North Alabama remains quiet as a mouse, while showers have formed to the south… See the surface chart below… the cold front is past Memphis, and around here dew points in the 60s are now as far north as Huntsville… There is very little surface based instability over North Alabama… so the higher SCP values […]
Scroll down and see the upper air sounding from the Shelby County Airport, and you can see the capping inversion, which prevents parcels from rising into showers and storms, is still hanging tough, and radars are very quiet tonight. With dynamic forcing getting clouds, a band of broken showers and storms is expected to form […]
This is the new upper air sounding just in from the Shelby County Airport… As you can see the atmosphere remains strongly capped with a good bit of convective inhibition, thus the reason for the quiet radars tonight. We also note that other severe weather parameters are rather unimpressive. But, the atmosphere can, and will […]
Tonight I am asking prayers for my long time friend and associate Bill Murray. Many of you know and appreciate his work here on the blog; he puts in long, tireless hours during active weather. He has a passion for weather like few have. Bill’s 25 year old son Will died this morning. I know […]
The atmosphere across Alabama remains capped, and there are no showers or storms around the state this evening. Below is the current instability, in the form of surface based CAPE. Note just moderate values now that the sun is down… generally under 500 j/kg over North-Central Alabama. But, note the supercell composite index below is […]
An all new edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player on the right sidebar of the blog. You can subscribe to the Weather Xtreme video on iTunes by clicking here. TOO WARM FOR FEBRUARY: How about these mid-afternoon observations around Alabama…. Tuscaloosa 81 Muscle Shoals 81 Montgomery 78 Birmingham […]
Below is a look at the current weather situation across Alabama at the lunch hour… Note that Tuscaloosa and Montgomery have soared to 75 degrees, with 73 at Anniston and Birmingham. We need to get to the low 80s today to reach record levels… I doubt if it gets that warm, but we are close. […]
An all new edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player on the right sidebar of the blog. You can subscribe to the Weather Xtreme video on iTunes by clicking here. WARM FEBRUARY DAY: We are forecasting a high of 76 degrees today…which is within 6 degrees of the record […]
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.
