Additional Notes - 8:05 AM

SPOT REPORTS
7:48am - Etowah EMA reports only travel problems at higher elevation

7:40am - 30F at Branchville on Hwy 411 in St. Clair County. Heavy coating of ice on trees, cars. Still have electricity.

7:30am: Have photos from Mentone with trees and power lines weighted down with ice and down on roads.

7:25am: Carroll County, Georgia (just across border on I-20) has extensive icing on roads and on trees and power lines.

6:55am: Cleburne County EMA...Travel very hazardous, especially bridges/overpasses...a number of trees down around the county...state route 281 closed that goes toward Cheaha State Park...15 accidents during the night on Interstate 20 within Cleburn County mostly from cars sliding off the highway

Temperatures are looking better out there. Mercury now rising at many locations, edging past that freezing point.
8 AM OBSERVATIONS
Birmingham Airport...37F
Trussville...34F
Cullman...32F...mixed precipitation
Decatur and Huntsville now both 35F with light rain
Fort Payne...cloudy and 32F
Mentone...27F at 1765 feet
Collinsville...30F at 1201 feet
Mount Cheaha...28F (2407 feet)
Anniston...34F...Light Rain
Section...31F at 1368 feet elevation
Hytop...30F at 1785 feet elevation
Atlanta...28F with heavy sleet

ADDITIONAL NOTES
It's not often that you see a Winter Weather Advisory for Savannah and Charleston. But it's happening today. Freezing rain and sleet is expected through the day in southeastern Georgia and southwestern South Carolina. at 8 a.m. CST, it was...
31F in Beaufort SC...32F in Savannah GA and 31F in Charleston. 30F in Myrtle Beach.