This blog is intended as a counter-point to what you may have heard lately from politicians, news media, Hollywood actors, and other “experts” on climate. The opinion expressed here is mine (Dr. Tim Coleman), and does not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company, any other writer here, nor my employer. 1. Global warming [...]

Remember this one??? “Sometimes I wonder what I’m a gonna do but there ain’t no cure for the Summertime Blues.” Summer poses a special challenge for meteorologists that work here in the Deep South. Quite frankly, we do a lousy job of handling the small scale features that bring subtle weather changes on a day [...]

I have tried to spend a little time this afternoon reviewing blog comments; I was pretty much off the grid this weekend, and busy as usual this morning with radio duties. Long time readers know the comments get a little heated during any mention of the word snow, complete with everybody from people looking for [...]

A small, EF0 tornado touched down in Chilton County very briefly late this morning north of Clanton. There was no warning for this tornado by the National Weather Service, and I wanted to take a minute here and defend them. *This small spin-up was in a tropical rain band, much like the spiral bands we [...]

The August issue of “Smithsonian” magazine came yesterday. That magazine has a long history of publishing prestigious, very interesting and educational articles. Guess what takes up seven whole pages of this month’s issue? It is a great story that starts on page 28 entitled, “River of Riches.” The subtitle says, “The Cahaba River, an unsung [...]

Check out the hundreds of images taken by our viewers and readers on our Flickr feed here. Thanks to everyone who took the time to send images to us… very helpful during the event!

One of my greatest childhood goals was being on the Cousin Cliff show for my birthday. You see, everyone loved “Cuz”… I mean come on. He showed Three Stooges movies and Popeye cartoons; he had Droodles, talked about Jack’s Hamburgers for 15 cents (that were so good, good, good), and gave away cakes from Marsh [...]

Boy, do I have a rant for the next Weather Brains episode – provided Fay doesn’t interfere with it. I’ve seen lots of changes in the weather business, many of them quite good. But when I was checking the NWS site at Tallahassee this morning, I could not help but be struck with all of [...]

With the weather across Central Alabama relatively calm with essentially no storms happening, we can turn to the realm of cell phones for some breaking news. As of about ten minutes ago, the ABC 33/40 Weather Team became the only known (at least to me) weather department in the country, perhaps the world or even [...]

Way behind on blog posts this morning as you can tell… scroll down for various picture sets and the morning weather discussion and Weather Xtreme video. I am amazed at the quality of images sent to us by our readers. Great stuff. I promised a review of the new 2.0 iPhone firmware late last week… [...]