LATE NOTE Brian Peters reports 0.72 inches of rain in 15 minutes in Helena as of 9:28. ORIGINAL POST Showers and thunderstorms continue across parts of Central Alabama tonight. They are still fairly strong across Shelby County from Montevallo to Columbiana. These storms are moving northwestward across Shelby County and will reach southern Jefferson County […]
Regional radars re busy this afternoon, especially west of I-65, which the mesoscale models accurately predicted. Showers and storms were most numerous west of a line from Jasper to Selma just before 2 p.m. and heaviest and most concentrated over Lamar, Marion, Fayette and northern Tuscaloosa Counties. East of I-65, activity was more scattered, but […]
Heat wave deaths were soaring nationally on this date in 1980. The national death toll stood at 495. Alabama was no exception as a powerful heat wave held much of the country in its grips. Birmingham’s Mayor Richard Arrington called for emergency relief. The mayor declared a state of emergency in Birmingham. The apartments of […]
An upper low between Kansas City and Little Rock is bringing showers and storms to the Central and Southern Plains this morning, where they can use the rain. The Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex is receiving welcome showers this morning, although the amounts are generally light. After fice straight days of 100+ readings at DFW, today’s high […]
Clouds are thick across much of Alabama on this Sunday morning. The only exception is the coastal counties of Mobile and Baldwin, up into Washington County. Gulf and Atlantic moisture is flowing into Atlanta in the flow between a big surface high east of Washington DC and a weak surface low in the Gulf of […]
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. It’s looking like another one of those unusually cool and wet July days for Central Alabama with showers and […]
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