Birmingham, AL Weather
Today's Forecast
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 73. North wind 0 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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Last updated Sun, Aug 23, 4:26 AM UTC
Winter in Birmingham
Birmingham averages 1 inches of snow a year, according to NOAA’s 1991–2020 climate normals — a rare snow place. Snow is unusual here. An inch is enough to close schools because almost nothing is set up to clear it.
That is why local snowfall thresholds differ so much from one town to the next: a district that plans for 1 inches a year is equipped differently from one that never sees any. Here, roughly 1 inches in a single storm is where a normal school day comes under threat.
Upper air over Birmingham
The nearest radiosonde launch is Birmingham, about 24 miles away. A weather balloon goes up twice a day and measures temperature, humidity and wind all the way through the atmosphere — which is what forecasters actually read to judge whether storms will fire, and how a surface forecast was arrived at.