We have sunny skies across North and Central Alabama as we are making our way into the midday hour on this first day of Spring. However, these temperatures are giving us one last shot of Old Man Winter as we are only in the upper 30s to the to the upper 40s as of 11 am.
Freeze warnings are posted for all of North and Central Alabama for tonight and early Monday morning as the coldest air of this cold snap settles over Alabama.
At 11 am, skies were mainly clear across the northern 3/4ths of the area, but partly to mostly cloudy skies can be seen over the extreme southern parts of Central Alabama.
We’ll have a mix of sun & clouds today with cool temperatures, but sunny skies will not help out the even-cooler temperatures on Sunday.
As of 12:26 pm, if you are located south of the I-59 corridor, you are most likely enjoying mainly sunny skies. But for those along and north of the I-59 corridor, you will notice that some thin cloud cover has started moving over your neck of the woods.
Very slippery sidewalks, roads and bridges are possible. The hazardous conditions could impact the morning or evening commute.
Given the recent stretch of warm weather and subsequently warm ground temperatures, bridges and other elevated and exposed surfaces will be most susceptible to glaze accumulations due to freezing rain.
Fog and freezing temperatures over North Alabama pose the potential for slippery driving and walking in areas where the supercooled fog droplets freeze on contact with exposed surfaces.
Patchy freezing fog is expected to develop across portions of north Alabama and southern middle Tennessee.
Some icy road conditions remain up in the Tennessee Valley Region this morning, but afternoon highs up in the 40s and 50s will help melt the ice.
While a few flurries may still be falling over the northern portions of the area, much of the activity has shifted southward in the form of some very light showers or sprinkles mainly south of the I-59/I-20 and I-20 corridors.
The WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY has been extended until 9 pm CST for the following counties in the Tennessee Valley region: Cullman, DeKalb, Jackson, Madison, Marshall, and Morgan.
NWS Huntsville will allow the Winter Weather Advisory to expire at 7 pm for all of their counties in the Tennessee Valley, but will issue a new one until 9 pm for the eastern portions of their area as there is some snow redevelopment as far west as the western parts of Cullman and Morgan counties.
From the Jackson County EMA, all roads in Jackson County up in Northeast Alabama have been deemed impassible by tonight’s wintry mischief.
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