HOW COLD WAS IT?

The temperature finally dropped to freezing at Birmingham Airport for the first time this season. This is not the latest "first freeze" on record but it was getting close. Here is a roundup of this morning's low temperatures in a number of regions: (UPDATED AT 1 PM PM to include additional reports, including some new low temperatures from the Southern Appalachians plus a new national low from Colorado)

ALABAMA
24 in Valley Head and Florence (Central Heights)
25 in Black Creek (NE Etowah County) and Hackneyville
26 in Pinson, Russellville and Desoto State Park
27 in Decatur, Fort Payne, Hartselle, Jasper, Talladega, Heflin, Scottsboro
and at Russell Cave National Monument
28 in Huntsville, Muscle Shoals, Meridianville, Muscle
Shoals, Cottondale, Weaver, Center Point, Vinemont
29 in Anniston, Alabaster, Smokerise, Helena, Oak Grove, Empire (another
report 28 in Helena)
30 in Anniston, Tuscaloosa, Cullman, Unniversity of Alabama/Huntsville
and Alexander City
31 at Birmingham, Shelby County Airport, Oxford, Clanton
and Union Springs

REGIONAL
17 in Mountain City, Tenn.
18 at Banner Elk, N. C.
24 at Beech Mountain, N. C.
23 at Asheville and Franklin, N. C.
21 at Spruce Pine and Mt. Mitchell, N. C.
20 atop Mt. LeConte in Great Smoky Mountain National Park

NATIONAL
-33 at Antero Reservoir, Colo.
-24 in Gunnison, Colo., over on the West Slope
-11 at Barrow Alaksa, windy, with wind chill -38
We do not get a report from traditional cold spot Fraser, Colo., till late in the day but yesterday they had -25.

ADDITIONAL NOTES FROM ABC 33/40 WEATHER WATCHERS
...from Black Creek: "huge frost with the 25 low and freezing fog in trees.
...from Hartselle: "Heavy frost with dense fog"
...from Smokerise: "29 with frost but the frost was very heavy in the lower elevations and very pretty" (His station is not in the valley)