For Waymond Jackson Jr. and his family, July 13 was always a sad anniversary. July 13, 1985, was the date his father, Leondras Waymond Jackson Sr., died in a motel swimming pool.
In her end-of-the-year address to Alabamians, Gov. Kay Ivey reaffirmed the unprecedented nature of 2020 while expressing optimism for 2021.
The storms are off into Georgia but some rain lingers over southeastern sections. The front will stall and cause some showers again tomorrow over the same areas.
Strong storms are just about out of Alabama, but they are still impacting eastern Lee, and southeastern Chambers Counties.
In a year when the COVID economy stymied the real economy, business still got done because it needed to. Sure, there were shutdowns and slowdowns, pivots and wholesale changes because businesses can adapt when they need to.
A line of showers and storms continues pushing east across East Alabama this morning.
Some strong storms continue over East Alabama this morning. Winds could gust to 40 mph with the stronger storms.
A broken line of showers and thunderstorms continues to move across the eastern half of North/Central Alabama as showers along the cold front are dissipating in intensity.
At 546 AM CST, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from near Iuka to 7 miles north of Belgreen to 9 miles northwest of Hackleburg. Movement was northeast at 55 mph.
Happy New Year! Rain and storms move through this morning, but we’ll begin to dry out later today. A stray shower may be possible on Saturday, but we get to enjoy a long stretch of dry weather until late Thursday.
The latest Hazardous Weather Outlook from NWS Birmingham is now keeping a small (marginal) risk for a brief tornado or damaging winds through 1:00 PM today along and south of a line from Demopolis to Alexander City.
HAPPY NEW YEAR! The surface low responsible for the threat of strong to severe storms this morning continues to hang out over the northeastern parts of Texas and will soon move over the extreme southeastern corner of Oklahoma before entering the western parts of Arkansas.
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.
