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One More Dry Day For Alabama

One More Dry Day For Alabama

| August 28, 2013 @ 3:45 pm

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. RAIN-FREE LATE SUMMER AFTERNOON: Just for the fun of it, I did peek at the state radar systems this […]

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Afternoon Heat Levels Creeping Up

Afternoon Heat Levels Creeping Up

| August 28, 2013 @ 6:21 am

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. ANOTHER DRY DAY: Not quite as cool this morning across Alabama… Vic Bell up at Black Creek reports 61 […]

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WeatherBrains 396:  Breaking News Exclusives

WeatherBrains 396: Breaking News Exclusives

| August 28, 2013 @ 5:15 am

WeatherBrains Episode 396 is now online (August 27, 2013). If you are crazy about weather, this is THE netcast audio program for you! Our special Guest WeatherBrain is the SOO, Science and Operations Officer, at the National Weather Service in Charleston, SC. And that would be plenty of reason to have Frank Alsheimer on the […]

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Slow Warm-Up Through Mid-Week

Slow Warm-Up Through Mid-Week

| August 27, 2013 @ 2:56 pm

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. ANOTHER RAIN-FREE DAY: Temperatures are generally in the mid 80s this afternoon… 84 degrees at Birmingham and Anniston at […]

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Hear Severe Weather Expert Greg Carbin Speak September 9th in Hoover

Hear Severe Weather Expert Greg Carbin Speak September 9th in Hoover

| August 27, 2013 @ 9:57 am

Excitement is building as another prominent meteorologist will be coming to speak in Central Alabama to the local NWA Chapter. Greg Carbin, the Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, will be the guest speaker at the Chapter’s next meeting. Severe weather impacts the U.S. and Alabama every month of the […]

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Dry August Weather

Dry August Weather

| August 27, 2013 @ 5:53 am

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. ANOTHER REFRESHING MORNING: How about these temperatures at daybreak… Black Creek (northeast of Gadsden) 56 Fort Payne 59 Russellville […]

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Dry Air Covers Alabama; Nice And Quiet

Dry Air Covers Alabama; Nice And Quiet

| August 26, 2013 @ 3:35 pm

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. NO SHOWERS AROUND HERE: A rare scene on a summer afternoon in Alabama… no showers or storms on radar. […]

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Warm Days, Pleasant Nights, No Rain

Warm Days, Pleasant Nights, No Rain

| August 26, 2013 @ 6:07 am

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. DRY DAYS FOR A CHANGE: It is very unusual for us to go just one day with no showers […]

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Tropical Depression Six Forms

Tropical Depression Six Forms

| August 25, 2013 @ 3:50 pm

The disturbed area that moved across the Yucatan Peninsula yesterday and last night has become slightly better organized, and the National Hurricane Center has dubbed it TD 6. Their statement is below. The best estimate on the track keeps it on a west-northwest course into Mexico in about 12 hours. A Hurricane Hunter aircraft is […]

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A Great Looking Afternoon

A Great Looking Afternoon

| August 25, 2013 @ 1:34 pm

A mix of sun and clouds this afternoon with an easterly wind. That wind is bringing in drier air and we can see that back looking at the dew point temperature readings decreasing from west to east across the state. Notice the lower dew points farther east, with some in the upper 50s. Very nice […]

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Drier Air Flowing into Alabama

Drier Air Flowing into Alabama

| August 25, 2013 @ 10:06 am

Finally some relief from the persistent showers and storms we have seen all summer. We may actually make it 5-7 days before most areas will see a chance of rain again. Dry air is filtering in to the state thanks to the area of high pressure in the Mid-Atlantic. This area of high pressure will […]

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Drier with Cool Mornings Ahead

Drier with Cool Mornings Ahead

| August 25, 2013 @ 6:45 am

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 drier air is making its way into Central Alabama to give us some relief from the high humidity. […]

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A Handful of Isolated Thunderstorms

A Handful of Isolated Thunderstorms

| August 24, 2013 @ 6:43 pm

It has been a great Saturday weatherwise for most locations in Central Alabama. A few isolated thunderstorms did develop and even a few continue rumbling across areas of West Alabama. Portions of Tuscaloosa, Pickens, Perry, Marengo and Dallas Counties are seeing heavy rain and intense lightning. These storms will continue to move west the next […]

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Quick Radar Check

Quick Radar Check

| August 24, 2013 @ 2:40 pm

A few isolated storms have develop across the Alabama landscape this afternoon. Just as we have seen all summer, storms are producing very heavy rainfall and frequent lightning. Storms are moving east to west  and should not sit over one location too long. A few areas could see some very isolated flash flooding. Currently, some […]

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