Approaching one foot (30 cm) in parts of northern Alabama. We’re talking about the deep south here!
Snowiest February on record in Huntsville
Some 8.1 inches of snow fell in Huntsville on Wednesday, making it the snowiest February day on record in Huntsville, and the snowiest month of February on record with 8.7 inches, according to the weather service.
The previous record snowfall for a day in February was 8 inches on Feb. 15, 1958.making yesterday the second-snowiest day in the city’s history.
Here’s someone traveling along Cecil Ashburn Drive in Huntsville
The only day that Huntsville has seen more snow than on Wednesday was Dec. 31, 1963, when 15.7 inches fell, the weather service said.
Elsewhere around north Alabama, snow totals were staggering, with three locations in Marshall County reporting 11 (28 cm) or more inches of snow.
Here is a sampling of snowfall measurements across north Alabama collected by the weather service (updated Feb. 26, 2015 at 10:30 a.m.):
- Grant (Marshall County): 11.5 inches (29 cm) (social media report)
- Guntersville (Marshall County): 11 inches (two separate community reports)
- Hartselle: 11 inches (trained spotter report)
- Trinity (Morgan County): 11 inches (social media report)
- Dutton (Jackson County): 10.5 inches (public report)
- Owens Cross Roads (Madison County): 10 inches (social media report)
- Cullman: 10 inches (social media report)
- Phil Campbell (Franklin County): 10 inches (social media report)
- Moulton: 9 inches (social media report)
- Decatur: 9 inches (social media report)
- Cullman: 9 inches (social media report)
- Asbury: 9 inches (social media report)
- Eva: 9 inches (social media report)
- Gurley: 9 inches (trained spotter report)
- Madison: 8.5 inches (social media report)
- Athens: 8.5 inches (trained spotter report)
- Rainsville: 8.5 inches (media report)
- Holly Pond: 8.5 inches (social media report)
- Priceville: 8.1 inches (community report)
- Huntsville: 8.1 inches (official weather service report)
- New Hope: 8 to 10 inches (social media report)
- Pisgah: 8 inches (community report)
- Harvest: 7 inches (trained spotter report)
- Hampton Cove: 7 inches (public report)
- Russellville: 7 inches (social media report)
- Monte Sano: 6.5 inches
- Florence: 6.2 inches (trained spotter report)