“If your time to you Is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin’ Or you’ll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin’.” – Bob Dylan After spending some time last week at the American Meteorological Society annual conference on broadcast meteorology last week in Nashville, I sense fear among some long time […]
Over the course of the afternoon, the heaviest rain has been over eastern areas of the state. Currently portions of Randolph, Clay, Cleburne, Calhoun and Cherokee Counties are experience the more intense rain. These areas have seen several inches of rain today and several areal flood advisories are in effect. The rain has tapered off […]
A quick radar check this afternoon shows once again, heavy rain falling across portions of Alabama. Today the more intense activity is across eastern portions of the state, especially areas east of Interstate 65. Areas along U.S. Highways 280 and 431 are being impacted as well. Some of the counties seeing the more intense rain […]
Here is a great description and graphic put together by the National Weather Service showing some of the rainfall totals that have been received across the state this week. Description: Here’s the latest 4 day rainfall totals across the State of Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. Keep in mind the rainfall contours represent estimates, not […]
A trough over the eastern sections of the country continues to allow an upper-level low to sit in spin over portions of the Mid-Mississippi Valley. The Bermuda High off the East Coast is strengthening. The wind field between them has allowed a plume of moist air to develop. This highway of moisture has entrenched itself […]
The high on Friday was 75F at the Shuttlesworth Birmingham International Airport. It was only the 81st time in 113 years that a July day didn’t get out of the 70s. It also made two straight days with highs in the 70s. If we don’t make it to 80F today, which is a pretty good […]
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. The cool and wet pattern that Central Alabama has seen for the last several days will continue today, but […]
For this event, it has been all about where the heavy rainbands have set up. If you were under one, you could see 1 to 2 inches of rain per hour. Just outside them, you might get a tenth of an inch. So it has ben generally feast or famine. The Birmingham Airport has seen […]
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.
