Early Riser Chill

For those of you early to rise...here is a quick check of some 5 o'clock temperatures around Alabama. We will post a final list of low temperatures later this morning. The temperature could still drop a degree or so more by around 6:30 before the sun kicks in:

25 with a heavy frost at Black Creek (NE Etowah County)
27 at a private weather station in Fort Payne
28 at Fort Payne Airport
29 at Anderson (Lauderdale County)
30 in Cullman
31 in Moulton
32 in Gadsden and Meridianville
32 also in NE Trussville (I finally own a themometer, one that I used when I was an official NWS coop observer back in the 1950s)
33 in Decatur and Anniston (low so far in Anniston 32)
34 in Tuscaloosa and Huntsville
36 at Birmingham Airport

* With a good bit of ground level moisture available after Monday night's rain, it is likely that a substantial frost is present this morning in the deeper NE Alabama valleys...places like Valley Head and Fort Payne. Black Creek reports 25 with a heavy frost.

* I estimate that the low in Brewton this morning willbe about 38. If true, that would mean a 50-degree drop in temperature since Monday afternoon when they shared the national high of 88.

James will have his complete discussion, text and video posted here shortly