Low Temperature + Snow Reports

LATE MORNING UPDATE
The lowest official temperature in Alabama this morning was 17 at Valley Head in Dekalb County...in some places this was the coldest morning since January. Here is a roundup:

17 in Valley Head
19 in Fort Payne, Gadsden and Black Creek (Heavy frost in Black Creek) and Gaylesville
20 in Pinson and Talladega
21 at Cullman Airport, Florence (Central Heights) and Madison, Wedowee and Russellville
22 in Leeds, Moulton and Hamilton and Jasper
23 in Decatur, Huntsville, Meridianville, Anniston, Mentone and Oxford
24 at Muscle Shoals, Birmingham, Union Grove, Collinsville, Smoke Rise, Clanton and Alexander City
25 atop Mt. Cheaha and at Tuscaloosa, Troy, Alabaster, Inverness
26 in Center Point, Montgomery and Shelby County Airport
27 in Auburn and Taylorville (just south of Tuscaloosa)and Livingston
28 in Evergreen
31 in Selma
34 in Mobile
.....the low of 24 at Smoke Rise, in the SW corner of Blount County, was the coldest since January...a "huge frost" with a low of 21 in the Central Heights section of Florence.

SNOW INFORMATION
.....According to the Mountain City Weather Center in Mountain City, Tenn., schools are still closed in Johnson County today because of snow. There was 4 to 8 inches of snow across the area, however, in the "prime upslope" areas, a foot of snow fell. High winds caused drifts to reach 4.5 feet! This area is in the NE corner of Tennessee.

.....Snow showers in Middle Tennessee produced as much as two inches of snow yesterday. At Nashville Airport there was only a fraction of an inch but some roads were snow covered at times. In most counties around Nashville, the amounts were 1 to 1.5 inches especially east of the city.

.....25-car pileup on I-75 north in Chattanooga area yesterday due to snow

EAST TENNESSE/WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS
1 inches at Gatlinburg (Park headquaters)
8 inches at Cosby, Tenn.
12 inches on Newfound Gap
16 inches atop Mt. Leconte with a low this morning of 4 below zero
20 inches on Mt. Mitchell, N. C., with a low of +3
13 inches at Beech Mountain, N. C.