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The Long Dry Spell Continues

FOR THURSDAY: After another clear and cool start, another great-looking day will be taking shape. The clear sky will once again stick around for the entire day, there could certainly be a few high clouds possible, but for the most part, it will be sunshine and blue sky. It will be a warmer day across Central Alabama, with highs reaching…

New Day, Same Forecast

LOOKS AND FEELS LIKE OCTOBER TO ME: A chilly start to our Wednesday, but under sky filled with sun and not a cloud in sight, temperatures will be able to make it into lower to mid 80s this afternoon. It will be oh so nice and just a wonderful Wednesday across the entire state. Dew points are well down into…

Fantastic Fall Weather

TERRIFIC TUESDAY: This truly is my favorite time of year with simply delightful weather ongoing. Plenty of sunshine, warm afternoons, and cool, crisp mornings. That is what we are seeing outside today as it will be sunny and temperatures this afternoon will be in the low 80s. We will have winds out of the east at 5-10 MPH, and with…

Golden Apple: Derek Simon

It’s Monday and time to meet this week’s Golden Apple Award Winner. Our winner this week comes from Park Crossing High School in the Montgomery Public School System, our own Ryan Stinnett has more with this week’s Golden Apple Award. It is said that mathematics is the universal language, our Golden Apple Winner this week makes sure his students speak…

Hurricane Evacuees in Capital City Waiting to Go Home

As Hurricane Matthew makes its way out to sea, people that evacuated to Montgomery are still waiting to go back.

The Capital City has seen a lot of evacuees from Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. Carol Campbell evacuated St. Simons Island, Georgia with her husband and two dogs. They have been staying at a hotel in Montgomery for 4 days still do not know when they will return home. “A few people in the neighborhood have stayed and they say…

Cooler, but Staying Dry

THE WEEK AHEAD: It is that time of year where we in Alabama tend to experience our greatest weather, when we see warm afternoons and clear and cool mornings. For this week, that is what is expected, and I know I am shutting off my A/C and opening my windows allowing my home to air out, and letting Mother Nature…

We Need Rain

GORGEOUS SUNDAY: Is there a clouds in the Alabama sky? Well at the writing of this forecast, I am not seeing one. It is a beautiful fall day, just a little warm with upper 70s and lower 80s. No clouds in the sky means no rain, and that is the only negative to today’s forecast. Dew points are into the…

Slightly Cooler, Staying Dry

SUNNY AND BREEZY SATURDAY: The dry cold front pushed through Alabama today and we have seen severe clear across the state today and it has been a sunny and gorgeous day. Temperatures were in the upper 80s and lower 90s through out South/Central Alabama. It has been a breezy day due to the frontal passage and the pressure gradient between…

Dry Weather Continues, Future Forecaster Thomas Leatherwood

FINE ALABAMA FRIDAY: Today will be a near repeat of Thursday as unseasonably warm weather will continue with mid to upper 80s and a few 90s expected. A few more clouds are possible, especially for eastern portions of the state. It will remain dry. CATEGORY 3 HURRICANE MATTHEW: The streak had to end folks, and after over ten years with…

Opioid Epidemic Growing Across Alabama, Nation

Fifty-two million Americans ages 12 and older are a part of the growing epidemic of opioid abusers from all walks of life. That’s according to the Council On Substance Abuse. College student Chase Leland says he sees it as well. “The younger generation is definitely viewing substance abuse as the new norm now cause we are younger, as well,” said Leland….