Quick Early Morning Update--4:45 am Report

This is a quick update for early-risers. James Spann will be along with a complete discussion around 6 am.

A line of showers marks the leading edge of the colder air now moving into Alabama. The cold front is very near Birmingham and Tuscaloosa where it was still warm 60 at 4 am. The front has already passed Cullman where it was 48.

Little or no lightning with that line of showers.

Temperatures freezing in West Tennessee and 23 at Fayetteville, Ark.

A Winter Storm Watch posted for parts of North Mississippi and West Tennessee. In Nashville, 1 to 2 inches of snow expected after midnight tonight and possibly an additional inch during the day Saturday.

A few other notes
-25 in Grand Forks, North Dakota where the wind chill is -50
-52 wind chill in Devils Lake, North Dakota
-30 or colder at a number of locations in South Central Canada
20 at Chicago, wind gusts to 25, wind chill +5

We will most certainly hear of temperatures lower than -30 in Northern Minnesota later this morning.