Cold again this weekend: Freeze warnings for Alabama
More unseasonably cold weather is on its way to Alabama this weekend.
The National Weather Service has gone ahead and issued freeze warnings and watches for part of the state in anticipation of temperatures at or below freezing over the weekend in certain areas.
Cold air will begin to arrive tonight in the wake of a cold front that could bring severe storms to south Alabama today.
Low temperatures tonight will fall into the low 30s in north Alabama, the mid-30s in central Alabama, and the low to mid-40s in south Alabama:
Here are the forecast low temperature for Friday night into Saturday morning.
Saturday night could be even colder. Here are the forecast lows:
Most of the state will be in the 30s by early Sunday morning.
Here’s a look at the warnings and watches for Alabama:
NORTH ALABAMA
For north Alabama a freeze warning will be in effect from late tonight into Saturday morning.
The north Alabama counties in the warning are Lauderdale, Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan, Marshall, Jackson, DeKalb and Cullman.
A freeze watch has been issued for those same north Alabama counties for the Saturday night-Sunday morning timeframe, according to the weather service.
CENTRAL ALABAMA
A freeze warning has also been issued for the northern part of central Alabama for the overnight hours tonight.
Those counties are Marion, Winston, Walker, Blount, Etowah, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, St. Clair, Talladega, Clay and Randolph. The warning will be in effect from 1 a.m. until 9 a.m. Saturday.
There will also be a freeze watch for Saturday night into Sunday morning for those same counties.
In addition there will also be a freeze watch from late Saturday into Sunday for Lamar, Fayette, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Jefferson, Shelby, Sumter, Greene, Hale, Perry, Bibb, Chilton, Coosa, Tallapoosa, Chambers, Marengo, Dallas, Autauga, Elmore and Lee counties.
A freeze watch has been issued for most of central Alabama for late Saturday into early Sunday morning.
Sunday night into Monday morning will also be cold, and there could be more freeze watches and warnings coming over the weekend for that timeframe.
Here are the forecast lows for Sunday night into Monday morning:
Forecast low temperatures from Sunday night into Monday morning.
The cold is expected to back off next week, but more below-average temperatures will be possible, forecasters said.