Winter WX Southern US Winter Storm (Feb 9 - 17)

[Mr. Clark]

Except at higher elevations, I don’t think Huntsville got much ice.

I live on the Western side of Madison and I agree. We woke to frozen elevated surfaces like trees and I had a nice glazing on the deck. But we never had any ice on the surface streets or anything else on the ground. By lunchtime, everything that had been frozen had melted.

I got notification a little while ago the Redstone Arsenal is closed tomorrow, so they must be really concerned about black ice tomorrow morning.

 

[Gail]

Do we think this will shift more to the East?

 

[Equus]

Finally below freezing here but looks like the precip is long gone. Big relief here, but just a few miles west clearly things have gotten very nasty. Feel fortunate to have power tonight

Porch is already getting slippery and the bird feeders were frozen shut; had to warm the lids up. Seeing all the images from Marion and Lamar etc are pretty jaw-dropping with whole trees felled by the ice.

 

[StormStalker]

It’s a chilly 19 degrees here now and everything outside is basically a block of ice. The sleet saved us from significant freezing rain accumulations but also prohibited us from getting snow.

 

[Weatherphreak]

Got a whole lot of rain in South Huntsville but that’s about it. I’m sure it’ll be an ice skating rink tonight. It’ll be interesting to see how the snow pack in Texas influences the Thursday storm? Would love for temps to come in colder and get a nice snow dump to end the week. Bring on sunny and 60 by the weekend!

 

[MikeP]

Little flizzard here currently....

 

[ghost]

Remember to let the water trickle/drip out of your faucets if your temps are getting into the low teens or single digits tonight. Both hot and cold sides. Especially true if you've lost your power.

 

[Equus]

Aaand snow, big flakes. Light dusting already. What a way to top off a wild weather day

 

[Mike S]

Dusting here in south Huntsville but roads are fine. It is still snowing though.

 

[_melody_]

Still snowing quite a bit in Brushy Pond.

 

[Jason.Ledbetter]

Still snowing quite a bit in Brushy Pond.

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That is a beautiful picture.

 

[WesL]

Still snowing quite a bit in Brushy Pond.

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I feel like this is a painting! Beautiful!

 

[Chris3024]

Well, I had to use some warmish water to get the car door open this morning, and the runoff on the ground was slush in about 15 minutes.

 

[_melody_]

That is a beautiful picture.

I feel like this is a painting! Beautiful!

Thank you. It was so pretty. There were tons of birds everywhere, especially cardinals and they were just shimmering against the background of the white. When the thaw started a few hours later, the ice falling off of the barn was banging loudly as it hit the lower roof and it took me a minute to figure out what all that noise was. The whole building was groaning too as the wind blew on it while the ice was still there. It was kind of amazing to see how it all worked out over the past few days! Here are some pictures from the ice a couple of days earlier, which was also beautiful.

 

[WesL]

Morning everyone. We had an extra inch or so overnight. Was able to get out and take few pics before traffic picked up.

 

[David in SW Blount]

I saw that NW Arkansas had some outrageous lows yesterday morning!

 

[Weatherphreak]

I’m really hoping this one over performs and Huntsville gets a nice 2-3inches of snow instead of a bunch of ice and rain.

 

[WesL]

I saw that NW Arkansas had some outrageous lows yesterday morning!

Yeah we hit a record in Fayetteville of -20. My dog and I weren't thrilled at the concept of going out for a quick walk

 

[Blountwolf]

Second verse, same as the first for North Alabama? Dewpoints sure are low out in front of the second round. How high is the confidence on where the freezing line sets up? Will evap cooling move it south? Will WAA move it north?

 

[Blountwolf]

Blue is 32 degree line, maroon is 32 degree wet-bulb line. 32 degree dewpoint line is near the coast. Some evap cooling happening - watching temps fall as moisture arrives. Almost all the moisture is in the below freezing side of this storm. Returns look like sleet to me - if that's snow, it's dumping on north MS, and if it's raining that hard into the below freezing surface temps - poor folks.