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Hi Everyone, June has arrived & with its arrival begins the North Atlantic Hurricane Season, which will last until the end of November. Hurricane season predictions are an inexact science, but most soothsayers are saying, that due to El Nino fading away, we will have a severe tropical season. How severe depends on whom you ask. NOAA is predicting 23 named systems, with 8 to 14 hurricanes, 3 to 7 of which will be major. Dr. William Gray & Phillip Klotzbach of Colorado State predicts 18 named systems, with 10 hurricanes, four of which will be major. Florida State has issued the news that they believe there is an 89% chance of the US being hit by a hurricane that would “cause property damage”. Personally I predict a 100% chance of hurricane related property damage either wind or water related within a 150 mile radius of landfall, with the greater damage potential occurring on the right side of the storm path, especially if at high tide, on a bay and it being on a full moon, going with the operating assumption that a storm actually forms and that it actually makes landfall on the continental US… <str Continue reading

ALERT / National Weather Service Birmingham Coverage Area

  • ALERT covers the BMX county warning area. Presently, this includes: Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Dallas, Elmore, Etowah, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Jefferson, Lamar, Lee, Lowndes, Macon, Marengo, Marion, Montgomery, Perry, Pickens, Pike, Randolph, Russell, Shelby, St Clair, Sumter, Talladega, Tallapoosa, Tuscaloosa, Walker, Winston