Severe Weather Season Ahead: MG&T hosting seminar on extreme weather in North Alabama tomorrow

Peak tornado season is here in North Alabama.

National Weather Service data shows that more tornadoes have occurred in March and April in Alabama than in any other month. A total of 475 and 609 tornadoes have been recorded in those months, respectively, over the last 100 hundred years.

Madison Greenways and Trails is helping North Alabamians be prepared and informed about the upcoming severe weather season with a lecture from NASA scientist Dr. Sarah Bang, titled The Nature of Extreme Weather in the Southeast.

Bang is a Remote Sensing Scientist at the Earth Science Branch of Marshall Space Flight Center. Her work focuses on the detection of lightning and hail from space to help with the prediction of, preparedness for, and response to severe weather.

Her talk, sponsored by Madison Greenways and Trails, will explore both national and regional weather patterns, how they’ve changed over the years, timelines of severe weather events, and tools that help predict and track severe storms.

“We’ll look in-depth on how thunderstorms form, and what ingredients are needed to make a storm strong enough to develop a tornado or hail,” said Bang. “I weave in some severe storm safety along with that, and share some good practices for situational awareness and weather safety.”

The Nature of Extreme Weather in the Southeast program will take place on Tuesday, March 4 at 6pm at the Madison Public Library.

Look for updates and more information about the event at hmcpl.com and learn more about Madison Greenways and Trails’ events and efforts on Facebook at Madison Greenway and Trails, Inc.