Published on: January 28, 2009 at 9:26 AM

This is another one of those horizontal cross-sections showing how the temperature drops as you go from south to north. The line is not straight by any means and becomes wider in places.

Below this is an hour-by-hour of a temperature drop in Huntsville.

These are 8 o’clock reports:

67 Dothan
66 Evergreen
65 Montgomery
53 Birmingham
52 Tuscaloosa
42 Huntsville
38 Haleyville
39 Columbus, Miss.
35 Tupelo
30 Memphis
34 Nashville
28 Little Rock
27 Fort Campbell, Ky., light snow
28 Louisville, heavy snow, wind chill 16
12 West Plains, Mo., home of Merle Haggard
13 Kansas City, wind chill -1
St. Louis 15, wind chill 2
Des Moines 3, wind chill -10
12 Chicago, light snow wind chill zero
-22 in Good Ole Deadhorse, Alaska, wind chill -51

HOW FAST IT TURNED COLD IN HUNTSVILLE
64 at midnight, the high Tuesday was 69
64 at 1 am
63 at 2 am
61 at 3 am
63 at 4 am
62 at 5 am
57 at 5:09 am
55 at 5:17 am
54 at 5:45 am
53 at 5:53 am
47 at 6:53 am
43 at 7:53 am
40 at 9am

I will post a “Weather By The Numbers” later this morning.