Pat Duggins

You might call it Alabama's arctic weather “round two.” Temperatures on Monday morning are expected in the mid-teens with wind chills in the single digits. The Gulf coast is bracing for a near one hundred percent of snow on Tuesday. This is Alabama's second shot of arctic weather in about a week. The first one dropped up to seven inches of snow, closed schools, and delay airline flights. Jennifer Saari is a forecaster with the National Weather Service. She says people typically make one mistake with this kind of cold blast…

Donald Trump is settling into his second term in office. Now, an Associated Press analysis is using Alabama as an example of how he might try to stick around for a third. The Constitution prevents Trump from staying in office past his current term. But, the AP points out that didn’t stop George Wallace from remaining in power as governor.

Residents along the Alabama Gulf coast could see something they reportedly haven’t seen in seven years. There’s an eighty five percent chance of snow today. The Gulf coast got a taste of winter weather back in late 2017 and early 2018. That was a tenth of inch. Some forecasts put today’s snowfall at possibly two to five inches.

President Trump is taking action to pardon or commute the prison sentences of over fifteen hundred people accused in the January sixth insurrection at the Capitol. We’re awaiting confirmation on whether that includes nineteen Alabamians. Russell Alford of Hokes Bluff and Joshua Black are part of that group. Each was reportedly convicted of illegally possessing a dangerous weapon on Capitol grounds and disorderly conduct among other counts. Trump’s list also includes leaders of far-right extremist groups convicted of failed plots to keep the Republican in power.

Drivers in Mobile County are being urged to temporarily avoid bridges and roads as the Gulf coast shivers its way through what’s being called its first ever blizzard alert. Schools in Mobile, Baldwin, Washington, and Escambia Counties are reported closed through Wednesday. Parents should check with their child’s school for updates. The current snow warning for the Mobile area extends until 6 am Wednesday.

The snow is still falling along the Gulf coast, but it’s already considered to be a record breaker. Early reports put the snowfall at Mobile Regional Airport at over six inches and five more in Pensacola. If so, that would break the five inch record in Alabama’s Port City set back in 1881. There was also three inches that fell in 1973 and a dusting in late 2017 and 2018.

January is national anti-human trafficking month. It’s a campaign to focus on the billion dollar industry that deceives or forces people into being victims of sex or labor trafficking. Researchers at the University of Alabama in Birmingham are working at improving how trafficking can be tracked down on the internet.

Snow records are falling right and left this week. But, it looks Mobile takes the cake so far. The six and a half inches that fell by mid day Tuesday topped the six inches of snow Alabama’s Port City saw in 1881. The town of Milton, Florida is making headlines for almost ten inches that broke a record in 1954. Pensacola’s snowfall topped the three inches back in 1985. New Orleans record from 1963 was also erased. Tuesday’s low of six degrees also tied Mobile coldest night in 1899.

An Alabama woman passed a major milestone over the weekend following groundbreaking surgery. Towana Looney is the longest living patient to receive a transplanted organ of a pig. In her case, a kidney. Her doctor in New York City says organ is absolutely normal. The FDA allows pig organ transplantation when patients are out of options.

Alabama’s mens basketball team chalked up another win. The difference was the Tide beat LSU with no help from star guard Mark Sears. The usual playmaker for Alabama was held scoreless for the first half of the game and sat out on the bench for the second half.