BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) – Starting Friday morning, the National Weather Service radar that services central Alabama will be down for upgrades. While the radar is offline, some rain and storms are expected to move through the area.
However, NWS say this outage is not reason to panic. Despite the downed radar, the NWS says the area will still be covered Friday.
“We have so much overlap here in the state of Alabama. We have multiple radars from Huntsville down to Mobile,” NWS Birmingham Meteorologist in Charge Chris Darden said. “If we go down, like [Friday], we’re going to be down [Friday] into Saturday, but really we won’t see a lot of degradation of service.”…