Bill Murray
ABC 33/40 News
Vestavia Hills, AL, United States
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The Weather Authority: More sunshine and heat on the way
From the forecast of Bill Murray and the Alabama WX Weather Blog on abc3340. com: Heat is the story for the next week as high pressure remains in control of Alabama’s weather. ON THIS MORNING’S WEATHER MAPS. This morning, a high amplitude pattern persists across North American, with a huge upper low over the southwestern United States, and a big ridge over the southeastern U. S. SATURDAY HIGHS.… → Read More
The Weather Authority: Warm and dry during the day; Rain and storms return tonight
From the forecast of Bill Murray and the Alabama WX Weather Blog on abc3340. com: TORNADO WARNINGS: The National Weather Service in Birmingham has issued a. * Tornado Warning for. Southeastern Pickens County in west central Alabama. North central Greene County in west central Alabama. * Until 430 PM CDT. Radar. 24/7 Forecast. ----- April finished up as a fairly normal month, as Aprils go in… → Read More
The Weather Authority | Warm today, severe weather threat possible Monday and Wednesday
From the forecast of James Spann, Bill Murray and the Alabama WX Weather Blog: MAINLY DRY & WARM FOR CENTRAL ALABAMA TODAY. As of 11:00 am, skies across Central Alabama were mostly sunny except for the extreme northern parts of the area where clouds from a stalled surface boundary continue to hang out. No shower activity is on radar at the moment. Those clouds will continue to stay in that… → Read More
The Weather Authority | Winter storm to affect parts of Alabama
From the forecast of Bill Murray and James Spann - Alabama WX Weather Blog: Winter Storm Warnings Issued for West and North Alabama; Winter Storm Watch for Birmingham and Parts of Central Alabama. A significant winter storm will affect Alabama over the next 48 hours with potentially heavy mixed precipitation including freezing rain, sleet, and some snow. Temperatures across Northwest and North… → Read More
The Weather Authority | Freeze tonight for parts of North and North Central Alabama
From the forecast of Bill Murray and the Alabama WX Weather Blog:I hope that you set your clock back before going to bed last night. That way you didn’t miss out on that extra hour of sleep. That’s just one of many things to talk about, including the potential for a freeze overnight tonight and Tropical Storm Eta. Don’t worry, no threat to Alabama or the Gulf Coast. LOOKING BACK ON… → Read More
The Weather Authority | TS Sally forecast to become a hurricane on Monday
From the forecast of Bill Murray and the Alabama WX Weather Blog: 6:30 PM UPDATE: Tropical Storm Sally forecast to be a hurricane on Monday. TS Sally will produce very heavy rainfall resulting in widespread significant flash flooding and minor to isolated major river flooding acrossAlabama, southeastern Louisiana, and Mississippi through the middle of the week. 10:00 AM UPDATE: → Read More
The Weather Authority | Dry until midweek, late week showers and storms, cool next weekend
From the forecast of Bill Murray and the Alabama WX Weather Blog: Labor Day is sort of the unofficial end of summer for many folks, and for us weather humans, the first of September is the beginning of meteorological fall. An early-season cold front pushed through much of the state yesterday morning and it will give us just a hint of fall conditions in the form of lower humidities and slightly… → Read More
The Weather Authority
From the forecast of Bill Murray and the Alabama WX Weather Blog: ON THE WEATHER MAPS THIS MORNING. A huge upper-level ridge of high pressure covers the western United States with an amplifying trough over the eastern U. S. A developing low-pressure system to the east of us pulled drier air down into Alabama behind a weak frontal system on the backside of the low. At the surface, pressures are… → Read More
The Weather Authority | Rain chances go up, heat goes down this week
From the forecast of Bill Murray and the Alabama WX Weather Blog: Did you catch the conjunction of the Moon and Mars last evening in the eastern sky? It won’t be quite as impressive tonight as the two will be further apart but catch it if you can. BUT DO CATCH SOME PERSEIDS. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings before moonrise will be good times to catch the annual Perseids meteor shower. → Read More
The Weather Authority | Isaias scrapes Florida heading northward; Dry week for Alabama
From Bill Murray and the Alabama WX Weather Blog: We are tracking Hurricane Isaias this morning as it scrapes along the East Coast of Florida, getting ready to travel virtually the entire length of the U. S. East Coast. Fortunately, dry air and wind shear have been taking a toll on the storm and it is a shadow of what it might have been otherwise. ISAIAS AS OF 4 AM CDT: Isaias did weaken… → Read More
The Weather Authority | Shower and storm chances ramping up
Forecast from Bill Murray and the Alabama WX Weather Blog: Hurricane Hanna just ran out of ocean before it became a category two storm yesterday afternoon. It made landfall around 5 p. m. just north of Port Mansfield, Texas, between Corpus Christi and Brownsville. There is widespread wind damage around Port Mansfield, including rolled mobile homes and numerous downed power poles. A 103 mph wind… → Read More
The Weather Authority | High pressure to remain in control of Alabama’s weather
From Bill Murray and the ABC 33/40 Alabama WX Weather Blog:Ridging. There’s a great future in it as far as this weather forecast goes. Think about it. Will you think about it? APOLOGIES TO MR. MAGUIRE AND BENJAMIN BRADDOCK AND GRADUATE FANS EVERYWHEREWhile ridging may not have quite the ring that the famous line from “The Graduate” about plastics did, it certainly is just as important to our… → Read More
The Weather Authority | Strong storms today, heat is the story this week
Forecast from Bill Murray and the Alabama WX Weather Blog: You could barely find a cloud in the sky across Alabama on Saturday and the result was a hot afternoon. It was a “dry heat” with lower dewpoints behind a front that had settled over South Alabama, but still hot with highs in the lower and middle 90s. We will deal with a threat for severe weather today and then some of the hottest… → Read More
The Weather Authority | Rain chances on the increase again this week
From Bill Murray and the ABC 33/40 Weather Blog. We will get a little break from the heat over the next few days as showers and thunderstorm chances will be elevated a bit. But those temperatures will be inching back up toward the end of the week, and the weekend looks really hot. LOOKING BACK TO YESTERDAY. Saturday was a hot and humid day across Alabama with scattered strong storms across the… → Read More
The Weather Authority | Fewer storms today and tomorrow
From Bill Murray and the ABC 33/40 Weather Blog:Yesterday marked the latest sunset of the year at Birmingham, one of those little turning points in a year that you barely notice in the scheme of things. But in the slow tide of time, we will feel and see those days getting shorter now on the clock as well. ON THE WEATHERMAPSBig trough In the West, trough in the Northeast. In the middle, there is… → Read More
The Weather Authority | It’s Summertime, Summertime, Sum, Sum, Summertime!
From Bill Murray and the ABC 33/40 WX Weather Blog:Summer officially arrived Saturday afternoon and it felt like it across Alabama, with highs reaching well into the 90s. It was 91F at Anniston, 92F at Calera, 93F at Tuscaloosa, 94F at Birmingham, and 95F at Troy. The average high for Birmingham for today is 89F, which is right about where we will be today. Let’s walk through the forecast for… → Read More
The Weather Authority | An Omega Block and an Upper Level Low on the menu
From Bill Murray and the ABC 33/40 WX Weather Blog. Weather Authority B Murray (WX Blog) Today’s weather is brought to you by the Greek Letter Omega and our good friends at KS Services of course! It has a starring role in this forecast because of a famous weather feature called an Omega Block that is setting up across North America. → Read More
The Weather Authority | Beautiful Sunday, but things will be heating up
Forecast from Bill Murray and the ABC33/40 WX Weather Blog: Saturday was a beautiful day across North and Central Alabama and today promises to be another gorgeous one. Things will be heating up in coming days across the state as we say hello to Juneand. SAY GOODBYE TO MAY. The month of May will end up cooler than normal in Birmingham. The average temperature for the month will end up at 70. 6,… → Read More
The Weather Authority | Warm, humid, scattered showers/storms; rinse/repeat
Forecast from Bill Murray and the ABC33/40 WX Weather Blog:Saturday was stormy across much of Central Alabama as an unstable airmass erupted into thunderstorms for the second straight day. Some of the storms were strong and even severe. One of the storms produced a 42 mph wind gust at the Shuttlesworth Birmingham International Airport shortly after 6 p. m. In addition, 2. → Read More
The Weather Authority | Warmth Continues Through Tuesday, Slight Cool Down Beyond That
Today will be warm again, with afternoon readings ranging from 81F over Northeast Alabama to 87F around Montgomery. FOR YOUR SUNDAY: High pressure is centered near Orlando this morning. Temperatures are starting off in the 50x across the area, under partly cloudy skies. Today will be warm, as well as Monday and Tuesday, before a gradual cool-down commences Tuesday. Let’s dig into the forecast… → Read More