Are You Cold Weather Wary?

For the second morning in a row, there was a hard freeze all the way to the Alabama coast. In some areas, it was colder this morning than yesterday morning. The wind was calm toward daybreak this morning, so when we all crawled out of bed, it did not feel quite as cold. Here is a comprehensive list. We get more than one report from some communities. (Thanks to Jason Simpson for helping me assemble all these reports)

4 Broomtown* (See note below)
5 Camp Hill (NWS Coop Observer), SE Tallapoosa County
7 Grantley, Scrougout
7 Five miles from Hytop, West Jackson County
8 Sycamore
9 Dearmandville, Gaylesville, Hamilton, Muscadine
10 Lafayette
10 Jackson’s Gap, Tallapoosa County
11 Cottondale, Munford, Lincoln, South Pinson, Decatur, Bankhead National Forest, Vigo, Weiss Lake
12 Ft. Payne, Cullman Airport, Crossville, Pinson, Weaver, Southside, Ashland, Alexander City, Sylacauga, Ellisville, Wynnville, Vernon, Millport, Wilsonville, Pleasant Grove
13 Argo, Centreville, Clanton, East Saginaw, Alabaster/Navajo Pines, McCalla, Moody, Ashby
14 Muscle Shoals, Meridianville, Anniston, Roebuck, Jasper, Blue Pond, Childersburg/Talladega, Wadley, Hightland Home, Concord/Hueytown, North Fork, Clay, Rock Mill, Marion, Pelham, Cobb City (South of Glencoe)
15 Coker, Hayden, Oxford, Ingramtown, Alabaster, Noccalula Falls, Moody
16 Huntsville Airport, Birmingham Airport, Huntsville/UAH, Montgomery/Dannelley Field, Troy, Crestline (East Birmingham, Weaver, Greystone Farms, Clay/Pinson (Womack Road), NE Huntsville at the foot of Monte Sano
17 Tuscaloosa Airport, Livingston, Trussville on the ridge
18 Auburn, Shelby County Airport, Cuba, Cordova, Brewton, Jemison/Union Grove
19 Albertville, Evergreen, Jackson, Atmore
20 Florala
21 Robertsdale
23 Dothan
24 Fairhope
25 Downtown Mobile/Brookley Field and at Mobile Regional Airport
27 Gulf Shores Airport
33 Dauphin Island

NOTE: Jason Simpson and I got a big kick out of a remark that 33/40 Skywatcher, D.L. Powell in Broomtown added to his report this morning. He said, “If the ducks fly off, they will take the pond with them.” He reported that 4 degree low in Broomtown.

USA EXTREMES
85 Wednesday afternoon at Bakersfield and Riverside, California
29 below zero this morning at Watertown, New York
47 below zero at Buckland and Notak, Alaska
61 below zero wind chill at Tin City, Alaska

GREAT SMOKY MOUTAIN NATIONAL PARK
(Corrected information)
8 degree low in Gatlinburg with 1 inch of snow on the ground
5 in Cades Cove with 1 inch of snow
18 below zero atop 6,400-foot Mt. LeConte with 7 inches of snow. Their “high” yesterday was -10!

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