Storms are fairly concentrated in two places tonight, including Morgan County in North Alabama and Greene and Hale Counties in West Central Alabama. Showers have weakened over Walker County. The storms over Morgan County are near the vortex of the upper level disturbance that has triggered the showers today. It is moving to the northeast. […]
Isolated showers are forming across western Alabama this afternoon ahead of a southeastward diving upper disturbance that is near Memphis at this hour. They extend northward along a curved line into Central Tennessee west of Nashville. The heaviest shower was just northeast of Jasper in Walker County, moving east toward Arkadelphia. No lightning yet, but […]
As we sail into afternoon here in Central Alabama, here is a quick look at the Alabama weather situation. Yesterday’s cold front lies across southeastern Alabama with a surface low tracking along it southwest of Atlanta. The front isn’t going to go much further to the south though. Another weak surface low was east of […]
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. The main forecast challenge for today is to determine exactly where the dividing line is between the drier air […]
The western United States is sizzling under a huge 594 dkm upper level high pressure system. Lots of records fell on Friday, and even more today. Here is a representative listing of daily records for 6/29: 123F at Needles CA (June record) 122F at Palm Springs/Thermal CA 121F at Indio CA 118F at Las Vegas […]
A quick look at the surface analysis shows the frontal boundary continues to drop south across the state today. The front was roughly along the Interstate 20 corridor across the state. It will continue to head south overnight and will actually bring a bit of drier air in behind it. That should translate into less […]
Depending where you are across North Central Alabama, the weather is quite different. Areas along and north of Interstate 20 are seeing mostly sunny skies. To the south, scattered showers and thunderstorms. These storms are widely scattered but are a bit more concentrated along the U.S. Highway 80 corridor from Marengo County to Dallas County. […]
Some showers and storms have popped up early this afternoon across Central Alabama. There is one storm in northeast Tuscaloosa County along Interstate 20/59 and another shower in northern Talladega County. There is a cluster of more organized activity across Sumter and Marengo Counties, near Demopolis affecting highways 80 and 25. All activity is pushing […]
Just after 11 am, cumulus clouds had begun forming in the sky over North and Central Alabama while some low clouds and fog were finally dissipating in the area from Montgomery to Columbus, GA. With the morning soundings in, it sure looks like showers and thunderstorms will be confined to the southern portion of 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. Thunderstorms galore yesterday, but as an unusually deep trough carves out across the eastern US, it looks like our […]
It has been a very active day and night for strong and severe storms across Alabama as there were numerous reports of tree and power line damage in many areas today. The worst of the weather continues to push south tonight with the most intense activity along and south of the Interstate 85 and Highway […]
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: AUTAUGA DALLAS LOWNDES MARENGO THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF…DEMOPOLIS…FORT DEPOSIT…LINDEN… LOWNDESBORO…PRATTVILLE AND SELMA.
(This is an archived post from December 16, 2011.) These images were sent in by a number of our readers/viewers at midday… the first shot below is from the Alabama Air National Guard facility at the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport… This one is from I-65… Another image from an office in downtown Birmingham… From the Cloud […]
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: CHILTON PERRY GREENE HALE SUMTER THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF…CLANTON…EUTAW…GREENSBORO… LIVINGSTON…MARION…MOUNDVILLE…UNIONTOWN AND YORK. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS VALID UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT TONIGHT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: AUTAUGA DALLAS LOWNDES MARENGO THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF…DEMOPOLIS…FORT DEPOSIT…LINDEN… LOWNDESBORO…PRATTVILLE AND SELMA.
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.
