3.58 New Orleans International Airport 8.10 New Orleans Audubon 9.02 New Orleans Lakefront Airport 4.38 Belle Chasse 5.32 Boothville 2.82 Gulf Port 3.67 Pascagoula 4.12 Mobile Brookley Field 4.67 Mobile Regional Airport
(Things are changing somewhat with the eye slowly moving ashore) * New Orleans International Airport…NE wind gusting to 35 * New Orleans Lakefront…NE wind gusts to 39 * Boothville, La., near mouth of Mississippi…rain, wind NE, Gusts 41 * Biloxi…heavy rain, wind NE gusts 28 * Gulfport…cloudy NE wind gusts 30 Ironically a beautiful sunrise […]
SPOT REPORTS AT 8 PM CST Key West…rain, 79, wind NE 17 Miami…84 cloudy, wind NE 18 Molasses Reef, 85, wind, east 28, gusts 30 Mobile…83, mostly cloudy, wind south 8 Gulf Shores…clear, 81, wind SE 3 Dauphin Island…82, wind NE 2 Tampa…mostly cloudy, 80, wind NE 6 FLORIDA RAIN …only light to moderate […]
Not much change in our weather overnight. We are waking up to another morning much like yesterday morning. It is mostly clear with temperatures mostly in the lower 60s. For this weekend, more sun than clouds. It will be a bit hotter with highs 90-92 and the humidity up a bit.. Not a great deal […]
Remember, we still have September down the road. That month can be very hot. On September 5 and 6, 1925, it was 106 in Birmingham–two of seven days in a row with 100 or higher! Later that month, there were two more 100+ days. As if Mother Nature was trying to rub it in, two […]
Is it possible that Mother Nature is trying to give us a preview of Autumn after scorching us and flooding us so much so far this year?. Maybe Father Nature encouraged her to lighten up! It sure felt that way this morning. Anyway, here we go with a list of very pleasant low temperatures across […]
* Late this morning, a solid line of thunderstorms, overdosed with lightning, extended from the west Gulf of Mexico northeastward to just off the Southeast Louisiana Coast to just off the east part of the Northwest Florida Panhandle. The rest of the USA was relatively quiet, * A blistering 118 was the official hottest temperature […]
As of 3:30 am, the line of thunderstorms has not weakened any. The lightning is still almost constant and the rain is extremely heavy. These storms have a history of wind damage including tree damage.as well as hail. Hail has also been reported. WHERE ARE THE STORMS AS OF 3:30 AM? The leading storms are […]
At 10:12 this morning the Lamar County EMA reported that US 278 was closed in Sulligent due to flash flooding. Some of those heavier showers have now drifted southward into Tuscaloosa and North Pickens County. A storm, with lightning was over North Tuscaloosa County. Down in Southeast Alabama, an area of showers were moving westward […]
6:10 AM…Braved the elements long enough to measure the rain. Lightning is still rather frequent but it is all LTGCC or LTGIC instead of cloud to ground. I was almost soaked in the rain My total so far in NE Trussville 2.42 inches…4th morning in a row with no morning paper. I cried
Not for Alabama–at least not yet. One of the longest lines of severe thunderstorms that I can remember is stretched out all across the Central and Eastern USA this evening. It stretches across 2/3rds of the country from West Texas northeastward to about Dallas, to Little Rock, across the Missouri Bootheel to Louisville, Pittsburgh, New […]
* LIGHTNING IS FRIGHTENING: Lightning this afternoon struck a 40-year old man at his home near the intersection of Bell Factory Road and Red Rock Drive, about 5 miles SE of Moores Mill in the Madison area. He was transported to the hospital and is in critical condition. The old saying is true, “Lightning is […]
An encouraging rain story for dry Alabama in recent days and an excellent chance for more rain across the state in the next several days. Here is a good sampling. These amounts are for the last 24 hours ending around 6 or 7 o’clock this morning: Remember, we often get more than one report for […]
Second radio update at 9:30 due to the large clusters of thunderstorms dumping very heavy rain, strong winds and almost continuous lightning.Thunder is window shaking. Strongest storms now extend from the east edge of Jefferson County and the east edge of Birmingham eastward across St. Clair and North Talladega County. The lightning is almost continuous […]
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.
