Ida’s Impacts on the Tennessee Valley
A  Timeline   Hurricane Ida will move across warm Gulf of Mexico waters on Monday; however, these waters will be cooler than those near the Yucatan and Cuba where she reintensified into a hurricane. As a result, she will likely weaken some as she approaches the AL/MS Gulf Coast. She will likely make landfall in between Gulfport, MS and Ft. Walton Beach, Florida late Monday evening/early Tuesday morning. As Ida approaches, the weather in the Valley will begin to slide downhill rather quickly. Rain will likely occur for our viewers south of the Tennessee River between 10 PM and Midnight, especially from Cullman County-DeKalb County. The

Weather Dependent Cash Crop
Cotton Delayed and Lower Quality Because of Recent Weather Tonight, WAAY-31’s Haley Baker reported on the way the recent weather has affected our local cotton crop.  With Madison County, AL, being the state’s largest county producer of Cotton, a bad year for Cotton affects us all. The National Cotton Cou

Carbon Atmosphere Discovered on Neutron Star
Here is another interesting story from our neighbors in the Valley at Marshall Space Flight Center. Evidence for a thin veil of carbon has been found on the neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. This discovery, made with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, resolves a 10-year mystery surrounding this object. “The compact star at the center of this famous supernova remnant has been an enigma since its discovery,” said Wynn Ho of the University of Southampton and lead author of a paper that appears in the latest issue of Nature. “Now we finally understand that it can be produced by a hot neutron star with a carbon atmosphere.” B

Share With Us Your Shotz
pix@waaytv.com, Subject: FALL As you are out and about this autumn and taking pictures of the scenery in NorthAlabama and Southern Middle Tennessee, many of you have chosen to share with us some of those images.  The pictures below are just 3 of those gorgeous images.  Periodically, I will be picking some of them out to share with the viewers of WAAY-31 News.  These three pictures below were used during a weathercast Monday, November 2, 2009.

Halloween Weekend Dynamics
Showers, Severe T-storms, and a COLD Breeze Move Through the Valley Rain and thunderstorms will be moving across the Tennessee Valley Friday Night and Saturday in the early morning hours.  Though this is the same storm causing severe weather and tornado damage in Louisiana and Arkansas Thursday and early Friday, it will not carry the same punch it has there as it moves through here. Keep in mind,