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Archive for June 19th, 2016

TD 4 Comes Alive

TD 4 Comes Alive

| June 19, 2016 @ 4:04 pm

The National Hurricane Cetner (NHC) has issued the first advisory on the newly formed Tropical Depression 4 in the Southwest Gulf of Mexico. Here is the text of that advisory and the latest track of the system. NHC forecasters do expect it to become a tropical storm tonight or early Monday. If it does, it […]

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Happy Father’s Day!

Happy Father’s Day!

| June 19, 2016 @ 1:12 pm

Happy Father’s Day to all you dads out there! We have a special Father’s Day present for you from all of us here in the Weather Department: some beautiful weather for your Sunday afternoon! This morning’s low clouds are evaporating as air with lower dewpoints are mixing into the area. Temperatures are a few degrees […]

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TD4 Soon?

TD4 Soon?

| June 19, 2016 @ 10:08 am

Invest 94L over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico may well already be a tropical depression. Air Force Reconnaissance will investigate the system this afternoon. Wind shear is fairly light over the system and thunderstorms continue to concentrate near the center. It will continue moving west northwest and will reach the Mexican Coast late tonight or […]

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Remembering Hurricane Agnes (1972)

Remembering Hurricane Agnes (1972)

| June 19, 2016 @ 10:00 am

On this date in 1972, Hurricane Agnes moved ashore in the Florida panhandle as a weak Category 1 storm. The highest wind reported on the Gulf Coast was a gust to just 56 mph at Apalachicola, Florida. The $10 million in damage in the Florida Panhandle was just a drop in the bucket. Hurricane Agnes […]

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Slightly Drier Air for a Couple of Days

Slightly Drier Air for a Couple of Days

| June 19, 2016 @ 6:40 am

Some small early morning showers were showing up on radar in a band from Montgomery northwestward to Fayette. These were all very small and not producing much in the way of rainfall. Low clouds blanketed a good portion of Central Alabama, so it looks like most of us will wake up to some form of […]

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