Calhoun County will be under Hard Freeze Warning beginning Friday

Brian Graves, The Anniston Star, Ala.
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Dec. 21—The earlier advisory by the National Weather Service in Birmingham concerning a Hard Freeze Watch for Calhoun County has been upgraded to a warning.

The warning is in effect from midnight Friday morning through 9 a.m. Sunday.

A Wind Chill Watch remains in effect from midnight Friday morning through noon on Saturday; however, Calhoun County remains on the border of counties now under a Wind Chill Warning.

The Calhoun County Emergency Management Agency posted the NWS forecast change just before noon on Wednesday calling the system "unlike anything we've seen for many years" and warning of its potential to be "dangerous or life-threatening."

Thursday will be cloudy with a slight chance of rain and a high of 54 degrees.

Thursday night is forecasted to have rain before midnight, then a slight chance of rain and snow between midnight and 3 a.m., then a chance of flurries after 3 a.m. The low temperature will fall to around 11 degrees.

Wind chill values are projected to be as low as -1 with the south winds gusting from 5 to 15 miles per hour before becoming northwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 35 miles per hour. The chance of precipitation is 80 percent with little or no snow accumulation expected.

Friday will be sunny and cold with a high of near 22 degrees with northwest winds gusting between 15 and 30 miles per hour.

Friday night will be mostly clear with a low of around 9 degrees.

Saturday remains clear with a high near 26 degrees and a low around 13 degrees.

Christmas Day will be sunny with a high of 35 degrees and a low of 18 degrees.

Temperatures are forecast to start climbing again on Monday with sunny skies and a high near 43 degrees and a low around 25 degrees.

Staff Writer Brian Graves: 256-236-1551.