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Winter threat: 1/9-12/ 25

Our 3 1/2 inches here in west Blount has compacted down to 3 with the rain and a good bit of melt is ongoing. No real sign of the rain freezing, which is good. 34 with light rain, melting snow.
 
NWS Huntsville has updated the winter storm warning for North Alabama. Notice that says AN ADDITONAL.


URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Huntsville AL
846 AM CST Fri Jan 10 2025
ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-110015-
/O.CON.KHUN.WS.W.0001.000000T0000Z-250111T1200Z/
Lauderdale-Colbert-Franklin AL-Lawrence-Limestone-Madison-Morgan-
Marshall-Jackson-DeKalb-Cullman-Moore-Lincoln-Franklin TN-
Including the cities of Sheffield, Russellville, Town Creek,
Albertville, Lynchburg, Decherd, Muscle Shoals, Scottsboro,
Cullman, Rainsville, Huntsville, Guntersville, Arab, Florence,
Winchester, Red Bay, Decatur, Cowan, Tuscumbia, Boaz, Estill
Springs, Sewanee, Fort Payne, Fayetteville, Athens, and Moulton
846 AM CST Fri Jan 10 2025
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST SATURDAY
NORTHERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* WHAT...Heavy mixed precipitation Northern Alabama and Southern
Middle Tennessee. Additional snow and sleet accumulations up to 4
inches and ice accumulations around one tenth of an inch.
* WHERE...All of northern Alabama and southern middle Tennessee.
* WHEN...Until 6 AM CST Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Roads, and especially bridges and overpasses, have
become slick and extremely hazardous. Travel is strongly
discouraged! The strong winds and weight of snow on tree limbs may
down power lines and could cause sporadic power outages.
 
Warm nose winning handily now. Now to hope for some wrap around snow from the upper level dynamics. Not totally implausible, but unlikely to make it down into central Alabama I'm afraid.
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Blountwolf said:
Warm nose winning handily now. Now to hope for some wrap around snow from the upper level dynamics. Not totally implausible, but unlikely to make it down into central Alabama I'm afraid.
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What your thoughts on North MS (particularly NE MS) getting good wrap around?
 
JPWX said:
What your thoughts on North MS (particularly NE MS) getting good wrap around?
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Looks pretty likely once that warm nose heads east and your winds swing around to from the north. Watch your wind direction to know when it passes. Amounts from wrap around aren't usually all that dramatic. I've hoped for something meaningful out of them many times and been disappointed. But if a band sets up in the right pace, it can add up pretty quick.

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Blountwolf said:
Looks pretty likely once that warm nose heads east and your winds swing around to from the north. Watch your wind direction to know when it passes. Amounts from wrap around aren't usually all that dramatic. I've hoped for something meaningful out of them many times and been disappointed. But if a band sets up in the right pace, it can add up pretty quick.

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What's your source for that image? That looks like a really useful tool!
 
MattW said:
What's your source for that image? That looks like a really useful tool!
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LOL - Very old school. WeatherScope from Oklahoma Mesonet. Not even sure you can download it any more. So old its requirements are 512MB of RAM and Windows98. (Runs fine on Win11).

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Chris3024 said:
https://sdg.mesonet.org/builds/final/win/WeatherScope/

Had to search for it yesterday
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Oh awesome, I'm glad it's still available. I find it really useful. You just load up the different radars and observations you want to see, and then you can save the whole setup as a script for next time. I have a "SouthernWinterWeather.wxscript" script with the various settings I've found I liked over the years for watching these events.
 
Blountwolf said:
Oh awesome, I'm glad it's still available. I find it really useful. You just load up the different radars and observations you want to see, and then you can save the whole setup as a script for next time. I have a "SouthernWinterWeather.wxscript" script with the various settings I've found I liked over the years for watching these events.
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I had it on my old pc and forgot about it until you mentioned it the other day
 
Blountwolf said:
LOL - Very old school. WeatherScope from Oklahoma Mesonet. Not even sure you can download it any more. So old its requirements are 512MB of RAM and Windows98. (Runs fine on Win11).

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Wow, this is great! This is definitely another tool I'm adding to my toolbox, thank you so much! And thank you @Chris3024 for providing the download link!
 
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