MID MORNING SPOT REPORTS
Huntsville…34 light snow
Decatur…30 light snow
Muscle Shoals…30 light snow
Memphis…32 light snow
Jackson, Tenn.,…30 light snow, visibility down to 1/2 mile
Tunica, Miss.,…32 light snow, one inch on roads
OTHER REPORTS
* One inch of snow has accumulated on roads and bridges in and around Tunica, Miss., just south of the memphis area. Several accidents reported.
* One inch [...]

It would be interesting to know what the total bill for this winter will be for all the damage to forests from freezing rain, the utility companies and also the municipal governments for snow and ice removal.
I heard some press reports several weeks ago, that a number of the cities in the Midwest and Northeast [...]

Many square miles of the South Central USA eastward now under the gun for a serious winter with major icing problems. This includes near blizzard conditions in places like Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. A mid-morning surface analysis shows that the low pressure area is already under development over South and West Texas with a [...]

Bad, bad weather in the Far West and covering a wide area. Here are some examples:
CALIFORNIA
* Gust to 50 mph at mid-afternoon yesterday east of Lakeside in San Diego County. One person was killed and another injured. Several weather stations along the San Diego County Coast reported gusts over 50 mph as a narrow band [...]

Here we go with another list of low temperatures around the great state of Alabama, home of the Paint Rock River Valley, DeSoto State Park and Demopolis. Hope you don’t mind that I occasionally roam far and wide.
ALABAMA (Thanks to Jason for helping)
11 Oneonta
12 Russellville Airport, Jasper
13 Valley Head
15 Scrougeout, Hytop, Scottsboro Airport
17 Millport, [...]

Seems to be some doubt from readers that there could be ice skating on the Black Warrior during the January, 1940 cold wave and during the (Mother) (Father) (Grandfather) of all cold waves in February, 1899. First this link: (Thanks to Jason for finding this)
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~alwalker/Picturesinhistory.htm
The average low for all 31 days of January, 1940 was [...]

Another very cold morning across the great state of Alabama, home of Mt. Cheaha, Little River Canyon and Havana Junction. Here we go with another list of lows and thanks to Jason for assisting with the 33/40 Skywatcher reports:
11 Oneonta, Jasper, Broomtown
13 Scrougeout
14 Moody, Decatur, Gaylesville
15 Dearmanville
16 Roebuck, Camp Comfort (north of Fayette) Muscle Shoals, [...]

More on the historical perspective of this cold wave from the NWS in Huntsville…
NOUS44 KHUN 111905 CCA
PNSHUN
ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-121900-
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT…CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1259 PM CST MON JAN 11 2010
…COLDEST FIRST TEN DAYS OF JANUARY ON RECORD…
A PATTERN THAT BROUGHT REPEATED INTRUSIONS OF ARCTIC AIR INTO
MUCH OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES AND THE SOUTHEAST SINCE THE
START [...]

Thanks to Terry in Bessemer for giving our little friend a home… this is the dog that was stuck on a railroad track over the weekend… now with a nice home!

Here we go with a long list of bitter cold low temperatures, not only in Alabama, but in other places of interest. We will probably update this one more time by 11:00 a.m. to include a lot of the North Alabama lows that are not available yet from official stations.
ALABAMA (Final update at 10:50 a.m. [...]