Disappointed…

My first snow disappointment came around 1967 when the mean forecasters at the Weather Bureau in Birmingham conspired with broadcasters like Joe Rumore to get my hopes up about that white, cold foregn substance someone called snow. I awakened the next morning to blue skies and dirt…

There have many snow disappointments since then. There have been a few pleasant surprises too, like April 3, 1987 when I went to bed to the dulcid tones of a famous Weatheradio broadcaster saying that tempertaures would rise during the night. I awakened to seven inches of heavy, wet snow the next morning. There was a great January day back in 1982 when I was a student at Samford.

So we take the good with the bad, and understand that it is difficult to forecast snow in Alabama. At midmorning, there was a great concern in our forecast circle that there was going to be very little snow in Alabama. But when it is snowing to beat the band in McComb, and Hattiesburg, Mississippi and Opelousas, Louisiana, you have to think that could extend into Alabama.

But the upper low matured and then started to go downhill. The forecasts always said there would be a stripe of snow across a limited area. Calling the exact spot is difficult, if not impossible.

Lots of disappointed snow lovers tonight. But that is no excuse for profanity or negative comments on here. Keep that stuff to yourself. It pains me to see posts deleted for the wrong attitudes…

And be thankful for the beneficials rains.

8 PM UPDATE
…Jim Higgins in Northfork says there is a fatality in a wreck on a snow covered US 43 north of Hamilton earlier tonight…
…be careful overnight in the areas that have received snow…there will be slush on the roads that will make them treacherous, and as temperatures fall below freezing overnight, this will freeze. Travel is strongly discouraged across Marion, Winston and Franklin Counties.
…Full moon brightly shining in Starkville MS

ANOTHER LATE REPORT
Alabama Highway 20 in Lauderdale County is slick and hard to see. From: Central VFD and Lauderdale Sheriff.

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