A "You Pick 'em" Morning

This was one of those mornings when how cold you were depended on your location--especially regarding elevation.

This happens often when a "cold snap" is retreating from the area and moving off to the east. As the high moves east, a SE wind will set in bringing a warming trend and disturbing the temperature inversion in exposed areas.

At 6 this morning, the temperature was 23 at Gadsden Airport while Cullman Airport had 36--a difference of 13 degrees! The valleys of NE Alabama are usually the last places that the old cold air gets "scooped out" by SE winds. The Cullman Airport is actually near Vinemont in a generally elevated area.

There was a seven degree difference in the low this morning between Pinson (23) and Birmingham Airport (30) It is likely that places atop ridges in the Greater Birmingham area had lows in the mid or even upper 30s...such as atop Red Mountain, Shades Mountain, Oak Mountain and Double Oak Mountain. Just another little thing that we weather humans have to factor in when forecasting temperatures.