Radar at 3:45 EARLY on this Saturday morning showed a large solid mass of rain and drizzle over about the south 2/3 of Alabama.
You could draw a line across the north from about Fayette east through Jasper, Oneonta and Gadsden and there was almost no precipitation north of that line.
Earlier, NWS, Birmingham, cancelled the Winter Weather Advisory. They replaced it with a Freezing Rain Advisory (or Freezing Drizzle Advisory) for these counties until 8 o’clock this morning:
Marion
Lamar
Fayette
Winston
Walker
Blount
Etowah
Calhoun
Cherokee
Cleburne
Talladega
This means that the Birmingham-Tuscaloosa area is no longer under any type of advisory. (This does not mean that an isolated report of light freezing rain may come in)
A look at some spot reports:
ALABAMA
34 cloudy Huntsville
33 cloudy Decatur
28 cloudy Haleyville
32 cloudy Gadsden
35 light rain Tuscaloosa
34 light rain Birmingham
38 mixed precipitation Montgomery
34 rain Shelby County Airport
35 light rain Anniston
37 light rain Alexander City
34 cloudy Auburn
41 rain Mobile
REGIONAL
34 freezing rain Greenville, Miss.
30 cloudy Tupelo and Columbus
36 light rain Jackson
35 rain Meridian
31 freezing drizzle Memphis
33 cloudy Nashville
35 cloudy Atlanta (Peachtree City)
By far the most icing from this storm was in Mississippi where there were numerous automobile accidents Friday and Friday night. The freezing rain never did really get underway in Alabama.
COLD SPOT
Coldest in all 50 states Friday was 53 below zero at Chandalar Lake, Alaska.
