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A Visit To Alabama
Thanks to our friends Marco and Corinna who are visiting Alabama from Germany. The both love weather, and shared these pictures. They write: “Hello James Spann, thank you for your answer mail. We arrived last Friday in Birmingham (see picture) … Continue reading
Fire In The Summer Sky
Thanks to Stephen Pritchett for these shots taken near Warrior tonight around 8:30…
From Shelby County…
Thanks to ABC 33/40 Skywatcher Will Roe for these images… he writes: “James, This small thunderstorm developed along Hwy 280 near Vandiver and over into Vincent, moved NNW just missing my area. I did get a few drops of rain, … Continue reading
Watching The Radar
An all new edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player below, and on iTunes… Trying to forecast convection on a summer day in Alabama is always a challenge… after a slow start we are … Continue reading
Summer Showers
An all new edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player below, and on iTunes… How many ways can we can “scattered showers and thunderstorms”? Those words will be in our forecast for the foreseeable … Continue reading
The Dreaded P.O.P.
Long time readers know my dislike for the “probability of precipitation” parameter used by the National Weather Service, and some other private agencies. Very few people understand it, and it only leads to forecast confusion. Here is an e-mail I … Continue reading
The 2007 Summer Intern Lunch
As a way of saying “thank you ” to our underpaid summer interns, we take them on a lunch adventure every year on Alabama roads less traveled. Today we wound up at Jim’s Pit BBQ near Billingsley, which is between … Continue reading
Hit And Miss Showers And Storms
An all new edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player below, and on iTunes… Not much of a way to win in the forecasting department this time of the year. Today is a great … Continue reading
62 Degrees On A Late July Afternoon
Check it out for yourself on the ABC 33/40 Skycam in Gadsden here. Our thermometer there is showing 62 degrees shortly after 2:00 with a steady rain falling. The rain total is 1.39″ as I write this. Not many July … Continue reading
Early Afternoon In Alabama
After a massive feast we are back on the road headed back to the weather office… NWS Birmingham has issued a significant weather alert for Pickens County… storms are growing stronger over West Alabama, and the storm southwest of Reform … Continue reading
