September 8, 1979 was a Saturday, and a busy one for me. It was moving day; I was moving from Montgomery to an apartment off Valley Avenue in Birmingham, in preparation for a new job. Lots of emotions; sad over leaving Montgomery, where life was simple and easy, excitement about working as a lead weather [...]

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT…SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
509 AM CDT WED MAY 06 2009
.TIME… …EVENT… …CITY LOCATION… …LAT.LON
.DATE… ….MAG…. ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. …SOURCE.
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BULLETIN
HURRICANE GUSTAV ADVISORY NUMBER 22
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL072008
500 AM EDT SAT AUG 30 2008
…GUSTAV RAPIDLY STRENGTHENING AS IT TAKES AIM ON WESTERN CUBA…
AT 500 AM EDT…0900 UTC…THE GOVERNMENT OF JAMAICA HAS
DISCONTINUED THE TROPICAL STORM WARNING FOR JAMAICA.
A HURRICANE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE CAYMAN ISLANDS…AND
FOR THE WESTERN CUBAN [...]

Sure was nice to look at yesterday’s Birmingham News and not reading stories about “Storm Porn” or “global warming” for a change.
What a great piece by Bob Carlton on Cousin Cliff. Read it here.
I always wanted to be on Cliff’s show when I was a kid, but he was always booked up on my [...]

From May 1978….

WAPI-TV (Channel 13) bought a color receiver for the National Weather Service WSR-57 S Band radar at Centreville, and put it on the air in May of 1978. The primary weather anchor for Channel 13 at the time was Rosemary Lucas; I would take the job a year later, in September 1979. My [...]

Things have been so busy here in recent days… I have failed to note the passing of two long time TV meteorologists… both were real legends in our business.
Dick Fletcher from Tampa
Gary Shore from Iowa (best known for his work in Tulsa)
I first met Dick at a workshop at Mississippi State about 15 years ago… [...]