The NWS in Birmingham has issued a Hard Freeze Warning for all of Central Alabama. The NWS Mobile has a similar product all the way to the Gulf Coast. This graphic shows the warnings issued by BMX and adjacent offices and the minimum temperatures expected tonight. Temperatures are expected to drop to near 10F in […]
LATE NOTE 1131 Highway 280 East is completely blocked at Lakeshore Parkway. 65 SB is completely blocked at Alford Avenue. Northbound traffic is crawling. ORIGINAL POST Sun is doing its job this morning, melting the ice on area roads, but many are still icy or slushy. Hills and shady areas are still a huge problem. […]
Roads are a mess across much of Central Alabama this morning. Please stay off the roads until at least noon. The Birmingham Shuttlesworth International Airport is open but many flights have been canceled or delayed. Here is a list from their website:
Hub Harvey from Shelby County EMA is begging people to stay off 280 between Chelsea and the Cahaba River. There should be no travel in Shelby County north of Calera to Chelsea to Columbiana. ORIGINAL POST This is the scene at I-65 at Montgomery Highway in Vestavia where there are multiple trucks wrecked and jack-knifed. […]
LIVE BLOG UPDATES 809 AM… Several jackknifed tractor trailer trucks on I-459 at Liberty Park. Wreckers dispatched. … I-20 is shut down at Bass Pro Shops in Leeds … There are multiple accidents on I-20 from Leeds through Moody, Pell City, Riverside and Lincoln … I-65 is completely blocked by a jack-knifed tractor trailer at […]
The precipitation is over tonight, but the roads are in terrible shape across much of the area. Most oft he wrecks have been cleared, but the roads are, especially the bridges, are impassable across the area. Do not travel tonight or in the morning anywhere in Central Alabama. Temperatures are crashing across the area. It […]
The warm nose that was evident all day on the upper air sounding from the NWS at the Shelby County Airport was very stubborn and never relented. Here is the 6 p.m. Skew-T diagram that interprets the data. Hence snow falling from aloft melted at about 2.5 miles above the earth and then refroze in […]
A winter storm warning and winter weather advisory continues tonight for all of the counties across Central Alabama. In fact, warnings and advisories cover all of the state except for the far North and coastal Mobile and Baldwin counties. A plethora of winter alerts cover the areas from Louisiana to the Mid-Atlantic. A blizzard warning […]
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 […]
The warm air in the atmosphere at 5,000 feet above the surface has started eroding away quickly, and snow is now falling for most north of the I-20 corridor from Leeds to Springville to Oneonta and back to the west of that. A wintry mix is falling over the eastern counties from Gadsden to Lincoln […]
Do not drive in the areas being impacted by the winter storm tonight. There are multiple crashes in Birmingham and Tuscaloosa. As our wintry precipitation works its way across Central Alabama tonight, here are some reports: …A nice dusting of snow tonight across West Central Alabama’s Pickens and Tuscaloosa Counties. …Sleet with some snow in […]
Heavy sleet is now making its way into Jefferson County and into the Birmingham Metropolitan Area. Travel conditions could start to deteriorate quickly as it starts. We are now looking at a possible icing conditions throughout the event, as some ice accumulations will be possible throughout the area, with the best odds of higher accumulation […]
The Pickens and Randolph County Emergency Management Agencies and Law Enforcement Officials across the counties are requesting that residents remain off the roadways across these counties through the overnight hours. All flights in and out of Montgomery Airport have been cancelled throughout the night. No word on when flights will resume at this time. The […]
More moisture is moving into Central Alabama from southern Mississippi, and this is where our big show will be coming from. Latest projected soundings for the area has that nose of above freezing air that has been hovering around 5,000 feet above the surface eroding away. When that happens, any precipitation that falls will be […]
We are watching an upstream area of precipitation that is increasing over Louisiana and Mississippi that presents a significant winter storm threat for Alabama tonight. Here is the regional radar with temperatures: Deteriorating road conditions are being reported in the Jackson MS area as a mass of moderate to occasionally heavy freezing rain and sleet […]
Here is additional information from the Storm Prediction Center regarding the threat of sleet and freezing rain across Central Alabama. Mesoscale Discussion 0021 NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 0209 PM CST Fri Jan 06 2017 Areas affected…Mixed precipitation – freezing rain and sleet Concerning…Winter mixed precipitation Valid 062009Z – 070215Z SUMMARY…Freezing rain and sleet […]
Our high-resolution HRRR model depicts a nice band of snow setting up in the I-20 Corridor tonight. Here is an animation of the model’s predicted precipitation type over the next 12 hours: And here is the accumulated snowfall estimate after that: I think a 50 or so mile wide stripe of North Central Alabama will […]
Just within the last hour, sleet and freezing rain has started falling in many locations in the western 2/3rds of the area, including Center Point, Pinson, Vestavia Hills, Deatsville, Altoona, Pell City, Alabaster… just to name a few. A sleet/freezing rain mix is now moving into eastern parts of the area, starting to affect cities […]
