Please, if at all possible, leave a little early, so you can safely make it home from work. Once the temperatures hit the freezing mark, it will not take long at all for those icing issues to start.
At 118 PM CST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over Logan, or near Fort Deposit, moving northeast at 65 mph. Pea size hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with this storm.
Expiration times have been edited to now expire at 4:00 pm this afternoon instead of 9:00 pm tonight.
Here are a few reports from trustworthy sources on roadways becoming dangerous to travel and/or becoming impassable.
As of 12:29 pm, the western parts of North/Central Alabama continue to see a mixture of sleet and freezing rain. The eastern 2/3rds of the area is seeing mainly rain.
Gov. Kay Ivey on Sunday evening declared a state of emergency for 28 western, northwestern and central Alabama counties expected to be affected by a winter storm bringing freezing rain and ice that could cause treacherous road conditions and power outages.
All road in Colbert County should be considered impassable until further notice.
As of 10:18 am, the freezing rain and sleet activity has been retreating a little westward this morning as some warm air advection is taking place and is allowing some locations west of I-65 in the northwestern parts of North/Central Alabama to rise above freezing.
A relatively narrow band of freezing rain will persist for several hours across the discussion area.
Icing continues across parts of West and North Alabama this morning as a major winter storm impacts our state.
