Widespread precipitation, except Extreme NW and temperatures are slowly falling. Some late reports:
35 sleet at Birmingham Airport
36 Tuscaloosa, light snow and also sleet in the area
36 in Muscle Shoals
35 Huntsville
33 light sleet Concord/Hueytown in West Jefferson County
At one time, precipitation had diminished or ended over NW Mississippi but that area is now filling in again.
NWS continues their forecast of 1 to 2 inches of snow accumulation for the Birmingham area, occurring this morning and tapering off this afternoon. Totals may be heavier south of Birmingham where a Heavy Snow Warning continues.
Sleet has been reported as far north as Steele in North St. Clair County.
Sleet has been heavy at times in Tuscaloosa County, accumulating up to one inch on cars at Coker.
WHERE IS THE LOW PRESSURE AREA?
4 am position was over the NW Gulf of Mexico. It has triggered a cluster of thunderstorms over the NW Gulf with considerable lightning. Offshore winds off the Louisiana Coast are out of the NNE at up to 40 mph.
