The climate in Alabama is classified as humid subtropical (Cfa) under the Köppen Climate Classification.

In 1861, Alabama seceded from the United States to become part of the Confederate States of America, with Montgomery acting as its first capital. Alabama rejoined the Union in 1868.

Alabama is 23rd in the amount of surface water in the United States.

Invertebrates in Alabama include 97 crayfish species and 383 mollusk species.

There are 73 amphibian species in Alabama.

The Wetumpka crater is a 5-mile (8 km)-wide meteorite impact crater located in Elmore County, just north of Montgomery. It is considered Alabama’s greatest natural disaster, created by a meteorite impact about 80 million years ago.

Notable civil rights events in Alabama included the Montgomery bus boycott (1955–1956), Freedom Rides in 1961, and the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches. These events contributed to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting ...Read more

Snowfall is less frequent along Alabama’s Gulf Coast, sometimes going several years without any snowfall.

A super outbreak of 62 tornadoes hit Alabama in April 2011, killing 238 people and devastating many communities.

High-profile events such as the Selma to Montgomery marches made Alabama a major focal point of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.