The following useful preparedness content is provided by our friends at Alabama Power. Their generous sponsorship helps make AlabamaWX’s content possible. From Ike Pigott, Alabama Power Weather forecasts are a tricky business, and winter weather can be some of the … Continue reading →

Mixed precipitation is spreading across North and North Central Alabama tonight ahead of an approaching upper level disturbance even as colder air is slowly filtering into the state from the north. North of a line from Russellville to Moulton to … Continue reading →

Clouds are thick across Central Alabama this afternoon. You can see the precipitation over Arkansas and northern Texas ahead of the next disturbance that will bring a potential wintry mix to North and North Central Alabama late tonight and early Monday. … Continue reading →

We continue to carefully monitor the latest indications from models and synoptic data about the potential threat of wintry precipitations late tonight through early Monday morning and again early Tuesday morning. Once again, these are low probability, low certainty but … Continue reading →

Temperatures are above freezing late tonight along and south of a line from Fayette to Birmingport to the Birmingham Airport to Talladega to Lincoln to Jacksonville. A batch of light to moderate rain and freezing rain is passing out of … Continue reading →

Light to moderate freezing rain is moving across parts of Marion, Fayette and Walker Counties at this hour. Temperatures are at or just below freezing across the area. Light accumulations of ice will continue to fall in these counties and … Continue reading →

Not telling you anything you didn’t know if you have been reading the blog, but Emergency Managers across the area have issued a Civil Emergency Message requesting people to limit travel to emergencies this evening and overnight in Northeast Alabama. … Continue reading →

The NWS has extended the Winter Weather Advisory until 9 p.m. for Fayette, Jefferson, Lamar, Marion, Walker and Winston Counties. Temperatures have been slow to rise across these counties. It is still 32F at Jasper and 31F at the Birmingham … Continue reading →

The band of freezing rain and sleet moving across the northern half of Jefferson County is resulting in hazardous road conditions. Gardendale PD is shutting down I-65 north and southbound at exit 275 because of ice according to John Talbot. … Continue reading →

It is colder than the models and forecasts expected early this afternoon across Central Alabama and that has led to concerns that icing could be a bigger problem than originally expected. The airmass over Alabama is still very dry, which … Continue reading →