Alan Sealls is retired TV Chief Meteorologist after 37 years & 16 Emmys. BS Cornell, MS FSU, AMS Fellow, Adjunct Professor, Author, Consultant, Expert Witness
Tonight I was awarded another regional Emmy Award, in the
@SuncoastEmmys
for a weather segment I did explaining the forces of a tornado. This makes 14 career Emmy Awards.
View of double waterspouts over Mobile Bay around 11am, by Kathleen Corelli Schneider on Fowl River in south Mobile County
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. These type waterspouts dissipate if they reach land
LAURA-MARCO CONFUSION lingers over images like this. It's critical to know that maps showing an overlap are showing location overlap, NOT time overlap. In other words, Laura may cross the same area of Marco, well-AFTER Marco is gone.
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I’m often asked where would if go if a tornado were headed to
@mynbc15
. We have separate weather office, with no windows or glass doors, mostly below ground. Using remote PC access, & wireless microphone, I can track warnings & radar to continue storm coverage.
#safeplaceselfie
Dramatic mirage- The Cochrane-Africatown Bridge in Mobile, seen from Fairhope Pier, about 15 miles away, using telephoto lens. Photo by David R. Black. Light refracts, or bends, toward more dense, or cooler, air. Mirages are common along
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area bays and coasts.
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Trees in soaked soil were pushed over by steady wind, while others were snapped or had limbs taken off by high wind with wind gusts. Video by Debbie Beckham in Irvington
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#HurricaneSally2020
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Thanksgiving
#weather
starts with buttery sunshine, wind as light as whipped cream. We'll be cool as cranberry sauce. PM clouds spread like mashed potatoes on a plate, followed by a drizzling. Just like stuffing, clouds break up on Friday, giving a day as pleasant as pumpkin pie.
It’s an exciting day! My good buddy will join us all on air tonight at 10:00!
@AlanSealls
is our new chief meteorologist at
@mynbc15
! I’m so glad to be working with such a weather expert and a great friend! Be sure to join us tonight at 10:00, after the Golden Globes Awards!
I didn't make the 47th Annual Suncoast Emmy Awards tonight, but I did win my 15th & 16th Emmy Awards 🏆🏆 for a weather segment and a compilation of my year's highlights... Thanks to
@SuncoastEmmys
for promoting broadcast excellence, and to the other chapters who judged.
@mynbc15
I've been given the honor of serving as the Grand Marshal for the 2023 Gulf Shores Mardi Gras parade, on February 21st. Yes, I hope it doesn't rain, either!
#GulfShores
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@City_GulfShores
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Before social media speculation takes you down the wrong path, the
#earthquake
today in southern
#California
is not related to Tropical Storm Hilary. Earthquakes are routine in that part of the world, although today's was stronger than typical.
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Before you ask, I’m guessing it was a sonic boom felt in west Mobile, Alabama at 10:12am!
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There’s rarely a way to confirm the cause.
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#Hurricane
Opal made landfall just southeast of Pensacola
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at Pensacola Beach in
@weather_history
25 years ago today, leaving lessons for how hurricanes can rapidly form and change strength
Paul T. Butler was at the right place at the right time to capture complete double rainbow, with anti-crepuscular rays. Anti-crepuscular are opposite the sun, crepuscular are looking toward the sun.
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A "vapor cone" on back end of
@BlueAngels
jet, by Doug Walker, not a sonic boom! The fast speed of the jet squeezes air in front (high pressure), and leaves low pressure behind. In the low pressure, temperature falls and relative humidity rises to 100%, forming cloud.
Six years ago, today, an EF-3 tornado moved through northern Escambia County, FL, into Escambia County, AL, striking Century, FL. Statistics are here
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Triple fair-weather
#waterspouts
, too tiny and low to be spotted by radar, sometimes happen in groups like these late-morning spouts near Coden
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Video by Sabrina Alexander
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@ICWR
@NWSMobile
A long time coming, my three
#weather
books are now available, just in time for Holiday gifting. In the next few weeks, I hope to have them in local bookstores in the
#mobilealabama
and surrounding area Here's one of them...
Clouds like these are part of the outer rainbands of
#TropicalStormSally
Here at
@mynbc15
we already had 3/4 inch rain since midday. Photo by Renae English Fowler
I have the honor of being a featured subject in "That Could Be ME! Alabama: Journeys To STEM Careers" - a series of children’s books created by teens celebrating
#STEM
heroes of Alabama. I don't make any money from this!
#education
#Alabama
#literacy
On the Mobile-Spanish Fort causeway, at 3:35pm. Thunderstorm with shelf cloud. Yet another reason for slow Bayway and Causeway traffic. ☹️
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@NWSMobile
Cat 4
#HurricaneDelta
No one computer model is best in all storms and situations. Expect daily changes. Focus on what's most likely, not trivial. Pre-plan for various what-if scenarios. Don't think all social media posts with a lot of likes necessarily have value. Stay updated.
Huge difference in AC filter after less than 10 weeks of use in 🥵 high temperatures. Don’t judge me! I normally change more frequently. Check yours and the gooey condensate buildup that causes clog, overflow and unneeded emergency HVAC call 📞 💸 !
After the
#thunderstorms
⛈️moved south in Mobile County
#Alabama
, “spider lightning” ⚡️Not “heat lightning!” This video is slowed down to 1/3 actual speed. The clicking sound is a nearby camera shutter. Heat lightning is an old misnomer.
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TORNADO or HURRICANE SAFETY in open floorplan home or home with no standalone interior room: You want to be in the smallest room, with the fewest outside walls, and no windows. That might be a closet or bathroom, or maybe a laundry area.
#tornado
#hurricane
#safety
Be sure to check out my four-part series on climate change, in
@LagniappeMobile
Pick up a copy, free in Mobile & Baldwin Counties, or subscribe online.
A meteorologist is always looking up. Today I was looking down, around my yard, to see what was new. A good lesson for the kids- to see what's growing, budding, digging, and living in your personal ecosystem.
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Do not underestimate the range of possible impact with TS Sally in the
@mynbc15
area. It will strengthen and slow, to make a turn tomorrow, making forecasts difficult. Hurricane Warnings now cover Mobile & Baldwin Counties
As
#HurricaneDelta
makes landfall, Lake Charles is without a National Weather Service Doppler radar, due to
#HurricaneLaura
. Nearby radars supply enough information to fill in the data gaps but there will be details missed.
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Incoming gust front... The view from Fly Creek marina in Daphne
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, by Patrick Gormandy. If you are along Mobile Bay, and haven't gotten wet yet, you will see this coming.
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As of noon,
#Mobile
#Alabama
is 100° and climbing. Yesterday, we set an all-time record high of 106° (Records go back to 1872). As of today, Mobile has hit 100° or above, 11 times this month. That is also a record number for a year. A typical year gets us to 100° once.
Who remembers? ...in 1995, on this day in
@weather_history
, Hurricane Erin struck Pensacola
#flwx
. It was the first direct
#hurricane
strike there since 1926.
WIND ADVISORY for strong SE wind continues in
@mynbc15
area. Expect coastal flooding, and eastbound Mobile-Spanish Fort Causeway flooding, especially as we near high tide in a few hours. Severe weather threat increases toward sunset. Stay alert.
An even colder and longer stretch of frigid air around Christmas in 1989 left the nearshore of Mobile Bay
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frozen, and holding on to some of the snow that fell. It included two nights in single digits and two days stuck in the 20s. Point Clear photo by Emily Ellis Richards