More About the Winter Storm Watch

February 17, 2006, 7:22 am
Posted by J.B. Elliott in Winter Weather
Rating: 5/5   Votes : 2
At 7 o'clock this morning, the National Weather Service, Birmingham, issued a Winter Storm Watch for the following North Central Alabama Counties. It is in effect from Saturday through Saturday evening.

Marion, Lamar, Fayette, Winston, Walker, Blount, Etowah, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne and St. Clair.

This is due to a threat of freezing rain.

The NWS says the main threat will be north of a line from Sulligent to Jasper, Locust Fork, Anniston and Heflin.

At this time the NWS expects any ice accumulation to remain uner 1/4 inch.

The NWS, Huntsville also as the rest of North Alabama under a Winter Storm Watch which means that about the north 1/3 of Alabama is under the watch.
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Posted by  
on February 17, 2006, 8:32 am
Coppertop,
As a regular Scouter knows, rain is called liquid or Scout sunshine. Our boys had a camporee for Webelos and Boy Scouts only in January at Tannehill with wet, cold weather. They managed to light their fires with flint and steel and have a good time. Our troop camped last weekend at Oak Mountain during the snow. Yes, this Mother was frantic with worry but son had a great time, developed confidence and saw snow. We did not have snow at our house.

Folks, the verification code is impossible to see the last letter or number. Any suggestions for those of us who have difficulty seeing? I had to go to another place on the blog to try again.

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Posted by  
on February 17, 2006, 12:23 pm
I had great difficulty with the code yesterday as well... THE "O"s VS THE "0"s... mabey my monitor is too close to me..Sandy

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Posted by  
on February 17, 2006, 12:25 pm
I have the same problem Sandy and Kim. I hate the zero's and the O's, I get the backwards everytime.

Perhaps if the V-Code were a wee bit bigger.....

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Posted by  
on February 17, 2006, 8:40 am
I thought this would be cool last week when Kenny Evens posted his conditions on this blog it was cool. So what I plan to do is when I get home from work today starting around 6 I will put my conditions from Alabaster on here. I will do this on the hour untill around midnight. And Kim I know what you mean about the code I have a hard time to I don't know what they can do about it.

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Posted by   www
on February 17, 2006, 9:41 am
Wouldn't it be better if you posted your hourly conditions on your own blog, rather than cluttering this one? ;)

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Posted by  
on February 17, 2006, 10:32 am
I like that idea Vic!! He could post the address to his blog if anyone wants to see it. Thing is, if everybody posted their observations on the hour on this blog, can you imagine how hard it would be to read the comments?

I really do not think Alabaster will see anything much anyway except a cold rain ;)


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Posted by  
on February 17, 2006, 8:41 am
I figure we will get the ice. We all wanted snow, and didn't get it. Don't really want the ice, so that is what we will get. I do have to admit, that an ice storm is a beautiful thing to look at. I just hope that the power stays on here. We lost power with Katrina and were in the dark for over a week. At least we do have other heating sources. God Bless all!

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Posted by  
on February 17, 2006, 9:31 am
About 7 years ago we were iced in here in North Alabama (Haleyville) for about a week and our 2 children were stranded at their maw maw & paw paws and now theirs 3. I hope for more snoe than ice so we can build a snowman with our 6 year old daughter... Cuold this storm be worse than expected and cause another baby boom for North Alabama?

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Posted by  
on February 17, 2006, 9:46 am
Much colder this morning. I was out an about at 6:15 am and now it is colder than it was at 6:30 and it's now 9:30am. James is there a chance that all rain tonight will be freezing rain??? Sure feels like mid 30's right now.


Cary

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Posted by  
on February 17, 2006, 9:47 am
I've been stuck at 50 for the past two hours.

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Posted by  
on February 17, 2006, 9:54 am
Hey Vic the only reason I plan to do this is because it might be usefull and if you would go back and look at James post he made it will say he does not mind anyone doing this.

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Posted by  
on February 17, 2006, 10:29 am
I'm having serious doubts that anywhere outside of extreme North Alabama will get any ice. Won't this persistant cloud cover keep the temperatures from dropping very far?

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Posted by  
on February 17, 2006, 10:49 am
Julie, I would tend to agree. I'm still holding at 50.

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Posted by  
on February 17, 2006, 11:27 am
Oh, the temps will drop Julie. That's no problem. The whole night-time/clear sky cooling is not an issue. The temps are ALREADY cold enough..they just have to move south. HOWEVER, I totally agree that we won't get ice. It's just SO hard where we are in the country to get temps 32 or below and enough moisture to precipitate. And in a situation like this there is a HUGE DIFFERENCE between 32 and 33 deg.

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Posted by  
on February 17, 2006, 11:56 am
Hey Stephanie If I had my own website I would post conditions on it !) But since I don't have a website than I see no proplem in doing this. Like I have said before if James or anybody else saw fit to take anything me or anyone else put on here he would take it off. I still think it's a cool idea so let James, JB, Jason, or John be the ones to run this blog. And yes I agree if everyone put there conditions on here it would be hard for us to read the comments. But this is not done all the time so I see nothing wrong with it.

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