re: The Birmingham weather people dropped the ball big time

The question I have is at 8:50 I looked out our window on campus and saw snow sticking on the roads and started telling people we needed to get out. I'm no meteorologist but at 9am it was clear Tuscaloosa was going to be iced over by lunch and it took them two hours to cancel school/work and release all commuter traffic at the same time.

Shouldn't some meteorologist have caught this around 4-6 am the storm didn't just jump 70 miles north at 9 am. The first wreck due to icy conditions I heard about happened before 10 am so I went ahead and left for the day. What a difference an hour can make in that situation.