The high so far at the Birmingham Airport this afternoon is 89 degrees… so unless we tag 90 during the next 30 minutes, the record breaking streak consecutive 90 degree days will end at 50… See the official Birmingham climate data here.
The use of “social media” has exploded in recent years. Over seventy percent of Americans have a Facebook account, and Twitter is no small revolution, not to mention others like FourSquare and LinkedIn. This means that many Alabamians will get weather information first from their smart phone, computer, iPad, or other device that enables access […]
Another indication of the impressive rains that can fall out of these thunderstorms in this moist, summertime airmass: 1.21 inches of rain fell at the Huntsville International Airport this afternoon. That fact is not impressive on its own, but where you consider that… …0.88 inches fell in 8 minutes …1.02 inches fell in 9 minutes […]
From NASA… You know it’s a good night when a beautiful alignment of planets is the second best thing that’s going to happen. Thursday, August 12th, is such a night. The show begins at sundown when Venus, Saturn, Mars and the crescent Moon pop out of the western twilight in tight conjunction. All four heavenly […]
WeatherBrains Episode 237 is now online (August 9, 2010). If you are crazy about weather, this is THE netcast audio program for you! Back on February 14th, Micah Maziar dropped us a line and in it he said: One of my coworkers at Toledo Air Traffic Control Tower in Northwest Ohio is an absolute weather […]
Even with the extended hot spell, we have been seemingly luckily that there have been few air quality alerts. I don’t know if mitigation efforts are working, or if we have had less in the way of stagnant conditions, but there seem to have been fewer. But there is an air quality alert for Monday […]
This evening’s storms put down some very impressive rainfall totals and some incredible lightning around Central Alabama. We are just left with a few isolated showers from Pickens, Greene, and Hale Counties into Bibb, Perry, and Chilton. A few sprinkles are still ongoing in Cherokee, Etowah, and Cleburne Counties. Here are some of the rainfall […]
NOAA Still Expects Active Atlantic Hurricane Season; La Niña Develops The Atlantic Basin remains on track for an active hurricane season, according to the scheduled seasonal outlook update issued today by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service. With the season’s peak just around the corner – late August through October […]
WeatherBrains Episode 236 is now online (August 2, 2010). If you are crazy about weather, this is THE netcast audio program for you! Guest panelist for this episode of WeatherBrains is Brenda Phillips. Brenda Philips is the leader of the End User Integration research at the Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA), […]
The following statement came from the National Weather Service office at the Shelby County Airport this morning. We are about halfway through Summer, and since June we’ve seen some fairly hot weather – and the statistics just prove what we already knew. -Brian- PNSBMX ALZ011>015-017>050-020000- PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 734 AM […]
Welcome to August in Birmingham. We are on the downhill run of summer now. The days are getting shorter. And with the lessened solar energy, the temperatures will be going down. July is our hottest month, but there is really very little difference from mid-June to mid-August. Then things start to cool off. Right now, […]
WeatherBrains Episode 235 is now online (July 27, 2010). If you are crazy about weather, this is THE netcast audio program for you! Tonight’s Guest Panelist has been in the television weather business since 1994. Patrick Hammer is the morning meteorologist at the ABC affiliate in Minneapolis /St. Paul – KSTP. He was born in […]
The info below is from the Greater Birmingham Humane Society. We know there are many dog lovers that are part of the blog family, so hopefully somebody here can help… SERVICE DOG MISSING REWARD BELONGS TO PARALYZED VETERAN HER NAME IS EMMA YELLOW LAB SHE DID NOT HAVE HER VEST OR COLLAR ON. EMMA HAS […]
Not much going on in the radar department this afternoon. Widely scattered storms over the northern third of the state and isolated storms over the middle third, with widespread light to moderate rain from dying storms over South Alabama. Storms were growing over northern Cullman County, centered near Good Hope. Another vigorous storm was north […]
Our long time friend, mentor, and charter Weather Factory member, J.B. Elliott, passed away on May 11, 2015. Click HERE to read James' tribute.
