On June 1, 2018, a fire was started in the San Juan National Forest in southwest Colorado about 100 miles from the Four Corners, the intersection of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. The fire which is named the “416 Fire” is approaching the end of its third week of burning with about 37% containment and has burnt over 35,000 acres in the San Juan National Forest.
The heat is really starting to crank up as ridging takes over the weather pattern across the Deep South, and we started to see signs of that on Sunday. The afternoon high reached 92 degrees in Birmingham, which is hot on its own, but heat index values were well up into the upper 90s and creeping over into the lower 100s.
I was on vacation Friday night, June 22, but weather never stops or sleeps. I worked the severe thunderstorm event that night on social media; Charles Daniel did a wonderful job on ABC 33/40 over on the TV side in my absence. And, there were frequent updates right here on the blog as always. Without […]
HOT SUMMER DAYS: It is that time of the year when you can say “hot and humid with scattered, mostly afternoon and evening thunderstorms” and get the foreacst right just about every time. An upper ridge and abundant low level moisture will be in place across the Deep South this week providing the typical summertime weather for Alabama. We note the NWS in Birmingham has issued a “heat advisory” for some Central Alabama counties today.
We are tracking a potential system currently over Tennessee and Kentucky that has a chance to develop into a tropical cyclone by midweek as it moves off the coast of North Carolina. It has a chance to become Tropical Storm Beryl.
June 25, 1957: In 1957, the Alabama Legislature sought to protect white political rule in Tuskegee by redrawing voting districts.
A heat advisory is in effect for much of Central Alabama from noon until 7 p.m. today and tonight.
It’s nice to have a quiet weather update to present after a busy week here in the Weather Office. Don’t get me wrong, I am thankful for summer rains, which totaled over two inches in the past seven days for all but extreme eastern Alabama, but I can do without a rare June EF2 tornado […]
Birmingham had a High of 84 and a Low of 69 for June 23rd, 2018
Shower and storm coverage for Alabama should be down from recent days today and into the first part of the upcoming week. With the building of an upper ridge, temperatures will be up from those of the last several days with highs pushing into the lower half of the 90s. Heat indices could climb into the triple digits with the humid air mass in place.
Power wheelchair users may see a solution to rainy days with a new automatic umbrella attachment engineered by University of Alabama at Birmingham students. The UAB School of Engineering team is one of six internationally selected to present their designs at the eighth annual World Congress of Biomechanics in Dublin, Ireland, in July.
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Alabama’s business recruiters were in the nation’s capital last week, selling the state’s diverse and growing business scene to potential investors from around the world.
June 24, 1868 : The CSS Selma originally was named the Florida, and it sailed the waters of the Gulf Coast in the mid-19th century
