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Jefferson, Tuscaloosa and Pickens Being Upgraded to Winter Storm Warning
The NWS is upgrading Jefferson, Tuscaloosa and Pickens Counties from a Freezing Rain Advisory to a Winter Storm Warning. Numerous reports of freezing rain and sleet accumulating across Northwest and West Central Alabama and more precipitation upstream to the southwest … Continue reading
7 a.m. Reports
Freezing rain is beginning to glaze objects in Blount County around Hayden. Thundersleet being reported in Fayette in Fayette County and at Detroit in Lamar County. Accumulations starting. Accumulations are also beginning around Sulligent in Lamar COunty. One half inch … Continue reading
Forecast On Track
The only change this morning is that the NWS Mobile has added a freezing rain advisory for Choctaw County. Click on the image to expand it and see the NWS advisories and warnings across the region, as well as the … Continue reading
Amazing Temperature Contrast
Look at the temperature contrast in the drive up Corridor X from Birmingham to Memphis. A swing of 46 degrees between Jasper and Olive Branch! The front has passed Tupelo where the temperature dropped from 75F at 1:53 to 58F … Continue reading
Warnings Issued
The NWS in Hunstville has issued a Winter Storm Warning for its Tennessee Valley counties starting at 3 a.m. Thursday morning and going until 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon. it includes: Colbert, Cullman, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan, De Kalb, … Continue reading
Severe Weather Survey
WeatherBrains Panelist Rick Smith, who is the outstanding Warnings Coordination Meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma, has been working with a couple of very bright OU senior met students on their Capstone project, which involves learning how … Continue reading
Event Winding Down
Snow is limited to the northeastern quarter of Alabama at this hour, but it has been a historic storm for North Alabama. A 1004 mb surface low moving across the northern Gulf of Mexico was the culprit. The bullseye was … Continue reading
Snowing in Homewood, Hoover, Vestavia…
Reports are starting to flow in on social media of snowflakes in Homewood, Hoover and Vestavia. Here is the radar with the correlation coefficient product showing the snowing… You can see the areas where it is snowing behind the transition … Continue reading
First 10″ Report
The NWS reports that there is 10″ of snow in Guin in Marion County. That is the first double digit snow report. LATE REPORT Phil Campbell has checked in with 10 inches snow as well. TUSCALOOSA It sounded like a … Continue reading
