Published on: January 3, 2010 at 2:43 PM

Roundup of official 2 pm temperatures. Take heart, this list niot nearly as long!

ALABAMA
32 Muscle Shoals and Huntsville, wind chill 26
31 Haleyville, wind chill 23
34 Gadsden, wind chill 25
40 Tuscaloosa, wind chill 34
35 Birmingham, wind chill 29
34 Anniston, wind chill 29
31 Cullman Airport, wind chill 24
44 Mobile
(All Alabama stations sunny)

ALABAMA’S HIGHEST POINT
28 atop 2407-foot Mt. Cheaha, wind chill 24, gusts 22 mph. The low this morning was 22. The Skycam view is so sharp and clear that it seems like you could see all the way to China if the world was flat!

FOUR MORE
14 Kansas City, wind chill 3
14 St. Louis
6 Omaha, wind chill -8
18 Chicago, wind chill 6

WHERE IS THE MEAN OLE HIGH PRESSURE AREA?
The center has shifted east a bit to the SW shore of Hudson Bay near the Polar Capitol of the world. The central pressure at 2 pm, CST, was 1041 MB. However, the high extends as a ridge southward into the middle of the USA, roughly to about Missouri.