Snowfall Continues To Increase Across Central Alabama

Colder air continues to move into the area and beginning to translate down to the surface, allowing for more of the rainfall to change over to snow. Reports are coming in from the NWS Birmingham office that Pickens and Walker counties have completely changed over to snow.

The line of rain will continue to make a changeover to snow as it continues to push eastward across the area and it will start to pivot into a more north to south orientation in a few hours. When that happens, much of the line should be all snow at that point.

Temperatures are in the lower 30s to the mid-40s in the northern parts of Central Alabama along and north of the I-20 corridor, while temperatures are in the lower 40s to the upper 40s south of that at 4:25 am.

Locations in the Winter Storm Warning still have the potential for the snow to overcome the warmer soil temperatures and allow for accumulations up to 2-3 inches, while the Winter Weather Advisory locations could potentially still receive 1 inch or less. There still could be some surprise amounts, but there could be some disappointing amounts as well.

The good news is that afternoon temperatures look to be a few degrees warmer topping out in the mid-30s to the mid-40s across Central Alabama, and tag-teamed with the winds, we could see a higher rate of evaporation of any snow and moisture that will be on the roadways after the system moves through. While some travel issues could still occur during the late night and overnight hours tonight, it should not be as bad as first thought due to the higher afternoon temperatures and wind. Overnight lows will still be “nasty” cold in the lower to mid-20s across the area from north to south.

We’ll continue to have updates throughout the morning. Check back often.

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