Composit Notes + Spot Reports

Wanted to do this composite update from places of interest. Will try to avoid posting unimportant and silly stuff today to keep you from having to scroll through too much trivia. Just the facts. Lots of blog traffic today.

ALABAMA
Band of heavy rain has been moving north all night. At 8:30, that band of rain extended all the way across North Alabama from border to borer. Heaviest was generally along and north of a line from Marion County to North Jefferson County to near Wedowee northward. The heavy rain extends all the way into NE Alabama. I few new amounts last 24 hours most of it overnight. The entire state is soaked.
0.92 Birmingham Airport
1.05 Anniston
1.94 Montgomery
2.20 Selma
1.75 Vernon (mostly since midnight)
0.86 SW Lamar County
1.34 Noccalula Falls
2.02 Hayden

8 AM CST SPOT REPORTS
Tupelo…heavy rain, wind NE, gusts 26
Columbus, Miss.,…41 light rain, gusts 28
Jackson…heavy sleet, 36 degrees
Hattiesburg…34, snow
McComb, Miss.,…33, heavy snow
New Orleans International Airport…34 with visibility only 1/2 mile in snow
Slidell, La.,…34, snow
Baton Rouge 34, snow, visibility one mile
Houston NWS Office at Alvin…1.5 inches of snow now on the ground
Conroe, Tex.,…1.2 inches still on ground
Galveston Island…yes, even they got some snow.

SOUTH LOUISIANA
NWS coop observer reports 3 to 4 inches of snow on ground at Brusey, La., near Baton Rouge as of 6:30 this morning. Louisiana State Police report numerous accidents in the Baton Rouge area because of snow covered roads and streets. Parts of the interstates are white.

HATTIESBURG
4 inches of snow on the ground in the Oak Grove community on the west side of Hattiesburg.

REPORT FROM OPELIKA NEAR AUBURN IN SE ALABAMA
6:57 AM…widespread trees and power lines down
More later. Refer to earlier posts for what is expected in Alabama.

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