Category: Winter

Just Before High Noon in Alabama

22 March, 2010 (11:56) | Forecast Discussion, Winter | 1 comment

The North Alabama precipitation has shifted more to the east. At 11:55 am, very little over the NW and West counties. Most of the radar return is along a north-south line from Huntsville to Birmingham and east to the Georgia border. Moving east. * Malinda, in Eva (Morgan County) reported 33 degrees lots of “huge [...]

Alabama at 10:45 am Monday

22 March, 2010 (10:50) | Winter | 8 comments

It is a cloudy cold morning across Alabama–a 180 degeree turn-around from Friday and Saturday Weather. At 10:30 am, radar indicated a solid area of precipitation from about the Tuscaloosa-Birmingham area northward to the Tennessee Valley. In the winter mosaic setting, radar indicates wintry precipitation over the NE corner of Alabama. However, it is likely [...]

Late March Snow

22 March, 2010 (06:48) | Pictures, Winter | 16 comments

The first image below is from our Cheaha SKYCAM… the park has a light covering of snow this morning with a temperature of 31 degrees. And, below that is a shot of the show falling earlier this morning from our Skywatcher in Bear Creek, Alan Hemsley…

Quick Reports From TX/OK/AR

21 March, 2010 (10:24) | Winter | 18 comments

Snow reports…. TEXAS …8 inches in Plano, which is a Dallas suburb. …1.3 inches at DFW through 7 a.m. They haven’t had any since. The all time record for a March snow at Dallas is 1.6 inches in 1971. OKLAHOMA ..Heavy snow continues over eastern Oklahoma …7 inches at Muskogee…heavy snow still reported …8 inches [...]

Snow Flakes Ahead?

20 March, 2010 (18:08) | Winter | 16 comments

The output below is from the RPM, valid at 5:00 a.m. Monday: Yep, the blue represents snow, and it shows up over much of North Alabama. No doubt with very cold air aloft, snow flakes will be found somewhere around here late tomorrow night into Monday morning. But, with the warm ground and surface temperatures [...]

Anatomy of a (Big!) Change

19 March, 2010 (21:29) | Winter | 1 comment

First: I love David Black’s post! (Scroll down) OKLAHOMA CITY High today 72 High in Tulsa 74 Oklahoma City at 8 pm…50, thunderstorm, wind north gusts 41 Gage, Okla.,…32 cloudy, north 30, wind chill 21 Saturday in Oklahoma City…windy with snow and blowing snow, snow heavy at times, high near freezing, Heavy snow continuing Saturday [...]

When To Plant?

17 March, 2010 (11:05) | Winter | 5 comments

I get many questions just like this one that came in this morning… “When will it finally be safe to start planting flowers and doing landscaping projects without fear of cold temps killing the plants at night? A rough estimate is fine.” First off, there isn’t much skill in a specific forecast beyond seven days, [...]

March In Alabama

4 March, 2010 (06:43) | Pictures, Winter | 3 comments

I captured this image from our Cheaha SKYCAM around 6:30 this morning… kind of sums up the type winter we have been dealing with…

Watch For Patchy Ice…

2 March, 2010 (19:55) | Winter | No comments

WWUS84 KBMX 030155 SPSBMX SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 755 PM CST TUE MAR 2 2010 ALZ017>021-024>029-031500- BLOUNT-ETOWAH-CALHOUN-CHEROKEE-CLEBURNE-JEFFERSON-SHELBY- ST. CLAIR-TALLADEGA-CLAY-RANDOLPH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…ONEONTA…GADSDEN…ANNISTON…CENTRE… HEFLIN…BIRMINGHAM…HOOVER…COLUMBIANA…PELHAM…ALABASTER… PELL CITY…MOODY…TALLADEGA…SYLACAUGA…ASHLAND…ROANOKE 755 PM CST TUE MAR 2 2010 …SLICK SPOTS POSSIBLE ON AREA ROADWAYS TONIGHT AND EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING… DUE TO THE RAIN AND SNOWFALL ON [...]

More Reports . . .

2 March, 2010 (11:47) | Winter | 9 comments

* Muscadine…snow has stopped for the moment and melting is underway. Temperature 33. Estimated one inch on the ground. * Heflin had no snow whatsoever to stick. * Mike Mcalloway, 33/40 Skywatcher in Weaver reports one inch on the ground * Wynnville, Blount County, snow has stopped and roads looking better. * Collinsville Fire department [...]