Saturday Morning Cold Weather Notes

December 10, 2005, 10:32 am
Posted by J.B. Elliott in Winter Weather
Rating: 5/5   Votes : 1
Another cold morning across Alabama, and possibly the coldest so far this season at one Northwest Alabama location. Here is a roundup. These lows are as of 6 am. It is possible that the ole thermometer dropped another degree after 6 am at some stations:

14 at Hamilton
18 at Jasper, Gaylesville, Muscle Shoals, Desoto State Park
19 at Addison, Ellisville, Oak Grove, Pinson, Fort Payne, Meridianville
20 at Talladega, Wedowee, Heflin, Decatur, Huntsville
21 in Alabaster, Cullman, Dearmanville
22 in Centreville, Ashville, Wadley, Anniston, Tuscaloosa
23 at Livingston, Alexander City, Childersburg, Birmingham Airport
24 at Clanton, Montgomery and Horseshoe Bend
25 at Shelby County Airport (NWS Forecast Office)26 in Helena
27 in Auburn
28 in Selma and Troy
30 in Evergreen
31 in Mobile

I think, but can't say for sure, that the 14 low in Hamilton this morning is the lowest reported so far this season in the state. It is an official NWS coop observer low.

The Oak Grove listed is in West Jefferson County. There is another Oak Grove in Northeast Alabama.

A FEW NATIONAL NOTES
85 Marathon, Fla., was Friday's warmest
31 below at Doyleville, Colo., the national low
That is 31 degrees colder than this morning's Alaska low of zero at Point Lay
8.6 inches of snow at Boston Logan Airport, their 7th greatest December calendar day snow
Boston weather records date back to 1872
Blizzard conditions with hurricane force winds when the intense low passed just east of Cape Cod yesterday.
Accompaned by two hours of thunder and lightning along and east of the I-95 Corridor
17 inches of snow at Keene and Bennington, N.H.
16 inches at Newbury Port, Mass.
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Posted by Margie Richardson - Rainbow City  
on December 10, 2005, 11:59 am
18 in the flatwoods of Rainbow City :).........brrrrrrrr

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Posted by  
on December 10, 2005, 1:49 pm
It was the coldest morning so far this winter in much of northern Georgia as well......bottomed out at 25.1 F here in Douglasville, GA.

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Posted by  
on December 10, 2005, 1:58 pm
Hey Perry what do you think the rest of winter will be like???cold or warm???

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Posted by  
on December 10, 2005, 2:57 pm
Sorry my email didn't get through to you Michael....there's something wrong with it; Yahoo is checking it out (I sent sis several emails last week that she never recieved).

I'm expecting an overall milder winter than normal....with December being the coldest month; January and February both milder and wetter than normal. If we don't get snow before New Years arrives, IMO we'll either see it in March or not at all.
I'm honestly not very impressed with prospects for a major winter storm this year; just my gut feeling
:(

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Posted by  
on December 10, 2005, 3:42 pm
Prospects of a winter storm??? Not impressed??? This has been the best chance we have had in years for a major storm. What is your opinion based on that shows unimpressive "prospects" for a winter storm. Considering models at the most go out to 384 hours, and not reliable AT ALL past 5 days, Im not sure you can base opinions on "prospects" (im guessing you mean models) for a whole winter season. Your opinion can only be based on your gut, not models or "prospects" for a whole season. Although I don't agree alot of times with how James Spann and Co. hype up winter weather threats, NOBODY can argue when he says "all the players are on the field."

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Posted by Josh  
on December 10, 2005, 9:41 pm
January is always the coldest month and the month with the most chance of wintery precipitation based on climatology here in Alabama.
I hope it snows this winter. :)
No snow chance for at least the next 5 days.
Tiny chance For mountains of NE Alabama but that chance is very small.

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