UPDATED AT NOON TO ADD THE FOLLOWING:
* 7 ADDITIONAL ALABAMA REPORTS
* GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN DATA
* SNOW TOTALS IN NE CORNER OF TENNESSEE (See all this at end of this report)
ALABAMA LOW TEMPERATURES
14 Grantley*
15 Desoto State Park
16 Muscadine
17 Rainbow City (from the legendary “Hot Choclate Lady”)
18 McCalla, Kimberly, Concord/Hueytown, Fort Payne Airport, Lincoln
19 Munford,Moody, Hamilton, Reece City, Pinson, SW Lamar County, Crossville, Cottondale
20 Vinemont, Hokes Bluff, Coker, Bankhead National Forest
21 Moody*, Alabaster/Navajo Pines, Clay, Anniston, Decatur, Huntsville, Muscle Shoals, Meridianville, Cullman Airport
22 Helena, Noccalula Falls, Trussville, Ingramtown, Jasper
23 Trussville, Springville/Simmons Mountain*
24 Jemison, Birmingham Airport (we had forecast 26, my fault) Montgomery, Troy
25 Trussville, Auburn, Shelby County Airport, Tuscaloosa, Albertville
26 Evergreen
27 Verbana, Selma
29 Dothan
30 Mobile Regional Airport
* This morning was the 22nd day this season with below freezing at Springville.
* Grantley is located in North Cleburne County not far from the Georgia border. It is also east of Piedmont near the Dugger Mountain Wilderness area, It gets very cold there on long winter nights. This was the 74th morning since December 1 with freezing or lower and 20th day that it was below 20!
* the 21 in Moody was 45th time this season with below freezing
* 23 at Springville represented the 22nd day below freezing. Naturally, they would not have as many sub-freezing days since our Skywatcher is located on Simmons Mountain (a very pretty area, I might add)
GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS
*The snow is 5 inches deeper atop Mt. Leconte with a whopping 22 inches on the ground this morning! Very cold, too. The low up there this morning was 1 below zero after a high yesterday of only 5 above.
* 22 inches on Mt. Leconte, low this morning 1 below zero!
* 12 inches of snow on Newfound Gap with a low of 6 above zero
* 1 inch on the ground in Cades Cove
* 5 inches at Gatlinburg with a low of 17 this morning (Sugarland Center)
EXTREME NORTHEAST TENNESSEE (Thanks to Bill McMillan)
* 7 inches at Mountain City
* 9 to 11 inches in the Trade community
* 6 to 7 inches in Shady Valley
* 12 inches on Stone Mountain (not the Georgia one!)
