Temperatures are above freezing late tonight along and south of a line from Fayette to Birmingport to the Birmingham Airport to Talladega to Lincoln to Jacksonville. A batch of light to moderate rain and freezing rain is passing out of Cherokee, Calhoun and Cleburne Counties. Patches of light freezing rain continue across the Tennessee valley. […]
Light to moderate freezing rain is moving across parts of Marion, Fayette and Walker Counties at this hour. Temperatures are at or just below freezing across the area. Light accumulations of ice will continue to fall in these counties and into Cullman, Blount and northern Jefferson Counties over the next hour. Southern parts of the […]
Not telling you anything you didn’t know if you have been reading the blog, but Emergency Managers across the area have issued a Civil Emergency Message requesting people to limit travel to emergencies this evening and overnight in Northeast Alabama. They issue Civil Emergency Messages to trigger Weatheradio alarms and get the word out quickly […]
The NWS has extended the Winter Weather Advisory until 9 p.m. for Fayette, Jefferson, Lamar, Marion, Walker and Winston Counties. Temperatures have been slow to rise across these counties. It is still 32F at Jasper and 31F at the Birmingham Airport. It is 31F in Lincoln, 28F in Gadsden and 28F in Oxford. Precipitation is […]
Significant icing issues have developed north and east of Birmingham. I-65 northbound is shut down near Morris due to an overturned tanker containing formaldehyde. I am totally sure this is related to ice, but it most likely is. Old Springville Road between Chalkville and Springville is very icy, and parts of the road have been […]
The band of freezing rain and sleet moving across the northern half of Jefferson County is resulting in hazardous road conditions. Gardendale PD is shutting down I-65 north and southbound at exit 275 because of ice according to John Talbot. There is a wreck on the entrance ramp to I-65 north at Morris. Areas from […]
Concerning roads in the Birmingham metro… Temperatures remain below freezing across the Birmingham metro as of 1:00… Tuscaloosa was warmed to 33, as you can see, but most others are still in the 20s. Thankfully, the snow/sleet/graupel combination has been light and spotty so far, with most of the travel issues north of Birmingham. Here […]
It is colder than the models and forecasts expected early this afternoon across Central Alabama and that has led to concerns that icing could be a bigger problem than originally expected. The airmass over Alabama is still very dry, which is evaporating much of the precipitation, but it is also helping to keep temperatures colder […]
Temperatures remain below freezing across much of Alabama late this morning… The NWS Birmingham has extended the winter weather advisory for Central Alabama through tonight due to a slower recovery of surface temperatures. So wintry precipitation has been light and spotty across the state; but we are beginning to see an increase in activity on […]
This is an update for all of Alabama through tonight. ADVISORIES: Winter weather advisories are up for much of North, Central, and Southwest Alabama. THIS MORNING: The new winter weather advisories issued for places like Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Anniston, Pell City, Alabaster, Clanton, Livingston, Demopolis, Greensboro, and Brent. It is important to note this is a […]
As you can see from the post below, forecast changes were made, and a winter weather advisory is now in effect for places like Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Anniston, Selma, and Demopolis. This post is for Central Alabama… the forecast for North and Northeast Alabama remains unchanged (scroll down to the early morning discussion for details). TIMING: […]
We stress over and over to “expect changes” in any winter weather forecast, and we have some this morning. The NWS Birmingham has issued a winter weather advisory for parts of Central Alabama… new counties added are Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Dallas, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Jefferson, Lamar, Lowndes, Marengo, Perry, Pickens, Shelby, Sumter, Tuscaloosa, Walker, Blount, […]
Light snow/sleet/graupel is seen on dual pol radar this morning over parts of Central and West Alabama… We also note freezing rain over parts of South Mississippi; NWS offices in Jackson and Mobile have issued freezing rain advisories for some of their counties due to icing on bridges and some roads. Here is a look […]
An all new edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player on the right sidebar of the blog. You can subscribe to the Weather Xtreme video on iTunes by clicking here. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY: There isn’t been much overall change in our short-term forecast for the next 24 hours. The […]
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