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Confidence High In Snow Forecast

An all new edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player below, and on iTunes… Thanks to all of you who have been reading along with us and making comments today; we have shattered our … Continue reading →

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Snow Map

This is our snow potential map from yesterday and last night if you missed it… it is looking right on target now….

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Winter Storm Watch Expanded

NOTE: This update from our friends down at the NWS in Calera now jives up nicely with our axis of heavier snow from Livingston to Clanton to Roanoke. We are all on the same page…. WUS44 KBMX 181811 WSWBMX URGENT … Continue reading →

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Midday Update

Back from a great trip out to Oak Grove… be sure and watch for those kids on ABC 33/40 News today at 5:00 on the KIDCAM! I will have the full discussion and Weather Xtreme video posted by 3:30… but … Continue reading →

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8:00 Report

Time to look out the window… below is the developing rain shield over Texas… right on schedule. And, the 12Z NAM is running now; at first glance I don’t see much of a need to change our ongoing forecast (read … Continue reading →

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Watching For A Winter Storm

An all new edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player below, and on iTunes… As you can see from the overnight posts and comments, there is little sleep on these days among meteorologists, and … Continue reading →

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Watch Update

Looks like the watch won’t be issued until after midnight now… NWS Birmingham alerted us at 9:40 (via our Instant Message conference) a winter storm watch was going up, most likely by 10:00, so we could include it on the … Continue reading →

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Winter Storm Watch About To Be Issued

NWS in Birmingham is about to issue a winter storm watch for a good part of North and Central Alabama… we will post it here when they are finished with it…..

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Our Snow Projection

In response to a number of requests, this is basically the graphic we have been showing on ABC 33/40 for snow potential… this simply is a graphic form of the written forecast we made this morning…

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New Model Data Rolling In

The 00Z NAM is out… no real change. This is the output valid for 6:00 a.m. Saturday Our projection of the heaviest snow axis along a line from Livingston to Clanton to Roanoke still looks very good… Models trends are … Continue reading →

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