Well, so far so good here - it has basically all been sleet. I judge freezing rain by the nearby bamboo, and based on the lean, there hasn't been much in the way of weighty freezing rain, it's all been sleet that has bounced around and made everything white. Having watched the radar all day, I'd like to personally thank the fine people of Cullman County for taking this one on the chin. It's already down to 24 here in West Blount. I hope we can get a dusting of snow on top of this. Some bands to the west showing up on Columbus radar are giving me some hope. But I expect sleet and then brutal cold is what we get out of this one where I'm at.
Pleased to see so few power outages on the board as well. Unless something else happens, definitely not a power crippling ice storm north of Birmingham. Slippery mess for sure, but that we can deal with.
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