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North Alabama bracing for potential round of snow, ice

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Snowflake glowing on dark textured background. Macro photo of real snow crystal: large stellar dendrite with glossy relief surface, thin, complex arms and tiny bubbles of frozen rime across crystal. snow tile snowflake tile winter tile glitter blue ice tile weather / Getty Images Snowflake glowing on dark textured background. Macro photo of real snow crystal: large stellar dendrite with glossy relief surface, thin, complex arms and tiny bubbles of frozen rime across crystal. snow tile snowflake tile winter tile glitter blue ice tile weather / Getty Images

By Associated Press 2 min read

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Schools shut down or switched to online classes Thursday and road crews got ready for a bitter blast as forecasters said north Alabama was in store for frigid temperatures and a second round of frozen precipitation this week.

More than two dozen school systems in the Tennessee Valley altered schedules because of an approaching storm the National Weather Service said could dump 1 inch of show and coat roads, trees and power lines with ice. Winds combined with temperatures in the teens will make it feel like the single digits overnight, the National Weather Service said.

David Smith, director of the Colbert County Emergency Management Agency, said the potential for ice was the biggest concern.

“If we get anything on the trees and it brings down power lines, that’ll be an issue, too, that we don’t need,” he told a news briefing.

Just how far south the snow or ice reaches depends on how quickly freezing temperatures invade the Deep South, forecasters said. Lows early Friday were predicted in the mid-20s as far south as central Alabama, and temperatures may not rise much above freezing in the northern end of Alabama on Friday.