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Archive for March, 2014

Delightful Spring Weather

Delightful Spring Weather

| March 31, 2014 @ 3:38 pm

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. BIG WARM-UP: After a frosty morning with lows mostly in the 30s, we are in the 70s at mid-afternoon […]

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Weather Radio Programming

Weather Radio Programming

| March 31, 2014 @ 7:20 am

The ABC 3340 Weather Team will be helping folks program their weather radios this coming Wednesday at the Academy Sports in Trussville from 3:30 to 6:30 pm. If you have a weather radio – or need to purchase a new weather radio – and you want to be sure it is programmed correctly, we can […]

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March Goes Out Like A Lamb

March Goes Out Like A Lamb

| March 31, 2014 @ 6:17 am

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. COLD START: Some North Alabama communities are dealing with a freeze, or at least some frost this morning. Some […]

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Long Streak May End This Week

Long Streak May End This Week

| March 30, 2014 @ 7:17 pm

Everybody is always watching for the longest winning streak or longest losing streak in various sports, and while weather is not a sport, it’s always interesting to see when some sort of weather streak is underway. Things like days since the last rain or days since the last tornado or number of days with highs […]

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A Nice Sunday Afternoon

A Nice Sunday Afternoon

| March 30, 2014 @ 1:40 pm

A nice looking Sunday is in progress across Central Alabama. A few low stratocu clouds hung around Northeast Alabama through the overnight and into the early morning hours, but they quickly dissipated after sunrise leaving bright blue skies for everyone. Temperatures hovered around 40F this morning. It was 37F in Tuscaloosa, 40F in Birmingham and […]

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Sunshine Returns

Sunshine Returns

| March 30, 2014 @ 7:28 am

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. While the clouds were breaking up yesterday afternoon giving most spots a few peeks at the sun, today will […]

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Continued Clearing, Much Cooler Overnight

Continued Clearing, Much Cooler Overnight

| March 29, 2014 @ 8:47 pm

Most areas of the state were finally able to see a fair amount of sunshine late this afternoon, after having mostly cloudy conditions for most of the day. The cloud cover that is still present late this evening, will continue to move out of the area overnight. It would be nice to see the cloud […]

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Trouble in Paradise

Trouble in Paradise

| March 29, 2014 @ 4:04 pm

Something you don’t see everyday… A severe thunderstorm warning in Hawaii. The NWS Honolulu issued only four severe thunderstorm warnings last year and no tornado warnings. BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 1055 AM HST SAT MAR 29 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HONOLULU HAS ISSUED A […]

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Cool, Breezy, Slow Clearing

Cool, Breezy, Slow Clearing

| March 29, 2014 @ 2:35 pm

The weather is improving across much of Alabama as we head through the rest of the afternoon. We are slowly beginning to see the clouds move out of the area and sunshine is returning. Most areas will see mostly sunny conditions before the sun sets this evening, and we expect clear skies overnight. Our temperatures […]

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Possible Tornado East of Orlando

Possible Tornado East of Orlando

| March 29, 2014 @ 1:40 pm

A dangerous storm is east of Orlando International Airport at this hour, moving east toward Cocoa Beach. The most dangerous part of the storm at 1:40 is about 20 miles WSW of Cape Canaveral. It will arrive in Cocoa about 2:05 and Cape Canaveral about 2:15. Unstable conditions across the Florida Panhandle have set the […]

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Alabama’s Deadliest 1991 Tornado was an F1

Alabama’s Deadliest 1991 Tornado was an F1

| March 29, 2014 @ 12:14 pm

Hoyt Watts awakened around 5:35 a.m. on the morning of March 29, 1991 in his home on Highway 21 in Mumford in Talladega County.  It was storming outside.  Storming bad.  The wind was roaring loudly and lightning was flashing as thunder sounded continuously.  He looked out the window and could not believe his eyes.  A […]

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Rain Moving Out

Rain Moving Out

| March 29, 2014 @ 6:46 am

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 been quite a soaking rain event with many streams and rivers running full thanks to between 2 and […]

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Rain and Storms

Rain and Storms

| March 29, 2014 @ 2:50 am

Showers and storms continue to move across Alabama this morning. All of Alabama will see soaking rain during the morning hours. The more intense storms are along and south of the Interstate 20 corridor this morning and all this activity is moving east. There are some reports of lightning and loud rumbles of thunder in […]

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Storms Weaken Approaching the State

Storms Weaken Approaching the State

| March 29, 2014 @ 12:44 am

Large mass of showers and storms continues to push across Mississippi this morning. The overall intensity of the line is beginning to weaken as the line approaches the more stable air over Alabama. For the next few hours, we will see this activity move into Alabama and it will likely produce some heavy rainfall, gusty […]

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