Still Rather Frosty As We Approach the Midday Hour

HOW’S THE WEATHER? A very cool shot on the latest visible satellite image, as you can see the snow cover over the northern parts of Mississippi and Alabama, along with some clouds that continue to push to the southeast over the eastern potion of the state. A few flurries continue to fall underneath some of those clouds, but those will not add to any accumulations that have already occurred.

Even with the sunshine, temperatures still remain mighty cold, especially with the gusty winds. As of 11 am, temperatures were ranging from the lower 30s in the northwest to the lower 40s in the southeast. Troy was the warm spot at 43º. The cold spot was Haleyville at 31º. Birmingham was sitting at 35º.

FOR THE REST OF TODAY: Skies will continue to clear out and nearly everyone in Central Alabama will have cobalt blue skies before sunset. The good news is that the wind will start to die down throughout the rest of the afternoon, and the Wind Advisory for Central Alabama will expire at 6 pm. Highs will only reach the mid 30s to the lower 40s across the area. However, a Freeze Warning continues through 10 am Sunday morning, as skies will be clear tonight and overnight lows will crash down into the upper teens to the mid 20s.

MOVE THOSE CLOCKS FORWARD: That’s right, folks. It’s time to move those clocks forward by an hour when you head off to bed tonight, as we have reached Daylight Saving Time. While we will be gaining an hour of daylight on Sunday, we’ll be losing an hour of sleep… and I need all the sleep that I can get.

SUNNY & WARMER ON SUNDAY: We’re out of the freezer on Sunday as we’ll have sunny skies with highs reaching the mid to upper 50s across the area.

ON THIS DAY IN WEATHER HISTORY: Fordland, Missouri (2006) — High school senior Matt Suter survives being blown 1,307 feet by a tornado. (The exact distance is determined by NWS GPS.) The twister rips open his grandmother’s mobile home and tosses Suter into the night, launching him over a barbed wire fence and eventually depositing him on the soft grass in an open field. He suffers only a head wound from being hit by a lamp.

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