One week ago, we were already in the deep freeze with strong cold air advection in progress over Alabama. A week and a lot of cold air later, we are even deeper in the deep freeze, with more cold advection … Continue reading →

Precipitation continues to move eastward across Central Alabama this afternoon. North of a line from Gainesville to Coaling to to Pell City to Ashland, it is mainly light snow South of this line, it is mainly rain. Some heavier snow … Continue reading →

Scroll down for Dr. Tim’s excellent updated forecast discussion. Looking at the radar: Patches of light snow cover a good bit of Central Alabama generally from the I-65 corridor westward to the Mississippi border. East of that, lighter snow and … Continue reading →

…Spotty wintry precipitation over western half of Central Alabama. …Heavier snow entering Northwest Alabama shortly. An area of moderate to heavy snow is over Northeast Mississippi at this hour. It covers parts of Monroe, Clay, Lowndes and Oktibeeha Counties. It … Continue reading →

Precipitation has increased dramatically during the past hour over Mississippi. It is heaviest from Fulton to west of Columbus to near Kosciusko down to just north of Meridian. It is snow and sleet north of a line from Grenada to … Continue reading →

A mix of wintry precipitation is over western Alabama at this hour. From northern Pickens through Lamar, Fayette, Marion, Walker, Tuscaloosa and Winston counties….it is snow and sleet. Further south into Sumter County, it is a mix of sleet, freezing … Continue reading →

A series of strong Pacific storms began tracking into California shortly after the New Year began in 1995. The storms brought at least several inches of precipitation to most of the state, and dumping one to twelve feet of snow … Continue reading →

Not much change in forecast thinking based on the morning model runs. The GFS was weaker with the low, still showing a good band of snow moving through Alabama during the day Thursday. It was faster into the state, with … Continue reading →

An upper level disturbance moving out of Arkansas is producing widespread cloudiness from eastern Oklahoma into northern Mississippi and North Alabama. Light precipitation is showing up on radar across the northern quarter of Mississippi back into the Memphis area. It … Continue reading →

No real changes in the thinking. With each consistent model run, our confidence increases that this will be a very severe cold event with the chance of a significant snow thrown in for Thursday. From the 0z run of the … Continue reading →