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Big Time Cold Ahead For The U.S.

The Friday afternoon edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player below, and on iTunes: A reader in Texas sent me a copy of the forecast discussion from our friends at the NWS in Norman, … Continue reading →

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Into The Deep Freeze Sunday

The Friday morning edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player below, and on iTunes: This will be challenging but fun series of weeks in the ole weather office. The coldest air the nation has … Continue reading →

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Riding The Arctic Express

The Thursday afternoon ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player below, and on iTunes: This has always been a high traffic blog, but the events in the last week have pushed our number of page views to … Continue reading →

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Interesting Times Ahead

The Thursday morning edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player below, and on iTunes: The period of very cold weather with winter storm threats for parts of the Deep South, something we have been … Continue reading →

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Some Very Cold Days Ahead

The Wednesday afternoon edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player below, and also on iTunes: Much of the U.S. is about to go into a very cold period, and for some this will be … Continue reading →

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A Very Cold And Active Pattern Ahead

The Wednesday morning ABC 33/40 Weather Extreme Video is available in the player below, and on iTunes: All of the big buzz and speculation in coming weeks will be over winter storm threats, but the one thing for certain is … Continue reading →

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2007 Alabama Severe Weather DVD Ready

Our brand new 2007 Alabama Severe Weather DVD is ready. You can pick up your free copy at our sponsor locations across Alabama listed here. On this year’s DVD we look back at “Ten Years of Alabama Weather”. Some historic … Continue reading →

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Cold And Colder

The Tuesday afternoon edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player below, and on iTunes: Today is yet another example of just how bad the MOS (model output statistics) have been lately. The models figured … Continue reading →

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Historic Cold Setting Up For Early February?

The Tuesday morning ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player below, and on iTunes: The model trends are clear… the GFS and the ECMWF are pointing to a period of harshly cold weather for much of the … Continue reading →

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WeatherBrains Episode 52

The 52nd episode of our weekly netcast, WeatherBrains, is available on the web, and on iTunes… In this week’s episode: -James Spann’s global warming controversy with Dr. Heidi Cullen of The Weather Channel: – “Being careful with words” — What … Continue reading →

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