The following statement came from the National Weather Service office at the Shelby County Airport this morning. We are about halfway through Summer, and since June we’ve seen some fairly hot weather – and the statistics just prove what we already knew. -Brian- PNSBMX ALZ011>015-017>050-020000- PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 734 AM [...]

CONCORD, N.H. – First the Old Man, now the Big Wind. New Hampshire’s Mount Washington has lost its distinction as the site of the fastest wind gust ever recorded on Earth, officials at the Mount Washington Observatory said Tuesday. The concession came three days after the World Meteorological Organization posted a snippet on its Web [...]

As of 10 AM today, the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Airport had recorded 71.67″ (unofficially) for the year. It’s unofficial because the NWS climate report has not come out for the day; once that comes out, we will be “official.” So, where does that rank us in Birmingham’s wettest years? This year was the fourth-wettest on record since [...]

As of December 26, 2009, with only five days left in the month and the year, the official observing site at the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Airport has recorded 71.49 inches of rain. That places 2009 as the 4th wettest year on record since 1900. Here are the top five wettest years as reported by the National Weather [...]

It appears that the Birmingham airport received 0.52 inches of rain – just a tad over half an inch. That together with the 4.81 we’ve had throughout the month gives us a monthly total of 5.33 inches. That makes November, 2009, the 21st wettest November on record in Birmingham since 1900. A little behind the [...]

I feel like one of those television commentators covering the election – October, 2009, will come in as the 4th wettest October on record! Only this is just climatological records. Through October 30th, the Birmingham International Airport had recorded 7.50 inches of rain. Since midnight there has been 2 tenths of an inch of rain. [...]

The Birmingham airport reported 16 hundredths of an inch of rain yesterday which brings the October rainfall total to 6.72 inches. That rain moves October, 2009, into the top ten wettest Octobers in Birmingham – actually into the eighth spot! Interesting to see two months back-to-back so wet. Additional rain is in the forecast before [...]

According to the National Weather Service (NWS) climate data for the Birmingham Airport, there has been 6.24 inches of rain recorded through the 15th of the month. That total puts October, 2009, as the 10th wettest month in Birmingham history. Here is a table of the top 10 wettest Octobers since 1900. Four of these [...]

October is, according to climatological records, the driest month in Central Alabama. But September was the third wettest September on record and that wet trend has spilled over into October. The Birmingham International Airport, official site for weather records in this area, had 5.57 inches of rain for October as of midnight. Since midnight, an [...]

September, 2009, is going in the record books as the third wettest September since 1900 – bronze! Nearly an inch of rain fell at the official recording site in Birmingham yesterday (0.91″) placing the monthly rainfall total at 10.69 inches (see table below). But we also got a Gold since this September is the wettest [...]