February 2nd is Candlemas Day. It is the traditional midpoint of winter. By early February, Alabama is beginning to really feel the move toward spring. Days are lengthening and average temperatures are slowing warming as the amount of sunshine increases each day. At the beginning of the month, the average high and low for Birmingham […]
The latest edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme Video is available in the player below. You can subscribe to the Weather Xtreme Video on iTunes by clicking here. Clouds were holding tough across much of Alabama this morning, but I do believe we’ll see the sun later today. However, with a nice band of […]
Thanks to David Baxley, Chief Meteorologist for KSWO-TV in Lawton, Oklahoma, for these images. He writes: “Hey James & JB! Here are a few pictures you can share if you’d like. Thousands of folks are still without power in southwest Oklahoma alone. For a time, 50,000 people were in the dark just in the city […]
Over half of the Netherlands lies below sea level. Dikes have been built to protect large areas of land from the sea. On this date in 1953, the Netherlands experienced its worst flood disaster in five centuries as a furious storm attacked the North Dutch Coast, with the greatest surge on record for the North […]
Did you know that icy road accidents kill more people each year than all other weather hazards combined, except for heat? Black ice is one of the biggest contributors to that toll each year. Black ice occurs when water freezes on roads in patchs of nearly invisible ice that can cause drivers to lose control […]
A few reports of snow flurries are coming in from across North Central Alabama this evening. Some reports from our Skywatchers… …Jeff Drake…Bessemer…cars and decks lightly dusted …Adam Wiggins …Odenville…flurries…31F…sticking on back porch …Donny F…north of Fayette…flurries …Ronald Hughes…Coker…light snow flurries continuing …Grady Evans…snow reported in Fayette …Richard Viola in Pleasant Grove was reporting snow […]
Thanks to ABC 33/40 Skywatcher Vic Bell for these images… he writes: “Fun in the snow in Edmond, OK couertesy of Christie Davis”
Temperatures have been falling steadily across Alabama this afternoon as air moves into the state coming over the snow and ice pack just to the north over Tennessee and Arkansas. Birmingham, Calera, and Tuscaloosa are reporting 33 degrees at 4:00, with a number of our Skywatchers in those areas now at or just below freezing. […]
Thanks to T.J. Malone for these images… he writes: “Hey everyone, Here are some pictures of the snow from here in Bowling Green, KY. Got about 5 inches. Enjoy! TJ”
Area radars still indicate light drizzle or snow flurries falling across much of northern and central Alabama, and that will continue through early evening. The cold air is coming in on NW winds. Current temperartures include BHM 36, Jasper 34, Haleyville 27, TCL 34, Millport 31, Cullman 28, Gadsden 37, Anniston 43. So, temperatures are […]
Temperatures are slowly falling across North and Central Alabama at this hour. The graphic gives a rough approximation of the freezing line at this hour. It was 30F with light freezing rain at last report at Decatur. As temperatures fall to freezing, any light drizzle or light rain that falls will create a light craze […]
The latest edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme Video is available in the player below. You can subscribe to the Weather Xtreme Video on iTunes by clicking here. What a night and what a storm! It looks like the weather happenings across the Southeast are beginning to wind down. Clouds will hang tough across […]
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 […]
A swarm of tornadoes ripped across parts of Alabama on January 18, 1936. Four people died as an F2 tornado passed from near Fyffe to near Rainsville in DeKalb County, killing four people. Another twister touched down near Columbiana. One person died from a tornado in Dale County. The activity was ahead of a powerful […]
Our long time friend, mentor, and charter Weather Factory member, J.B. Elliott, passed away on May 11, 2015. Click HERE to read James' tribute.
