Many reports of light sleet across the area now…
Official reports at 7 p.m…
BHM…37F
EET…Shleby County Airport…37F
TCL…37F
K3AI…Cullman…32F
GAD..34F
A winter weather advisory continues for about the northern half of Alabama overnight.
It includes Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Etowah, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Jefferson, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Randolph, Shelby, St. Clair, Sumter, Talladega, Tuscaloosa, Walker and Winston Counties.
Gonna be a long night folks. The freezing line is northwest of Tuscaloosa and Birmingham. It will drop southward through the night as evaporational cooling continues.
Icing will develop on exposed objects and bridges first as the freezing line moves south. Heavier precipitation in Louisiana and Mississippi will head our way overnight. Rain, sleet and snow will be mixed early in the event. There will be a changeover to freezing rain for a period in the winter weather advisory area. Temperatures should warm toward morning, so the problems should be short lived and hopefully not to serious.
But…travel across the winter weather advisory area will become hazardius overnight and you should carefully check conditions before venturing out.
JEFFERSON COUNTY
…TRandle on ridge SE Of Trussville reports 33F and sleet…
…33F in Clay…light rain and sleet mix
…Concord…John Talbot reporting 35F with light rain/sleet.
TUSCALOOSA COUNTY
…John Terry reports light rain and sleet at 7:07 p.m.
…35F near Shelton State…
…Will Wallace in Cottondale reports 34F with loght rain/snow flurries.
WALKER COUNTY
…Jasper…cars and bushes encased in light layer of ice
ST. CLAIR COUNTY
…7:09…Phillip Johnson on Simmons Mtn. near Springville reports 30F with a light mix
CULLMAN COUNTY
7:04 p.m…Roads icing in Brushy Pond
MARION COUNTY
…Winfield Skywatcher reports icing on cars and windshields, but bridges only wet now…
…30F in Hamilton according to Jim Higgins…with a rain/sleet mix…
…Skywatcher reports ice coasting on garbage can and basketball goal…
…Jim Higgins in Hamilton reports steps and porch icing over…
…accident on Highway 43 north of Hamilton…could be weather related
…Hackleburg PD reports bridges iced over…asking DOT to come and sand them…
CHEROKEE COUNTY
…Matt Teal reports 34F with sleet…
MISSISSIPPI
NWS Jackson maintains an Ice Storm Warning for Central Mississippi overnight. Heavier freezing rain moving into Central Mississippi now. It includes the cities of Columbus, West Point and Starkville as well as the Delta Region, including Grenada, Greenwood and Greenville…up to one half inch of ice could accumulate.
30F at Columbus Airport, 32F at AFB.
A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect just south of this area into Vicksburg, Jackson and Forest.
