Is Mother Nature Just Not A Fan Of All Things Fall?
Boy, it’s a hot and steamy one outside already, and it’s only 11:30! Temperatures are currently in the upper 80s to the lower 90s and we still haven’t hit the peak of daytime heating. Continue reading
It’s Mid-September & It Still Feels Like Mid-July At Midday
Skies across Central Alabama as we have hit the lunch-time hour on the final Monday of summer are mostly clear allowing plenty of sunshine to reach the surface and offering very little in relief from the heat. Continue reading
A Quick Mid-Afternoon Update On Weakening Hurricane Florence
As of 2:00 pm ET: While Florence has weakened to a weak category one hurricane, life-threatening storm surges and hurricane-force wind gusts continue to batter the Carolina coastline, along with torrential tropical downpours that could soon lead to catastrophic freshwater flooding over portions of the Carolinas. Continue reading
