The weather service urged people to have food, medicine, and heating sources to potentially days without power.

Our team is tracking the chance for a potential winter storm this weekend, with the risk of ice, snow and freezing rain.

“Saturday night is NOT an easy forecast,” one National Weather Service forecaster in Alabama wrote in a forecast discussion on Thursday. The weather service cautioned that there are a lot of details to be ironed out, and forecast models aren’t exactly in agreement on what will happen.

“If current forecast model trends hold, and so far they have for the last 48 hours or so, this could become a dangerous winter event for the northern half of the state of Alabama,” the weather service in Birmingham said in its Tuesday forecast discussion.

Cold Arctic air is moving into the Deep South this weekend. Could it snow in Alabama? Here’s what forecasters are watching closely.

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