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An Improbable Forecast

An Improbable Forecast

| March 19, 2010 @ 11:31 pm | Reply

The Californian had little experience with forecasting Midwestern weather. He had been at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma less than three weeks. When World War II broke out, he left his classes at Occidental College where he was enrolled, and enlisted in the Army Air Corps. He ended up in the weather forecaster school […]

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Anatomy of a (Big!) Change

Anatomy of a (Big!) Change

| March 19, 2010 @ 9:29 pm | 1 Reply

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 […]

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One Way To Enjoy A Beautiful Alabama Day

One Way To Enjoy A Beautiful Alabama Day

| March 19, 2010 @ 8:27 pm | 1 Reply

Okay, so I’m guilty. I took about half an hour to play hooky while working in Shelby county this afternoon. It all started when I looked up and saw a glider, gracefully and elegantly sailing along, with central Alabama’s gorgeous deep blue sky as the backdrop. I knew that whomever was at the controls of […]

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New Satellite in Orbit

New Satellite in Orbit

| March 19, 2010 @ 6:06 pm | Reply

Twelve days after a perfect launch, NASA and NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P (GOES-P) reached its proper orbit. This action triggers the renaming of the satellite to GOES-15. The latest weather satellite will complete its checkout in mid August 2010 and be stored in-orbit, ready for activation should one of the operational GOES satellites degrade […]

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Sunshine On My Shoulders

Sunshine On My Shoulders

| March 19, 2010 @ 2:08 pm | 4 Replies

An all new 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. OK… I know… I said no more cheesy song lyrics. But, maybe just one more… any John Denver fans out there? “Sunshine on my shoulders […]

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Sunrise At The Beach

Sunrise At The Beach

| March 19, 2010 @ 7:06 am | 1 Reply

Thanks to Michael Davis for this image of the sun coming up at Orange Beach this morning…

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Blue Skies

Blue Skies

| March 19, 2010 @ 6:06 am | 3 Replies

An all new 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. OK… I promise… the last lyrics I will use this week. This is a song written by the great Irving Berlin. Willie Nelson did a […]

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