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Archive for June 17th, 2015

You Know It’s a Bad Day When…

You Know It’s a Bad Day When…

| June 17, 2015 @ 8:42 pm

…You are in Oklahoma and you see Val Castor drive up. I looked up leaving dinner tonight in flooded Ardmore OK and there he was. It is the Sooner State equivalent of Jim Cantore showing up. Should have asked him to be on WeatherBrains! He was here for this:

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Big Rains From Bill

Big Rains From Bill

| June 17, 2015 @ 7:47 pm

Tropical Depression Bill marched up I-35 today bringing a large part of the Gulf of Mexico with it and wringing out some impressive rain totals. Radars estimated that over five inches of rain has fallen across a wide area today from northwest of Fort Worth into southern Oklahoma around Ardmore. And those estimates are considered […]

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A Great Day To Be Bill

A Great Day To Be Bill

| June 17, 2015 @ 2:59 pm

One of my favorite weather days is when I get to experience a dying tropical system well inland. It goes back to September 1971, when the remnants of Hurricane Edith tracked right across Central Alabama as a tropical depression after making landfall over southwestern Louisiana. It meant a day playing hookie for a fourth grader […]

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Heat Staying Up

Heat Staying Up

| June 17, 2015 @ 6:45 am

Our weather pattern for Central Alabama remains stuck on the large surface and upper ridge that remain in place over the Southeast US giving us some of the hottest days so far for 2015. Heat advisories have also been posted for parts of Southeast Alabama as well as parts of South Georgia and North Florida. […]

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