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Wintry Jan 6-7 2022 Winter potential

Encouraging words from the NWS Huntsville tonight:
Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Huntsville AL
954 PM CST Wed Jan 5 2022

.NEAR TERM...(Rest of tonight)
Issued at 954 PM CST Wed Jan 5 2022

Clear skies continue across much of the area. A few high clouds
continue to push southeast into Cullman county and northeastern
Alabama at this hour. Very light or calm winds are in place in most
locations of northern Alabama and southern middle Tennessee as well.
These conditions, along with some drier air advecting into the
region, have allowed temperatures to drop into the mid to upper 30s
in most locations. In some locations, despite some drier air moving
into the area, temperatures have dropped down to dewpoint values and
some lowering visibilities are occurring as the boundary layer
saturates and fog formation is starting. Think this will mostly
happen near and east of the I-65 corridor. Around or just after
midnight, think that even drier air will push southeast ahead of the
resurging cold front dropping further south from southern Missouri.
This should put an end to any fog development then.

Complicated setup continues over the southeast this evening, as a
surface low that was over eastern Texas continues to move to the
east southeast over the last few hours. 3 hour pressure change trends
suggest this will continue. As mentioned earlier a strong cold front
with very dry air behind it is re-surging southward over the last
few hours. We will be watching this very closely overnight into
Thursday morning. Could see some isolated to scattered rain or
freezing rain push into northwestern Alabama with this forcing around
4 to 6 AM. However, the bulk of the precipitation and wintry weather
should push east into the area after 6 AM on Thursday.

The further south this front gets, the better chance lower dewpoints
and freezing temperatures around daybreak and into the day on
Thursday will combine with strong low/mid level forcing to produce
significant wintry weather across the area. Models hint that strong
forcing seen in guidance could lead to higher freezing rain or
snowfall totals over portions of the area, especially northwestern
Alabama east to near the I-65 corridor and in southern middle
Tennessee. Kept close to previous forecast with colder overnight
lows than more recent guidance with lows dropping into the upper 20s
to lower 30s around daybreak. Also, kept previous forecast for snow
totals (1-2 inches) in southern middle Tennessee and freezing rain
totals (0.01 to 0.20 inches) elsewhere, but subsequent shifts may
need to increase these amounts.
 
Stormlover said:
Encouraging words from the NWS Huntsville tonight:
Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Huntsville AL
954 PM CST Wed Jan 5 2022

.NEAR TERM...(Rest of tonight)
Issued at 954 PM CST Wed Jan 5 2022

Clear skies continue across much of the area. A few high clouds
continue to push southeast into Cullman county and northeastern
Alabama at this hour. Very light or calm winds are in place in most
locations of northern Alabama and southern middle Tennessee as well.
These conditions, along with some drier air advecting into the
region, have allowed temperatures to drop into the mid to upper 30s
in most locations. In some locations, despite some drier air moving
into the area, temperatures have dropped down to dewpoint values and
some lowering visibilities are occurring as the boundary layer
saturates and fog formation is starting. Think this will mostly
happen near and east of the I-65 corridor. Around or just after
midnight, think that even drier air will push southeast ahead of the
resurging cold front dropping further south from southern Missouri.
This should put an end to any fog development then.

Complicated setup continues over the southeast this evening, as a
surface low that was over eastern Texas continues to move to the
east southeast over the last few hours. 3 hour pressure change trends
suggest this will continue. As mentioned earlier a strong cold front
with very dry air behind it is re-surging southward over the last
few hours. We will be watching this very closely overnight into
Thursday morning. Could see some isolated to scattered rain or
freezing rain push into northwestern Alabama with this forcing around
4 to 6 AM. However, the bulk of the precipitation and wintry weather
should push east into the area after 6 AM on Thursday.

The further south this front gets, the better chance lower dewpoints
and freezing temperatures around daybreak and into the day on
Thursday will combine with strong low/mid level forcing to produce
significant wintry weather across the area. Models hint that strong
forcing seen in guidance could lead to higher freezing rain or
snowfall totals over portions of the area, especially northwestern
Alabama east to near the I-65 corridor and in southern middle
Tennessee. Kept close to previous forecast with colder overnight
lows than more recent guidance with lows dropping into the upper 20s
to lower 30s around daybreak. Also, kept previous forecast for snow
totals (1-2 inches) in southern middle Tennessee and freezing rain
totals (0.01 to 0.20 inches) elsewhere, but subsequent shifts may
need to increase these amounts.
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This storm gonna go Boom for north Alabama.
 
crecre9 said:
I think they are saying that NW AL and southern middle Tennessee totals may increase, nothing in there about north Alabama in general, to include the Huntsville metropolitan area.
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Not really, they say this"
especially northwestern
Alabama east to near the I-65 corridor "
So it's not saying totals may not increase at Huntsville, just the better chance is around i65 and west, which huntsville city limits go to, and up into middle tennessee. No surprise there, but the talk about the farther the front sinks, it could mean a big difference in just a few miles..
 
Tennessee is flexing this morning. Half a foot potential in Nashville? Mentioned yesterday these warnings would get expanded more into TN. Surprised they waited til overnight to do it with consistency in model guidance for most of TN.9585ED39-7DF3-4D02-B713-496D4D5F1D79.png
 
Looking good for Tennessee. Yall stay safe out there and enjoy!!! My mother was born in Rockwood outside of Knoxville. Go Volunteers!!!!
 
Heres a solid forecast map for anyone chasing, heading to the mtns. Get on the tN/NC state line and youll be in the sweet spot:4-7. from rays wx center


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Does someone have a link to a map that shows the current freeze line or a map that would show the forecasted freeze line progression throughout the day?
 
Mcdowell_weather said:
Looking good for Tennessee. Yall stay safe out there and enjoy!!! My mother was born in Rockwood outside of Knoxville. Go Volunteers!!!!
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Pouring snow here , silver dollar flakes ground solid white already here west Tennessee . I’m on west end of the meso put out by spc 1 to 2 inch per hour rates now falling
 
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