Behind The Front

J-P Dice talks to his niece about keeping weather all in the family. She is now a meteorologist in Syracuse. What’s the weather like in upstate New York? This episode of Behind the Front is sponsored by Durante Home Exteriors. Click Here or Call: (205) 956-4110 to learn how Durante can help protect your home from the weather.

WBRC Chief Meteorologist J-P Dice is getting to the bottom of why false weather information circulates the internet. This turns out to be a lesson in psychology and an interview with UAB psychologist Dr. Josh Kaplow sheds light on people’s motivation for sharing false information and how unconscious biases can influence not viewers but also meteorologists. This episode of Behind the Front is sponsored by Durante Home Exteriors. Click Here or Call: (205) 956-4110 to learn how Durante can help protect your home from the weather.

WBRC Chief Meteorologist J-P Dice and research meteorologist and consultant Dr. Tim Coleman break down Undular bores. This weather phenomenon sent strange shelf-like clouds across our viewing area and now you’ll learn just how peculiar these events can be. This episode of Behind the Front is sponsored by Durante Home Exteriors. Click Here or Call: (205) 956-4110 to learn how Durante can help protect your home from the weather.

This week on Behind the Front WBRC Chief Meteorologist J-P Dice is answering listener weather questions.   This episode of Behind the Front is sponsored by Durante Home Exteriors. Click Here or Call: (205) 956-4110 to learn how Durante can help protect your home from the weather.

WBRC FOX6 Meteorologist J-P Dice talks about how weather impacts flight safety. J-P is the chief meteorologist at WBRC FOX6 News. He is also a certified flight instructor with close to 2,000 hours of flight time.     This episode of Behind the Front is sponsored by Durante Home Exteriors. Click Here or Call: (205) 956-4110 to learn how Durante can help protect your home from the weather.

We’re currently in the midst of the Atlantic hurricane season and WBRC Chief Meteorologist J-P Dice talks with Meteorologist Paul Dellegatto of WTVT FOX13 in Tampa as the tropics get busy. It’s been a fairly active season with eight tropical depressions so far and still at least a month to go for the traditional hurricane season. Dice and Dellefatto discuss climate patterns and how these types of storms have behaved in the past and what they think will happen in the future. This episode of Behind the Front is sponsored by Durante Home Exteriors. Click Here or Call: (205) 956-4110 to learn how Durante can help protect your home from the weather.

This week on Behind the Front, WBRC Chief Meteorologist J-P Dice and WBRC meteorologist Jill Gillardi explain how the summer weather can affect your pets. Hot pavement on paws and thunderstorm anxiety are just a few of the things you might want to be aware of as we press through these summertime highs! This episode of Behind the Front is sponsored by Durante Home Exteriors. Click Here or Call: (205) 956-4110 to learn how Durante can help protect your home from the weather.

It’s hurricane season and WBRC Chief Meteorologist J-P Dice says radar indicates it could be an active one. This week he talks with Captain Will Simmons of the 53rd weather reconnaissance squadron, otherwise known as the Hurricane Hunters. Captain Simmons and his team fly into hurricanes to collect valuable data. With close to 100 hours logged with the Hurricane Hunters, Captain Simmons has seen a lot. Listen to his firsthand account of the beauty and terror these ocean storms. This episode of Behind the Front is sponsored by Durante Home Exteriors. Click Here or Call: (205) 956-4110 to learn how Durante can help protect your home from the weather.

Imagine hearing stories from a storm chaser. Yes, it is as cool as it sounds. WBRC Chief Meteorologist J-P Dice sits down with Brett Adair, a professional storm chaser who has seen some incredible things during his career. He’s had a few close calls, but his bond with mother nature is unbreakable. It’s a fascinating interview about a man who quit his 9-5 job to chase supercells across the terrain. This episode of Behind the Front is sponsored by Durante Home Exteriors. Click Here or Call: (205) 956-4110 to learn how Durante can help protect your home from the weather.

WBRC Chief Meteorologist J-P Dice chats with meteorologist Jill Gilardi about the unpredictability of summer showers. They also discuss other unpredictable situations like working from home, the demolition of the weather studio and the strange appetite of Good Day Alabama meteorologist Mickey Ferguson. This episode of Behind the Front is sponsored by Durante Home Exteriors. Click Here or Call: (205) 956-4110 to learn how Durante can help protect your home from the weather.

This week on Behind the Front WBRC Chief Meteorologist J-P Dice and meteorologist Wes Wyatt discuss the effects of dust in the atmosphere as it travels from the Sahara Desert. The two also discuss some exciting changes coming to the WBRC studio and how the changes will impact the weather team. Plus, Wes works with the community to get a weather camera installed on the campus of the University of Montevallo. Find out how the installation is contributing to our FIRST ALERT Weather coverage. This episode of Behind the Front is sponsored by Durante Home Exteriors. Click Here or Call: (205) 956-4110 to learn how Durante can help protect your home from the weather.

Think you know lightning? Where it comes from, what it means, how to handle it? Well, WBRC Chief Meteorologist J-P Dice will put your knowledge to the test.   J-P and John Deblock, Warning Coordination Meteorologist with the Birmingham National Weather Service, are sifting through lightning fact and fiction. What you learn may change how you handle lightning next time it strikes.   This episode of Behind the Front is sponsored by Durante Home Exteriors. Click Here or Call: (205) 956-4110 to learn how Durante can help protect your home from the weather.

WBRC FOX6 News Chief Meteorologist talks to Dr. Tim Coleman about forensic meteorology. Dr. Coleman works with companies and attorneys relating to how the weather impacts incidents like insurance claims. This episode of Behind the Front is sponsored by Durante Home Exteriors. Click Here or Call: (205) 956-4110 to learn how Durante can help protect your home from the weather.

WBRC Chief Meteorologist J-P Dice uses two of his expertise to bring us this week’s episode of Behind The Front. Flying and meteorology go hand-in-hand and J-P breaks down the difference weather can make when you’re traveling through the air. This episode of Behind the Front is sponsored by Durante Home Exteriors. Click Here or Call: (205) 956-4110 to learn how Durante can help protect your home from the weather.

WBRC Chief Meteorologist J-P Dice talks with WBRC Meteorologist Matt Daniel. Matt works the early-morning shift, doing weather for Good Day Alabama and he and J-P Dice rarely cross paths when they’re in the studio. Now that they’re working from home it presented the perfect opportunity for the two meteorologists to catch up and answer some of your questions. This episode of Behind the Front is sponsored by Durante Home Exteriors. Click Here or Call: (205) 956-4110 to learn how Durante can help protect your home from the weather.

What goes into the weather center of a new TV studio? That’s what WBRC Chief Meteorologist J-P Dice wants to discuss with Josh Johnson, Chief Meteorologist at WSFA, our sister station in Montgomery.   Josh talks about the decision making that goes into designing a weather set and how quickly they had to put the new space to use when unexpected severe rolled through before they could even get comfortable.   This episode of Behind the Front is sponsored by Durante Home Exteriors. Click Here or Call: (205) 956-4110 to learn how Durante can help protect your home from the weather.

WBRC Chief Meteorologist J-P Dice likes to answer your questions from time to time. This is one of those times, when J-P hops on Facebook to find out what’s on everyone’s mind. Some of the questions and answers may surprise you. This episode of Behind the Front is sponsored by Durante Home Exteriors. Click Here or Call: (205) 956-4110 to learn how Durante can help protect your home from the weather.

WBRC Chief Meteorologist J-P Dice talks to WBRC meteorologist Jill Gilardi about the unexpected impact COVID-19 is having on the reliability of model data. This episode of Behind the Front is sponsored by Durante Home Exteriors. Click Here or Call: (205) 956-4110 to learn how Durante can help protect your home from the weather.

When it comes to weather, there is always something new to learn - even if you’re a veteran meteorologist. WBRC Chief Meteorologist J-P Dice talks with Dr. Tim Coleman, a researcher at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, about wake lows.   Wake lows are a high-wind weather event that aren’t very common but cause damage very similar to tornadoes. When a wake low made its way through the WBRC viewing area in late April 2020 it ripped up massive trees and destroyed homes, so J-P aims to shed some light on these high winds. This episode of Behind the Front is sponsored by Durante Home Exteriors. Click Here or Call: (205) 956-4110 to learn how Durante can help protect your home from the weather.

Tornadoes and storms that hit Alabama on Easter destroyed homes and changed some lives forever. WBRC Chief Meteorologist J-P Dice looks closely at the FIRST ALERT Weather Day, how he saw the signs it could be bad and what scientists have learned since the severe weather. This episode of Behind the Front is sponsored by Durante Home Exteriors. Click Here or Call: (205) 956-4110 to learn how Durante can help protect your home from the weather.