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Mid-Morning Notes
About to be “off the grid” for a couple of hours, doing a weather program this morning at Crestline Elementary in Mountain Brook, followed by a lunch meeting with some of the guys from The Weather Company, including my boss … Continue reading
West Alabama Power Outages
About 16,000 Alabama Power customers are without service this morning over parts of Tuscaloosa and Pickens Counties, in the general area from Northport to Reform. Sources from the power company tell us the outage is the result of a transmission … Continue reading
Snow Tomorrow, Then Arctic Cold
An all new edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player below. You can subscribe to the Weather Xtreme video on iTunes by clicking here. RIGHT NOW: I see some single digit temps out there… … Continue reading
Tuesday Night In The Wx Office
Sitting back tonight watching the 00Z upper air data rolling in, watching our storm get its act together up north, and to a lesser degree, watching the 00Z computer models rolling in. At this phase of the game, I like … Continue reading
More Historical Perspective On The Cold
From the Birmingham NWS: NOUS44 KBMX 052009 PNSBMX ALZ011>015-017>050-060315- PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 210 PM CST TUE JAN 5 2010 …UNUSUAL COLD WEATHER FOR CENTRAL ALABAMA… THE UNUSUALLY COLD TEMPERATURES ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA WILL CONTINUE THROUGH … Continue reading
Alabama’s Frozen Tundra
Thanks to Kevin Garner for these images… he writes: “Hello James, hope you are toasty and warm. I just got back from one of the most awesome hikes i’ve ever taken. Mother nature @ her finest, just not her warmest. … Continue reading
Snow On Thursday; Then Bitter Cold
An all new edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player below. You can subscribe to the Weather Xtreme video on iTunes by clicking here. Since we are getting close to a snow event for … Continue reading
Late Morning Update
After a peek at the 12Z models, looks like our snow forecast for Thursday is pretty much on track. Not much change since this morning… We note the morning runs were a little more aggressive with the moisture, but we … Continue reading
Some Snow Thursday; Bitter Cold Friday/Saturday
An all new edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player below. You can subscribe to the Weather Xtreme video on iTunes by clicking here. WATCH THAT VIDEO! I have drawn our first snow accumulation … Continue reading
Monday Night Notes
Busy as a bee tonight looking at new data, getting ready for the 10:00 TV News on ABC 33/40, and getting set for our first snow accumulation forecast map, which we will release with the early morning discussion tomorrow. Scroll … Continue reading
