Saturday through Monday are First Warning Impact Days due to a prolonged stretch of dangerously cold temperatures weather, hard freezes and some light snow.
SATURDAY: Dangerously cold. Temperatures plunge into the 10s with a northwest wind gusting as high as 40 miles per hour. That wind will be dropping the wind chill near and below zero around sunrise. Most of North and Central Alabama will stay below freezing all day, and some snow showers could bring a dusting to one inch of snowfall in scattered spots through Saturday afternoon, with the best potential in Northeast Alabama.
SUNDAY: A frigid morning in the single digits and lower 10s. High temperatures rise to the mid-30s with some sunshine in the afternoon.
MONDAY: Another hard freeze in the morning, with highs in the 40s.
TUESDAY: Not as cold in the morning with lows in the 30s. Increasing clouds, milder. Highs in the upper 50s to lower 60s. Some rain is possible mainly after sunset.
WEDNESDAY: Some scattered showers are possible. Morning lows in the upper 30s before afternoon highs in the low 50s.
THURSDAY: Morning lows in the 30s before and afternoon in the 40s. More clouds than sun during the day.
FRIDAY: Morning lows in the 20s afternoon highs in the low 50s with lots of sunshine.Saturday will be so cold that we have cold weather alerts covering all of central and north Alabama. A few snow showers are also possible late Friday night through Saturday afternoon.
We do now have a winter weather advisory that covers Cherokee, Calhoun, Cleburne, Clay, and Etowah and Randolph counties from midnight through 12am Saturday.These counties are where we are most likely to see a few snow showers Saturday morning. Snow could accumulate up to one inch in these counties.The bigger story for more of our area will be the cold.
There are extreme cold warnings and wind advisories for all of central Alabama.Some communities will spend an extended period of time below the freezing mark, so it is very important you are taking your cold weather precautions.
When will it warm up again?
We look to stay cool into next week, too. Highs will hold below average in the 40s to near 50 degrees through at least Thursday
