From Bill Cooke of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville…. Update on our visitor from the asteroid belt: 1) Eyewitness reports put the meteor in the same area as the doppler echo – good confirmation. Check out the clump of lines in the map NW of Cullman (along with the eyewitness accounts) at this […]
In October 1997, emergency management officials in Westchester County, New York ran a hurricane simulation for their area. The fictional storm was loosely based on the 1938 Long Island Express Hurricane, which caused extreme devastation on Long Island and in Westchester County. The practice hurricane was set to come inland on Saturday evening, October 4th […]
Good work by Chip Faust as we work to solve the mystery of the fireball seen by thousands across the Alabama sky around 5:30 p.m. yesterday. Last night, Bill Cooke of the Meteoroid Environments Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville wrote… “This was NOT a Taurid meteor; probably a random interloper from […]
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. COLD HALLOWEEN NIGHT: The NWS has issued a freeze warning for all of their counties up in the Tennessee […]
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. FIREBALL: Scroll down for the update on last night’s blazing streak across the sky at 5:30 p.m. NASA’s Bill […]
Thanks to Bill Cooke from NASA in Huntsville.. the best meteor expert in the state. He tells us this about the 5:30 p.m. fireball that was seen over much of our state… “This was NOT a Taurid meteor; probably a random interloper from the asteroid belt. Doppler weather radar shows a meteoritic “rain”, indicating that […]
Social media lit up like a Christmas tree around 5:30 this evening as thousands across North and Central Alabama saw an extremely bright fireball rolling through the southern sky. Then, loud explosive type “booms” were heard… mostly around Smith Lake and adjacent areas. The Taurid meteor shower is in progress now… and is most likely […]
This image was captured by Hank Bowman over the Birmingham area this afternoon… Almost looks like a big “eye in the sky”… thanks to these optics caused by a layer of high cirrus clouds, which are ice crystals, which refract the sunlight.
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. HALO AROUND THE SUN: Anybody see this in the Alabama sky this afternoon? That is a “22 degree halo” […]
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. ON THE MAP: The deep surface low formerly known as Hurricane Sandy is on the Pennsylvania/Maryland border this morning, […]
WeatherBrains Episode 353 is now online (October 29, 2012). If you are crazy about weather, this is THE netcast audio program for you! The guests for this episode have all become jumbled due to Sandy. That is, the regular guest planned for tonight has been superseded by having Sandy coming into the East Coast along […]
From the NWS New York City: RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 949 PM EST MON OCT 29 2012 …RECORD HIGH WATER LEVEL AT THE BATTERY NY… A RECORD HIGH WATER LEVEL OF 13.88 FEET WAS SET AT THE BATTERY NY TODAY AT 9:24 PM. THIS BREAKS THE OLDEST OFFICIAL RECORD OF […]
The tide at Battery Park is now approaching 8 feet above mean lower low water. The astronomical tide right now should be about 1 foot above mean lower low water, which means that the tidal level at the Battery at the south end of Manhattan is now 7 feet above normal and climbing as we […]
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.
