The cold front we’ve been talking about for days is knocking on our door just before 10 am. Checkout the graphic below and it is pretty easy to see the wind shift line which is poised just west of Birmingham. The wind shift line runs from just east of Huntsville to a point between Birmingham […]
Widespread showers this morning across much of north-central Alabama, with even a few rumbles of thunder being reported. A nice, much needed soaking rain this morning should continue to push east through out the morning and into the afternoon. The cold front has made it into Alabama and is moving down I-22/Corridor X between Tupelo […]
Another packed house for our annual storm spotter training at the BJCC… a special thanks to everyone who attended Saturday. Each session video is below. There is a tad of audio noise due to some interference from our wireless mic, but it isn’t too bothersome hopefully. A special thanks to ABC 33/40 Skywatcher John Brown […]
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. TEMPS GO THE WRONG WAY: We begin this Monday with rain over much of Alabama ahead of a strong […]
In order to draw attention to upcoming weather threats, the National Weather Service (NWS) offices around the country conduct awareness week campaigns aimed at educating people on how to be prepared for those threats. This week is Winter Weather Awareness Week in Alabama, and the NWS in Birmingham will be issuing special releases each day […]
At 9:45 pm, the cold front that we expect to move through Alabama tomorrow was located just west of the Mississippi River at Memphis, TN. The front along with the showers and thunderstorms just ahead of the front was moving just a bit faster than previous forecasts indicated. It appears now that showers and embedded […]
Our friend Scott Unger from the National Weather Service wanted us to extend a last minute invitation to his final online severe weather training session of the fall this Thursday night at 6 p.m. You can do the training from the comfort of your arm chair since it is computer based! Get more information and […]
It starts as a wisp of white cloud on the horizon of a blue sky. A thin line of blue-gray storm clouds soon fills the northern sky, racing southward. Texans know a blue norther is on the way. Texans will tell you that everything in Texas is bigger, even their cold fronts. The powerful cold […]
Thunderstorms have broken out no this Sunday, as expected, over the Arklatex. A line of storms showing some broekn supercell tendencies extends from Tyler, TX to north of Texarkana, AR/TX. There is one small severe thunderstorm warning in southwestern Arkansas for a storm southwest of Arkadelphia. On the inset map in the middle left of […]
Monday, November 11, 1940 was Armistice Day, the remembrance of the symbolic end of World War I. On the 22nd anniversary of the end of the war, two of the Allied powers were not at peace. France was under Nazi occupation and Britain was under air siege by the German Luftwaffe. Newspaper headlines in the […]
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. Yesterday was a beautiful day with a high in Birmingham of 71, 3 degrees above the 30-year average high […]
It was a beautiful day across much of Alabama and the Southeast today. Above normal temperatures as well as an abundance sunshine and blue skies were everywhere. As we head through the rest of your evening, very nice conditions will continue. Once the sun goes down, temperatures will begin their fall and looking at the […]
Thank you to all of those who came to Storm Alert Xtreme at the BJCC today. I think we had a crowd of nearly 450 based on the fact that the place was set for about 500 people. And there were just not a lot of empty chairs. I sincerely hope the storm spotter training […]
Great conditions across much of the Southeast today as an area of high pressure in Georgia is the main feature controlling our weather, with mostly sunny skies all across the region. You can pick out where the front is and the dividing line between the cold air and warm air across central Nebraska. Thick, low […]
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.
