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Coming soon: More chills

Weather forecasts for Alabama have us staying fairly warm over the next several days, with rain chances here and there. But that doesn’t mean we’re emerging from winter chills, reports Leigh Morgan.

Beginning sometime late next week through the first week or so of March, longer-range forecasts show that we’re likely to see temperatures that are below-average for this time of year. For mid-February “average” would mean highs in the mid-50s to mid-60s and lows in the mid-30s to mid-40s, depending where you are in the state.

Going solo

Last week we reported that the popular radio show out of Birmingham, The Rick & Bubba Show, will end its 30-year run in December. Now we know that it’s likely co-host Rick Burgess will go solo with “The Rick Burgess Show” beginning in 2025, reports AL.com’s Mary Colurso.

Radio-industry sources are reporting that the president of the company that syndicates “Rick & Bubba” has confirmed the future show. If you listen to “Rick & Bubba,” you know that several guys who work on the show are also on-air personalities. We’ve heard no indication as to whether some of the staff would follow Burgess to his new show.

There’s also no word yet on format. On “Rick & Bubba” there’s a lot of humor and storytelling and cutting up as well as an emphasis on the co-hosts’ Christian faith. Burgess also heads up a men’s ministry called Man Church.

Going way back

Sharks teeth found in north Alabama have helped scientists discover two more ancient species, reports AL.com’s Howard Koplowitz.

Teeth from the big fish were also found in Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave.

Mammoth Cave National Park officials said said the two sharks — Troglocadodus trimblei and Glikmanium careforum — swam near shorelines in north Alabama more than 325 million years ago.

That’s so long ago that the continents have come together and then drifted back apart since.

Times a changin’

Landline phones may be about to go the way of telephone booths.

CNN recently reported on a filing by AT&T seeking permission to stop servicing traditional analog landline phones in California. Telephone-service providers are replacing old telephone lines with technology that doesn’t work on landlines, and, let’s face it, nobody’s adding landlines anymore.

Your kids already see old movies of someone dialing a rotary phone like we saw somebody hand-cranking a Model T from the front of the vehicle.

AT&T said it isn’t trying to cancel landline service in California. The plan is to offer customers an alternative to landlines that would convert analog to digital.

Whatever happened to just picking up the phone receiver and saying “Sarah, get me Juanita down at the diner”? That was service.

More Alabama news

Born on this date

In 1933, former 6-time LPGA tournament winner Jo Ann Prentice of Birmingham.

One the calendar

Here’s a reminder that Valentine’s Day is Feb. 14. For those who may be seeking a cathartic release rather than romance, if you give a $25 donation to Purrfect Partners of Mobile, the folks there will name a feral cat after your ex-boyfriend or ex-husband.

And then neuter it.

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