Winter Weather in the deep south thread

[Brent]

NWS Peachtree City finally onboard!

.SHORT TERM /TODAY THROUGH MONDAY/...
A BROAD UPPER TROUGH OVER THE PLAINS SWINGS EASTWARD TO OVER THE
CAROLINAS BY TOMORROW MORNING. THE SURFACE LOW CURRENTLY OVER THE
NORTHERN GULF WILL RIDE EASTWARD ALONG A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT
OVER THE GULF COAST AND OFF THE CAROLINA COAST BY 12Z SUNDAY...
ALTHOUGH NAM LINGERS THE LOW OVER THE NORTHEAST GULF THROUGH THIS
EVENING. MEANWHILE AN ARTIC COLD FRONT OVER THE PLAINS WHERE
TEMPERATURES THIS MORNING ARE WELL BELOW FREEZING WILL CONTINUE
PUSHING SOUTHEAST WITH TEMPERATURES SLOWLY FALLING THROUGHOUT THE
DAY. NAM MORE AGGRESSIVE PUSHING NEAR FREEZING TEMPERATURES AS FAR
SOUTH AS A COLUMBUS TO SPARTA LINE BY 00Z. NAM ALSO HOLDING ON TO
PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE AREA WHILE GFS/NGM MOVE HEAVIER
PRECIPITATION EAST AFTER 18Z. WHILE NONE OF THE SHORT TERM MODELS
INITIALIZED THE LIGHT RAIN CURRENTLY FALLING OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA...
WESTERN EXTENT OF PRECIPITATION SHIELD IS WELL INITIALIZED. SHORT
TERM MODELS ARE SHOWING BEST QPF OVER SOUTHERN AREAS OF WATCH AREA
AND FURTHER SOUTH. THIS WOULD INDICATE THAT BEST AREA FOR SNOW
WOULD BE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ATLANTA TO ATHENS AND NORTH OF A
COLUMBUS TO MACON TO SPARTA LINE. FIRST TWO PERIODS WILL LEAN
HEAVILY TOWARD NAM SOLUTION WITH COLDER AIR AND LINGERING
PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. ALL SHORT
TERM MODEL SOLUTIONS INDICATING SOME QUESTION AS TO HOW MUCH
PRECIPITATION THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF FORECAST AREA...AND WITH
BETTER QPF FURTHER SOUTH HAVE DOUBTS THAT NORTHEAST GEORGIA
MOUNTAINS WILL MEET THE CRITERIA FOR A HEAVY SNOW WARNING. WILL GO
WITH A SNOW ADVISORY FOR AREAS NORTH OF ATLANTA TO ATHENS AND
REISSUE THE SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR A RAIN/SNOW MIX SOUTH OF
THE WARNING AREA.

.FFC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
HEAVY SNOW WARNING FROM 7 AM THIS MORNING TO 9 PM EST THIS
EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: BALDWIN...BANKS...BARROW...
BIBB...BUTTS...CLARKE...CLAYTON...COWETA...CRAWFORD...DEKALB...
FAYETTE...FORSYTH...GREENE...GWINNETT...HALL...HANCOCK...
HARRIS...HEARD...HENRY...JACKSON...JASPER...JONES...LAMAR...
MADISON...MERIWETHER...MONROE...MORGAN...MUSCOGEE...NEWTON...
NORTH FULTON...OCONEE...OGLETHORPE...PIKE...PUTNAM...ROCKDALE...
SOUTH FULTON...SPALDING...TALBOT...TALIAFERRO...TROUP...UPSON...
WALTON...WARREN...WILKES.

SNOW ADVISORY FROM 7 AM THIS MORNING TO 9 PM EST THIS EVENING
FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: BARTOW...CARROLL...CATOOSA...
CHATTOOGA...CHEROKEE...COBB...DADE...DAWSON...DOUGLAS...FANNIN...
FLOYD...GILMER...GORDON...HARALSON...LUMPKIN...MURRAY...
PAULDING...PICKENS...POLK...TOWNS...UNION...WALKER...WHITE...
WHITFIELD.

&&

[HURAKAN]

[timNms]

Snowing here in Seminary, MS. We have about half an inch on the ground. When i got up at 3:00 the flakes were huge. Now we have small flakes with some sleet mixed in. NWS in Jackson not saying anything about snow for this area...go figure. Guess they're waiting until we have a foot before they issue any advisories.

[Opal storm]

That's awesome Tim! Yep looks like plenty of sleet and snow now developing in portions of north MS and AL this morning.

[timNms]

That's awesome Tim! Yep looks like plenty of sleet and snow now developing in portions of north MS and AL this morning.

OMG. Snowing like crazy here again. HUGE flakes. We already have about an inch of snow on the groung!!! WOW


And get this....no weather advisory yet LOL

[Lowpressure]

Have fun and enjoy. Keep the updates coming in. This is going to be fun. What is your temp now Tim? Charlotte is 39.4 with the precip shield on our doorstep.

[timNms]

Have fun and enjoy. Keep the updates coming in. This is going to be fun. What is your temp now Tim? Charlotte is 39.4 with the precip shield on our doorstep.

At 3 am my daughter's car said it was 31 not sure what it is now prob at least 31

[Dionne]

IT SNOWED!!!!!!!!!!!!! Got up walking around this house, casually looked out the window......hot damn.....snow in the deep south. I'm gonna make a snow man. I feel like a little kid.

[HURAKAN]

SHIP S 1200 26.80 -91.20 65 260 190 42.0 - - - - - 29.80 -0.04 75.0 75.6
Link: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/radial_search. ... t=A&time=1

Station 42362 - Brutus - Green Canyon 158
Link: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=42362
Wind Direction (WDIR): ESE ( 120 deg true )
Wind Speed (WSPD): 40.8 kts
Atmospheric Pressure (PRES): 29.74 in
Water Temperature (WTMP): 72.3 °F

[timNms]

IT SNOWED!!!!!!!!!!!!! Got up walking around this house, casually looked out the window......hot damn.....snow in the deep south. I'm gonna make a snow man. I feel like a little kid.

Dionne, I know how you feel! My wife thinks I'm nuts! We've got at least 2 inches on the ground now and it's still snowing like crazy!

NWS in Jackson FINALLY put us under a heavy snow warning LOL.

[MississippiHurricane]

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HELLA YEA!!!!!!! lol sorry we haven't had snow in 8 years XD. I will take pics and post them. I am under a Heavy Snow Warning and a Winter Weather Advisory with more snow on the way. I just happened to wake up early this morning and hoping it snowed and of course it did/is! And of course no snow is complete without hot coco Local mets said a few flurries and thats it according to their "model runs" while Jim Cantore called it right on all night long.

[Byrd]

Just started snowing in Demopolis, Alabama, just 50 miles from Mississippi. It's been sleeting for hours.

James Spann, the Birmingham weatherman, says the low in the gulf is stronger than expected, explaining the unpredicted snow in Jackson.

Get out the camera, Brent! It's coming your way!

Byrd

[Dionne]

Still snowing....we're under a heavy snow warning also.....I cannot believe the ambient is 35F and snow still dropping. We've got almost 2 inches.....it should be turning over to rain soon... ....our little dog has never seen snow.....he doesn't know how to act. I had forgotten how much I missed the snow.

[Ivanhater]

Sitting at 37 with heavy rain.....a lot more precip to go....oh so close!!!!!!!

[Janie2006]

Hattiesburg still reporting snow as of the last hour. As a point of reference, Hattiesburg is about 65 miles north of the Gulf Coast. A rain/snow mix is being reported in Wayne and Greene counties of southeast Mississippi. NWS-Mobile has issued an advisory for the northern counties in its CWFA, as it is also snowing in Choctaw county.

I wonder if it's just possible that Mobile county (if not the suburbs proper) get in on the action. The current air temp at the airport is 37*F and the CAA has really kicked in on the north wind overnight.

[Dionne]

NWS Jackson has just changed our forecast to 70% snow/sleet. The flakes are getting bigger......this isn't just a dusting.....it's snowing.....everything but the roads are white.

[Ivanhater]

Hattiesburg still reporting snow as of the last hour. As a point of reference, Hattiesburg is about 65 miles north of the Gulf Coast. A rain/snow mix is being reported in Wayne and Greene counties of southeast Mississippi. NWS-Mobile has issued an advisory for the northern counties in its CWFA, as it is also snowing in Choctaw county.

I wonder if it's just possible that Mobile county (if not the suburbs proper) get in on the action. The current air temp at the airport is 37*F and the CAA has really kicked in on the north wind overnight.

NWS in Mobile has issued a snow adviosry for some of the CWA....the precip was not supposed to last this long...Looks like it will be changing over to snow this morning!

[Janie2006]

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
718 AM CST SAT JAN 19 2008

...SNOW ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF INTERIOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON...


ALZ052-MSZ067-075-076-192100-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SN.Y.0001.080119T1318Z-080119T2100Z/
WASHINGTON-WAYNE-PERRY-GREENE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATOM...MILLRY...WAYNESBORO...
RICHTON...BEAUMONT...NEW AUGUSTA...LEAKESVILLE...MCLAIN
718 AM CST SAT JAN 19 2008

...SNOW ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SNOW
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON.

.A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM ACROSS THE WESTERN GULF OF MEXICO WILL MOVE
NORTHEAST THIS MORNING AND INTO NORTH FLORIDA BY THIS EVENING. A
LARGE SHIELD OF PRECIPITATION TO THE NORTH OF THIS LOW WILL CONTINUE
TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA THIS
MORNING AND INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON. THE MIXTURE OF RAIN...SLEET AND
SNOW WILL GRADUALLY BECOME ALL SNOW DURING THE MORNING TO THE
NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM PERRY COUNTY MISSISSIPPI TO WILCOX COUNTY
ALABAMA. SNOWFALL AMOUNTS UP TO ONE INCH HAVE ALREADY BEEN REPORTED IN
PARTS OF WAYNE AND CHOCTAW COUNTIES THIS MORNING. TOTAL SNOW
ACCUMULATION IN THE ADVISORY AREA IS EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM 1 TO
NEARLY 2 INCHES.

Edited to add: Leave it to KMOB to wait to the last minute on snow advisories, although in all fairness I understaqnd why this happens.

[Janie2006]

NWS in Mobile has issued a snow adviosry for some of the CWA....the precip was not supposed to last this long...Looks like it will be changing over to snow this morning!

I think it's going to be close, very close indeed. Right now we're talking about probably a 60 mile difference. Radar indicates at least a mix developing in northern Washington County, as well as snow in Perry County, Ms. I have to question how long the precip will last before any sort of transition in Mobile County and points farther east. Hopefully so!

[Opal storm]

The moisture is coming to a abrupt halt at the TX/LA border, so the lower Gulf coast (Mobile, Pensacola etc) only have a few more hours of significant precip....and with temps just hovering a few degrees above freezing I have my doubts.