Before the waking hour on this Friday morning, it was raining in all corners of Alabama and some of the rain was heavy.
Credit that to a low pressure area in the Gulf of Mexico that has become better organized during the night. The low was centered just before daybreak over the North Central Gulf south of the Mississippi-Alabama Coast. It will move NE spreading bad weather over a wide area.
Rain was heavy over much of South Central Alabama. Also an area of moderate to heavy rain more to the north across Pickens, Fayette, Walker, Cullman and Blount County. The rain continues to spread north.
NWS has a Wind Advisory until at least 2 pm today as east winds will gust as high as 30 mph at times. A Flash Flood Watch also for a number of counties.
Just before daybreak, temperatures were near 40 over much of North Alabama and mid to upper 40s over most of the South. Even some upper 30s East Alabama making the rain and cold more pronounced.
SPOT REPORTS AT 4 AM CST
Haleyville…38 with steady rain
Tuscaloosa…42, light rain
Birningham…40, light rain
Montgomeery…41, moderate rain, wind NE 13
Anniston…40, light rain
Mobile…48, steady, moderate rain, gusts to 21
Troy…41, moderate rain
Pensacola…56, heavy rain, wind NE 17
East Dauphin Island…wind east 28, gusts to 34
In Mississippi, heavy rain at Meridian and Hattiesburg. In Louisiana, both New Orleans and Slidell reporting heavy rain, wind gusts to 31 at New Orleans.
The misery will spread toward the NE all the way up the east coast. These notes:
ATLANTA
A Flood Watch through Friday evening. A Wind Advisory until midnight Friday night. This is true also for a number of Georgia Counties, not just the Atlanta area.
Numerous counties under some sort of wintry weather threat all the way from North and Western North Carolina through Eastern Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia northward to Pennsylvania and New Jersey and the NYC area.
ASHEVILLE
That Western North Carolina City is under a Winter Storm Warning for today and tonight. Sleet and snow will accumulate 4 to 8 inches today and an additional 4 to 6 inches tonight. So the total is 8 to 14 inches! Not just Asheville but other parts of Western North Carolina also.
WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE
A Winter Storm Warning from midnight Friday night all the way until 6 am Sunday.
Watch for the morning video discussion. James will be along at 6 am or soon thereafter,
Stay warm
Stay dry
Allow extra drive time fpr morning rush
Don’t tailgate my white ’96 Olds!
