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Late Morning Notes….

The e-mail inbox is full of sleet reports across Central Alabama this morning; as expected, the evaporational cooling process has brought a few ice pellets and snow flakes to Alabama at the onset of the precipitation with our developing storm … Continue reading →

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Sleet Reported In West Alabama

See the ABC 33/40 Pinpoint Doppler Radar, and you can see the beginning of our rain event. Some of this precipitation is evaporating, and the cooling process through the lower column will mean sleet reports will be more common across … Continue reading →

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A Cold Rain Tonight; A Frigid Weekend

An all new edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player below, and on iTunes… No real need to change our ongoing forecast. The developing surface low in the northwest Gulf of Mexico will bring … Continue reading →

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Final Jackson NWS 1/10 Storm Survey

NWS Completes Storm Damage Surveys from January 10th Storms Jackson, MS (1/15/08) – Teams of National Weather Service meteorologists, with assistance from state and local emergency management officials, have been working since last Thursday’s damaging severe storms to record and … Continue reading →

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Cold And Unsettled Weather For Alabama

An all new edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player below, and on iTunes… Clouds will increase across Alabama during the next 12 hours in advance of a developing surface low in the Northwest … Continue reading →

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Watching The Mid-Week Storm

An all new edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player below, and on iTunes… Today will be another cool and dry day, but most of the attention will be on our mid-week storm. Not … Continue reading →

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Quick Late Night Update

I am typing this update from the ABC 33/40 studio where I am getting ready to deliver the weather segment during our 10:00 News… Just a note that the 00Z NAM is coming in a little warmer, and the 00Z … Continue reading →

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Wintry Weather Threat Ahead For North Alabama?

An all new edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player below, and on iTunes… Confidence is growing that the northern quarter of Alabama (understand, we are talking areas along and north of U.S. 278, … Continue reading →

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New Model Runs Coming In Colder

Here is a quick peek at the new 12Z run of the NAM valid at midnight Wednesday night… This would suggest a greater risk of snow or ice for the northern quarter of Alabama… lets get the other models in … Continue reading →

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Everyone Buzzing About Wednesday Night

An all new edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player below, and on iTunes… When I first came to Birmingham TV in the late 1970s as the main weather anchor for WAPI-TV (now WVTM-TV, … Continue reading →

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