FRESH INFORMATION--UPDATED 9:25 PM

Some fresh notes updated at 9:25 PM

.....Jon Pace, News Director for WTDR-FM, Anniston/Oxford, reports big wet snowflakes along the Talladega-Clay County line in East Central Alabama at 8:50 PM. He was driving through the area and reported by cell phone. The big wet flakes continued for about 10 miles into Clay County toward Ashland. There were no signs that the snow was sticking even to the grassy areas at the time.

.....The 9 PM temperarture atop Mt. Cheaha was still 32--unchanged during the last hour so I feel sure there are some big wet flakes on Alabama's highest point also.

.....In NE Alabama it has dropped to 33 degrees in Mentone at an elevation of 1765 feet. Mentone, of course, is on Lookout Mountain in Dekalb County near Desoto State Park.

.....Overall, the precipitation is diminishing and becoming more patchy.

.....Just took my little dog on a half-mile walk and here in Trussville it is a mix of a cold light rain and drizzle. Used my flashlight beam to hunt for snowflakes. There were none. The rain has been steady for several hours and the rain total here so far is 0.19 of an inch.

.....Snow rumors are rampant. At church tonight, a record number of people asked me if it was going to snow. I almost began answering "no" like the guy in the Capitol One commercial.
Posted by  
on March 9, 2005, 10:15 pm
Oh well, we have had a couple of opportunites this year for snow. Guess it wasn't meant to be. But I still wonder why it seems that there has been a change in our winter weather. I remember when I was a kid (and I'm only 28) we had snow at least once a winter, sometimes two or three good snows. What has happened in the last ten years???

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Posted by Greg  
on March 9, 2005, 10:20 pm
Posted by   www
on March 9, 2005, 10:49 pm
Yeah it snowed more when I was younger.....usually one good event (1"+) a year there for about a 10 year stretch. Maybe we used up all our snow for a while in the blizzard, haha!!! Anyway I was on the way home from work tonight in Southside on Red Mountain to 280 and when it rained it's hardest it was 75% rain and 25% chunks of slush. Better than nothing!!!

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Posted by  
on March 9, 2005, 11:40 pm
Just a light snow shower for about an hour here. No accumulation at all and it was dark so I didn't even get to watch it (without a flashlight). :(

I just turned 24 and I remember more snow also it seems. Oh well maybe next year....

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Posted by   www
on March 10, 2005, 5:57 am
I had large wet flakes mixing with light rain from about 9pm to 9:45pm, followed by flurries. It never got below 36.7 here.

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