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James Max Spann Jr. (born June 6, 1956) is a television meteorologist, and podcast host based in Birmingham, Alabama. [1] He currently works for WBMA-LD (ABC 33/40), Birmingham's ABC affiliate. Spann has worked in the field since 1978. [2] He also hosts the podcast WeatherBrains, which he started in 2006. [3] [4] [5]
One of the worst aspects of covering severe weather as an on-air meteorologist became a reality on Thursday, March 25, as one forecaster covered a tornado-warned storm tracking over his home ...
12:59 p.m.: James Spann, a television meteorologist in Birmingham, tweeted from his personal X account (formerly Twitter) about the impacts of the Alabama-Georgia top-five matchup from Tuscaloosa ...
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Chief meteorologist James Spann has stated that social media makes it easier to warn the public of impending severe weather. [48] Facebook and Twitter were also used in the weeks following the April 27, 2011, tornado outbreak to report – among other things – damage, missing persons and effects of the storm on the people of Alabama. [49]
WBRC also lost several longtime anchors and reporters to the W58CK/WCFT/WJSU trimulcast at that time, including news anchors Linda Mays and Brenda Ladun, meteorologists James Spann (who himself reportedly left WBRC due to his disapproval over the edgier content of Fox's programming) and Mark Prater, and sports anchor Mike Raita.
An intense blast of cold air shattered records in the central United States this week with temperatures up to 50 degrees below average. The bitter cold is pushing into the South and East to end ...
John Oldshue is a former meteorologist [1] and storm chaser for ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, Alabama, from 1997 to 2011, before he retired to run a small business.He won an Emmy award for coverage of the Tuscaloosa tornado on December 16, 2000, alongside meteorologist James Spann.