MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) – The Alabama Emergency Management Agency announced Wednesday a partnership with weather technology company Climavision that is expected to expand weather radar coverage across the state.
According to Alabama EMA officials, this partnership is meant to provide AEMA and local emergency managers with visibility into weather conditions in regions that were previously unobservable, and therefore vulnerable to unpredictable weather events.
Climavision, which has been working in Alabama since 2021, operates three of its radars in areas historically considered “radar gaps” or large swaths of land where lower atmospheric region aren’t observed at all…