* Nearest rain to Alabama this morning is a few light showers near Las Vegas! That may not be reaching the ground.
* The weather is very quiet, especially for this time of the year. Could not find a single lightning stroke on National lightning detection sources.
* Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, Okla., getting a breather. They do not show even a slight risk anywhere until Friday when there is a Slight Risk for Arkansas and Extreme South Missouri.
* A clear, chilly early morning across Alabama. A few sample lows:
…39 Lookout Mountain near Collinsville
…32 heavy frost in the valley at Collinsville
…31 north of Fayette
…32 in Coker with moderate frost
…29 Russellville
…31 McCalla, Cullman
…39 Birmingham, Anniston
* The snow cover for the Lower 48 states has dwindled to 37% this morning. It was 60% a month ago today. Mild weather has caused some rapid melting in parts of the Great Plains and Midwest.
* The warmest temperature in the USA yesterday was 88 at six locations in South Florida including Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Coldest this morning, 20 below at at Crane Lake, Minn., and 38 below at Northway, Alaska.
* Kotzebue, Alaska still has 79 inches of snow. I suppose you pronounce that “Coats-e-bue?
* Amazingly, the snow depth on Mt. LeConte in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a flat zero this morning! There is also no snow on Newfound Gap, Gatlinburgg and Cades Cove. No wonder, the high on Mt. Leconte yesterday was 46 and 55 in Cades Cove.
* Closing this story with an interesting weather (or climate) fact. Fairbanks is the champion of any American city when it comes to the difference in summer and winter. There is a 91-degree difference in their average temperature between summer and winter!
