I will be on ABC 33/40 News tonight at 10:00… hope you can join us. Not much change in the overall thinking for tomorrow (since this morning)… New guidance rolling still suggests the main threat of icy travel will be well to the north of Birmingham, mainly over the Tennessee Valley. We can’t rule out […]
Here is an update on the Alabama Weather Situation tonight. No change in our forecast thinking tonight. All indications are that the surface low that will bring a mix of precipitation to Alabama is going to take a more northerly track which will give us warmer temperature profiles and push the threat of wintry precipitation […]
The National Weather Service in Birmingham has canceled the winter storm watch for Central Alabama. The NWS Huntsville has upgraded their winter storm watch to a winter weather advisory. Upgraded, you say? Yes, the move from a watch to an advisory is actually an upgrade. Now as serious as an upgrade to a winter storm […]
The 12Z model set confirms our revised forecast from early this morning… PLACEMENT: The greatest risk of freezing rain and bridge/road icing tomorrow morning will be north of a line from Vernon to Jasper to Oxford. This boundary between a cold rain and freezing rain is the hardest part of the forecast; it could change […]
I will have a more detailed discussion early this afternoon, but a quick note that the new model runs (12Z) confirm the forecast change. Best chance of freezing rain will be north of the Birmingham metro… Main threat of freezing rain will be north of a line from Vernon to Warrior to Jacksonville. Most 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. Unfortunately, even though we have moved closer to the event, the picture has gotten fuzzier instead of clearer. Unlike […]
Brian will be along shortly with a new Weather Xtreme video; this is a look at the winter storm potential for North Alabama tomorrow… MODELS TREND WARMER: Bad news for snow lovers in Alabama, but good news for those that don’t like ice storms (and I really don’t know anyone who does). There has been […]
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