Snow is limited to the northeastern quarter of Alabama at this hour, but it has been a historic storm for North Alabama. A 1004 mb surface low moving across the northern Gulf of Mexico was the culprit. The bullseye was generally along the US-278 corridor south of the Tennessee River in North Alabama. A foot […]
THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS TRANSMITTED AT THE REQUEST OF THE ALABAMA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY CLANTON ALABAMA. THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS TRANSMITTED AT THE REQUEST OF THE ALABAMA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY CLANTON ALABAMA AND INDIVIDUAL COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE IMPACTED BY WINTER WEATHER…WINSTON…JEFFERSON…PICKENS. NUMEROUS ROADWAYS…INCLUDING SOME MAJOR HIGHWAYS…ARE HAZARDOUS DUE TO SNOW […]
Well after a bit of a delay, we have finally seen the rain transition to all snow in Jefferson County. Social media is a buzz with very heavy, wet snow falling throughout the Birmingham Metro. Pictures are flowing in of snow covering the ground in many areas and sticking to most surfaces. The rain/snow line […]
Reports are starting to flow in on social media of snowflakes in Homewood, Hoover and Vestavia. Here is the radar with the correlation coefficient product showing the snowing… You can see the areas where it is snowing behind the transition line. FREEZING RAIN WEIGHTING TREES There are increasing reports of freezing rain weighting down trees […]
The NWS reports that there is 10″ of snow in Guin in Marion County. That is the first double digit snow report. LATE REPORT Phil Campbell has checked in with 10 inches snow as well. TUSCALOOSA It sounded like a football game in Bryant Denny when the snow started on the University of Alabama campus. […]
The low pressure system in the Gulf of Mexico (1004 mb) is pushing a warm front into the Florida Panhandle. The SPC has issued a Tornado Watch for the Florida Big Bend area and extreme southern Georgia, including Panama City, Tallahassee and Valdosta. The tornado watch is shown in purple on the graphic. Sorta reminiscent […]
A historic snow storm continues to impact North Alabama late this afternoon with impacts being felt as far south as Tuscaloosa, Birmingham and Anniston. Snow will accumulate as far south as a line from Eutaw to Centreville to Calera to Sylacauga to Roanoke. Here is the NWS Birmingham’s updated snowfall forecast: Snow is now falling […]
Yes. The rain/snow line is inching south and eastward late this afternoon. It is now snowing across the northern two thirds of Pickens County, in places like Carrollton, Gordo and Reform. Lamar County is all snow. There is snow across the northwestern half of Fayette County, with sleet/snow over southeastern parts. Around Tuscaloosa, the snow […]
@bellahuyn10 in Gardendale sent this photo of a disappointed snowfan. But take heart, cooling aloft will change precipitation to snow later this evening as the surface low moves east for areas along and north of I-20 that have been bereft of snow so far. We are seeing that, clearly, the rain-snow line is trending south. […]
The NWS in Birmingham just tweeted an image of Google Maps showing slow traffic in areas where the snow has accumulated. I grabbed the same image and drew a line showing the rough approximation of the rain/snow line.
The blue icons show snow depth storm reports from the National Weather Service. COUNTY BY COUNTY ST CLAIR Numerous wrecks on I-59 between Argo and Springville WALKER 4 inches of snow 7 and 10 miles north of Jasper Many wrecks in Jasper CULLMAN 3.5 inches of snow in Hanceville BLOUNT 1.8 inches at Oneonta ETOWAH […]
URGENT – IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED CIVIL EMERGENCY MESSAGE ALABAMA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY CLANTON ALABAMA RELAYED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 231 PM CST WED FEB 25 2015 THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS TRANSMITTED AT THE REQUEST OF THE ALABAMA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY CLANTON ALABAMA AND INDIVIDUAL COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE IMPACTED […]
The snow line is working its way south and east at this hour and is into western and northern Jefferson County. You will notice a change to a slushy rain/snow mix then to all snow. It will not take long for the changeover to occur, probably over the next hour. It is now time to […]
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