WeatherBrains Episode 392 is now online (July 29, 2013). If you are crazy about weather, this is THE netcast audio program for you! Tonight’s Guest WeatherBrain is the founder of MemphisWeather.net, owner of Cirrus Weather Solutions, LLC, and senior aviation meteorologist with FedEx Express in Memphis, TN, Erik Proseus. Erik is good friends with David […]
Overnight Flossie will be crossing the Hawaiian Islands as a minimal tropical storm. Flossie has weakened the last 24 hours as she approaches our 50th state. Maximum sustained winds are at 40 mph with some higher gusts. The main threat from the system will be rough surf and the chance for flooding. Much of Hawaii […]
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. Today is the anniversary of the hottest day ever recorded in Birmingham. On July 29, 1930, the mercury climbed […]
A few isolated showers have popped up in the afternoon heating across Central Alabama ahead of a southward moving cold front. Moderate showers briefly flared from south of Bessemer in southwestern Jefferson County to near Pelham to just south of Chelsea in Shelby County. A light shower is west of Forestdale in northwestern Jefferson County. […]
It has been a summer of high amplitude weather patterns across the United States. Huge ridges with record heat. Deep troughs with cold temperatures. Right now, a very Autumn like airmass is over the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes states. In Chicago, Tom Skilling reports that it has been the coolest July weather in 29 […]
We are watching to see if the remnants of Dorian redevelop this afternoon. So are the Hurricane Hunters who are flying the second leg of a mission to see if a circulation has reformed. On satellite, it is evident that the outflow has definitely improved, but thunderstorms are still not very organized around the […]
There was quite a variety in sky conditions across Central Alabama this morning as fog and low clouds developed in a few spots, giving the day a gray start. In other locations, sunshine was in full force. Morning lows in the I-20 corridor ranged from 69F at Anniston to 71F at Tuscaloosa, to 73F at […]
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. If you want to be in the weather forecasting business, you will occasionally be humbled by the weather. Such […]
Saturday has been a mostly humid day across much of the state. Very isolated showers developed over portions of West Alabama today and these storms pulsed up quickly and pulsed down just as quick. Still seeing a few showers over portions of Tuscaloosa and Fayette Counties this evening. The more intense activity today has been […]
The National Hurricane Center has just issued their last advisory on Tropical Storm Dorian. …DORIAN DEGENERATES INTO A TROPICAL WAVE… …THIS IS THE LAST ADVISORY… SUMMARY OF 500 PM AST…2100 UTC…INFORMATION ———————————————- LOCATION…18.9N 54.7W ABOUT 550 MI…890 KM E OF THE NORTHERN LEEWARD ISLANDS MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…40 MPH…65 KM/H PRESENT MOVEMENT…W OR 280 DEGREES AT […]
It has been a very unusual July for weather across much of Alabama. This last Saturday of July the unusual weather continues. Clouds, rain, a few pockets of sunshine and well below normal temperatures are making July seem more like late May. Most of Alabama is seeing mostly cloudy skies this afternoon with a threat […]
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. After a couple of days of quiet weather, our weather in Central Alabama has once again turned unsettled. A […]
A complex of very severe thunderstorms pummeled the Albuquerque, NM area tonight with wind gusts to nearly 90 mph, intense rainfall, flooding and intense lightning. From the NWS ABQ: Our thoughts are with everyone impacted by this evening’s extremely damaging thunderstorm complex that struck Albuquerque and much of the Middle Rio Grande Valley. Please be […]
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. THIS AFTERNOON: Still very comfortable for late July in Alabama. With a partly sunny sky, temperatures are mostly in […]
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.
