Alabama Current Watches and WarningsChanges are coming fast and furious to Alabama’s weather in the week ahead. Rain, a few strong storms, a big cooldown, and even a few snow flurries are all possible between now and the weekend. Let’s get right to the meat and potatoes of it:
SEVERE WEATHER? There are some indications that we could deal with [...]
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The 2009 Atlantic hurricane season officially ends today marking the close of a season with the fewest named storms and hurricanes since 1997 thanks, in part, to El Niño.
Nine named storms formed this year, including three hurricanes, two of which were major hurricanes at Category 3 strength or higher. These numbers fall within the ranges [...]
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First up, the rest of today…the main rain area is moving out of the state as it weakens, and we are left with low clouds, some patchy drizzle, and breezy conditions for the rest of today. We have already reached our high for the day, and temperatures will continue to fall for the rest of [...]
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There is a lot of interesting weather ahead this week as we deal first with a double-barrel storm system, followed by s sharp shot of much colder winter weather. The system bringing today’s rain across the area will be east of here tonight. Clouds will increase again on Tuesday and rain and thunderstorms will overspread the [...]
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The following is from our friends at the National Hurricane Center -
The 2009 Atlantic hurricane season officially ends today, marking the close of a season with the fewest named storms and hurricanes since 1997 thanks, in part, to El Niño.
Nine named storms formed this year, including three hurricanes, two of which were major hurricanes at [...]
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The rain was coming down this morning as expected. I just took my son to school and the visibility was fairly low due to heavy rain along highway 280. It appears the heaviest rain will continue at least through 9am. I’m still thinking we’ll see some gradual clearing this afternoon. As my mom would say, [...]
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Moderate to light showers are moving through our area today. Most of the rain north if I-20/59 should end by noon. The remainder of our showers should end by sunset. Skies are expected to rapidly clear tonight, with lows dropping into the mid-30s by tomorrow morning.
Tuesday should begin with sunshine. Tuesday night into Wednesday night [...]
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The fall severe weather season has generally been quiet. We had the one tornado event just before that ushered my good friend Jason Kelley onto the FOX 6 StormWarn Team, but after that, things have really been quiet. I get the idea that may be changing. By Wednesday morning, an intense area of low pressure [...]
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There will be tornadic storms in the Southeast Wednesday and possibly early Thursday morning. The question is where. At this point, I’d say the best chances will be South Alabama, South Georgia, Florida’s panhandle, and maybe even the Carolinas. However, if we get any instability across Central Alabama – the weather will get active very [...]
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You may have noticed a strange ring around the moon tonight. We’ve already received a number of calls from viewers noticing the same thing. Here’s the explanation. The ring is caused by the refraction of moonlight (which is reflected sunlight) from ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. The hexagonal shape of these crystals is focusing [...]
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