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Snow and Sleet Beginning to Taper Off; Roads Very Dangerous Across Much of Area

| January 6, 2017 @ 8:38 pm

Our precipitation shield has changed to all dry snow and sleet tonight. The radar shows reflectivity on the left and precipitation type on the right. The light blue is dry snow and the peach color is sleet.

Temperatures are falling as the colder air finally begins to work easy. It is down to 25F at Birmingham and 27F at Tuscaloosa and Gadsden. It is down to 20F at Cullman.

Barbour, Bullock, Pike and Russell Counties have been added to the winter weather advisory due to light accumulations.

A winter storm warning continues for several counties across Central Alabama and a winter weather advisory is in effect for a few counties on both side of the warning.

Do not travel tonight or tomorrow morning across the warning and advisory area.

Roads are sleet and snowcovered across a wide area tonight. Here are a few reports:

…All roads in the Birmingham and Tuscaloosa areas are icy.
…I-65 north of Clanton is dangerous all the way to Warrior.
…All Chilton County roads are impassable.
…I-59 is dangerous all the way from Birmingham to the Mississippi border.
…I-20 is dangerous all way from Birmingham to Villa Rica GA.
…EB I-20 has two of three lanes blocked at MM 182 by injury accident.
…I-59 is a mess all the way to Steele, just south of Gadsden.
…I-22 is dangerous from I-65 to Graysville

All roads in Vestavia are closed. In fact near every road in the warning and advisory area is impassable or at least extremely dangerous. There are numerous accidents across the entire area.

The snow and sleet is gradually tapering and will end in the next couple of hours for areas west of I-65 and north of US-80. It will gradually end over the next few hours in areas east of I-65.

A FEW LATE REPORTS
…8/10ths of an inch of snow near Lake Cyrus in NE Jefferson County.
…1/2 inch of sleet at Coker in Tuscaloosa County.
…1/2 inch of sleet at Rock Creek in Jefferson County.
…1/2 inch of sleet at Jacksonville in Calhoun County.
…1/2 inch of snow at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover.
…1 1/2 inch of snow in Northport in Tuscaloosa County.
…8/10ths of an inch of sleet at Weaver in Calhoun County.

Roads will continue to be dangerous through the night, especially with temperatures falling into the teens to near 20F across the northern half of Central Alabama and lower and middle 20s into South Central Alabama.

Category: Winter Weather

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