I recently came across the items below while going through some family photographs. They are undated, but were snapped by dad presumably on March 2, 1960, when a severe ice storm hit Huntsville and the rest of north Alabama. I would have been eight years old and younger brother Richard four, so that fits our appearances here. At the time we were living on Cloverdale Drive just off Jordan Lane. I'm not sure where these photos were taken, though.
The storm was notable enough for Baker B. Williams of the U.S. Weather Service in Huntsville to write an extensive article about it for the Weatherwise journal and published in the October 1960 issue. The first page can be seen below; the rest of the article is behind a paywall.
Three and a half inches of precipitation were recorded in Huntsville that day and the low temperature was 33. Lows were below freezing each day following until March 9. March 5 had a low of 12 degrees.
If you have any memories of this ice storm, please tell us in the comments!
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