Many thanks to Mr. McCormick for relaying this information at midday:
James/Jason, wanted to give you a little update here in East Alabama.
- In Randolph County, there are numerous accidents on Stae Highway 48 between Wedowee and the Georgia line and Wedowee and Lineville. There have been at least two involving eighteen wheelers that have [...]

Here is a sneak peek at the Holiday travel forecast:
Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, one of the biggest travel days of the year, will be dry over much of the country. It will be cold up north, with some snow showers in the Great Lakes area.
Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, will be dry [...]

I am now back from the 34th Int’l Conf. on Radar Meteorology in Williamsburg, Virginia. Some neat stuff there. However, I have to brag on my school…of all the colleges and labs represented, including NCAR, NASA, Univ. of Oklahoma, etc., UAH had the most presentations of any institution there! Our atmospheric science [...]

The Grand Prix of Alabama will be held April 9-11, 2010. It will be around the same dates in 2011 and 2012.
This is huge news for the state and city. It will bring over 100,000 thousand racing fans to the Barbers Motorsports Park.
Tremendous local cooperation between the city, state and Greater [...]

Skywatcher Michelle Miklik recently visited Michigan and took these fabulous pictures.
You will see the Grand Hotel and the spectacular Mackinaw Bridge between Upper and Lower Michigan.

Thanks for sharing these shots Michelle!

This fabulous article will run in this Sunday’s New York Times travel section!
Birmingham attorney and writer Jim Noles is the author!
Way to go Jim!
Way to go Magic City!

On Saturday, I had the tremendous pleasure of taking AMTRAK’s train number 20, The Crescent from New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal to Birmingham. It was a beautiful morning, cool and crisp with just a few high clouds at sunrise. The attractive terminal dates to 1954, when it consolidated the five various depots across [...]

No, they’re regular old scrambled eggs. (And likely they came out of a bag.) But they just taste better when they’re served as your roll steadily over the railroad trestles east of New Orleans over Lake Ponchartrain.

Just arrived in Hattiesburg. Train is on time. The sky has become mostly [...]

7:09 a.m. That long single whistle from the front of the train means it’s time to go for an ontime depature for AMTRAK Train Number 20, The Crescent. Two short whistles, and you feel the fifteen car consist lurch forward and slowly start to roll out of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, headed [...]

Experts tell us that the day before Thanksgiving is the busiest travel day of the year as families, relatives and friends gather for the big Thanksgiving feasts and visits. This forecast is for Wednesday only, including cities in all directions from Birmingham. (Prevailing weather and high for Wednesday)
WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF BIRMINGHAM
Jackson…partly sunny, 66
New Orleans…sunny, [...]