If you are watching radar this evening, a lot of the precipitation that you see over West Alabama is not reaching the grouind.
It is evaporating on the way down.
Evening sounds show that the air over Birmingham is extremely dry in about the lower 12,000 feet. However it will moisten as the evening goes on.
A Winter Weather Watch continues for nearly the north half of the state. Temperatures are already down to freezing over NW Alabama.
Here in Central Alabama, little or no danger of travel problems for the next few hours. Problems that develop will most likely be in the 9 pm to daybreak time window but some in West Alabama may be a little earlier.
There will be a mix of light rain, freezing rain and sleet. Probably the better chance will be near the I-20 corridor northward.
6 PM CST SPOT REPORTS
37 cloudy Tuscaloosa
38 cloudy Birmingham Airport
32 cloudy Muscle Shoals
32 light freezing rain Columbus, Miss.
30 cloudy Haleyville, NW Alabama
