Not much going on in the radar department this afternoon. Widely scattered storms over the northern third of the state and isolated storms over the middle third, with widespread light to moderate rain from dying storms over South Alabama. Storms were growing over northern Cullman County, centered near Good Hope. Another vigorous storm was north [...]

Rain and storms continue to increase across Shelby, northern Chilton, southwestern Talladega and Coosa Counties. The heaviest rain extends from near Jemison to Montevallo to Columbiana to south of Chelsea. More extends from Rockford to Sylacauga to Talladega. The activity is moving north northwest and will affect much of the Birmingham Metro area over the [...]

A thundershower has managed to develop with the help of today’s strong heating over West Central Alabama’s Hale County. It is near Wedgeworth a nd Sawyerville and is is drifting northwest toward the Black Warrior River and Greene County. It has a top to a little over 32,00 feet, so it is producing lightning and [...]

This will be the last update of a busy weekend. Unless there are warnings of course. Thanks to the very best weather audience in the world for reading our work. It is truly a pleasure to serve you. A solid band of heavy rain extends northeast to southwest from Randolph and Tallapoosa Counties to Washington [...]

Numerous severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings extend across eastern Arkansas into the Memphis area and up into Kentucky tonight. It is a rough night in Memphis tonight. You can see the polygons of a couple of tornado warnings over Tennessee and Kentucky (they are in red) and several severe thunderstorm (yellow) and flash flood [...]

Showers and thunderstorms are developing across Central Alabama this morning. Heavy showers and some storms developed in the last 45 minutes near Columbus MS and moved quickly into northern Pickens, Lamar, Fayette and southeastern Marion and Winston Counties in West Alabama. A decent storm was located between Brilliant, Haleyville and Natural Bridge. These storms are [...]

Lots of buzz about the Alberta Clipper that is heading our way. Could it bring another round of snow to North and Central Alabama Sunday night? The first question has been, “What is an Albert Clipper?” Well, it is a low pressure system that forms over the central provinces of Canada, and then sweeps rapidly [...]

No problems this morning across Central Alabama. Temperatures are in the lower 40s across the I-20 corridor. Across the northern third of the state, temperatures are in the 30s. It is 37F at Gadsden. The NWS Huntsville maintains a winter weather advisory for their counties. For Cullman, Lawrence, Morgan, Colbert, Lauderdale and Franklin it goes [...]

Don’t know which is the greatest converation subject today–football or snow. But this update is entirely about football. Southern California continues to enjoy sunny weather. The high this afternoon in the Pasadena area will be between 70 and 72. Tonight Alabama plays Texas for the BCS National Championship. GAME FORECAST AT THE ROSE BOWL Clear [...]

I am increasingly confident that the Thursday disturbance will bring precipitation to Alabama. There is little question that it will be cold enough for it to be snow. The question is how much moisture will be available. A first look at the morning run of the GFS is very encouraging for snow lovers, with snow [...]