Photo: Tracking Gustav. soldiermediacenter/Flickr.
For those of you wanting to keep track of what’s going on with Hurricane Gustav, there are several ways to find out, including a page created to keep track of tweets and website links about the major hurricane currently preparing for landfall in the Gulf Coast, set up on JazzyChad.com.
Here in Birmingham [...]

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Hyacinth in Snow. James Faivre/Special to bhamterminal.com.
While we got just enough to make it interesting for those that woke up early this Saturday morning in Birmingham, you really wouldn’t be able to tell that we’d gotten a taste of winter the Friday before Daylight Savings Time begins for the U.S.
James Faivre’s image shows that there [...]

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Snow in Alabama. Southernpixel/Flickr
The word is that residents in Jefferson and Shelby Counties should be expecting to see about 1 ½ inches of the white stuff when they wake up in the morning. It’s a little ironic, considering it’s almost the 15th anniversary of The Blizzard of ‘93. Maybe we’ll see some more images like [...]

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That’s the word from the state’s chief climatologist, John Christy is trying to accomplish. Tommy Stevenson decided to republish this article from earlier this month to help get the word out on his Tuscaloosa News blog. It gives a much more personalized account of what’s necessary to help the state in its efforts to accurately [...]

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