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How cold was it overnight in Alabama?
Some Alabama cities experienced single-digit temperatures overnight, but Wednesday promises to be slightly “warmer” across Alabama, according to forecasters.
The National Weather Service was reporting temperatures as low as 1 degree early Wednesday morning in Alabama, with multiple locations in the single digits.
Here are some unofficial low temperatures from across Alabama from overnight (from midnight until 6 a.m. Wednesday):
Anniston: 10 degrees
Birmingham: 10 degrees
Decatur: 7 degrees
Demopolis: 13 degrees
Dothan: 19 degrees
Eufaula: 17 degrees
Evergreen: 16 degrees
Gadsden: 5 degrees
Greenville: 13 degrees
Haleyville: 1 degree
Huntsville: 8 degrees
Mobile: 19 degrees
Montgomery: 15 degrees
Muscle Shoals: 4 degrees
Ozark: 19 degrees
Selma: 14 degrees
Talladega: 8 degrees
Troy: 18 degrees
Tuscaloosa: 12 degrees
There may not be any record low temperatures today, but there were some record low high temperatures on Tuesday in Huntsville, Muscle Shoals, Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, according to the weather service.
The National Weather Service in Huntsville said there were record low high temperatures in both Huntsville and Muscle Shoals on Tuesday.
Huntsville’s high was 21 degrees, breaking the record of 24 in 2009. The high temperature in Muscle Shoals was 22 degrees on Tuesday, which tied the record last set in 1927.
The weather service in Birmingham said Birmingham’s high on Tuesday was 27 degrees, breaking the previous record in 1977 of 30, and Tuscaloosa’s high was 28 degrees, breaking the previous record of 31 in 1977.
Alabama will warm up a bit today, but it will remain very cold, with highs only expected to make it into the 30s for the northern half of the state. South Alabama is forecast to climb into the 40s (today’s forecast highs are at the top of this post).
Tonight will be very cold, but not as cold as Wednesday. Here are tonight’s forecast low temperatures:
Thursday’s highs will be a bit warmer than today, but the warmup will only be short-lived.
The weather service is expecting another shot of arctic air to arrive in Alabama starting on Thursday night. Wintry precipitation isn’t expected to be a big issue with this system, but it will send temperatures back into really cold territory this weekend.
Here are the forecast highs for Friday:
Low temperatures by Saturday morning could wind up in the single digits again in parts of Alabama:
Sunday will also have really cold low temperatures, but the weather service expects a warmup to begin on Monday, when highs are forecast to be back in the 40s and 50s across the state. Here are the forecast highs for Monday:
The warmup is expected to continue into next week.
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Erickson's 4 RBIs help Florida top Alabama and advance to the Women's CWS semifinals
OKLAHOMA CITY — Jocelyn Erickson homered and knocked in four runs and No. 4 seed Florida beat No. 14 Alabama 6-4 on Sunday night to advance to the Women’s College World Series semifinals and eliminate the Crimson Tide.
Korbe Otis and Ariel Kowalewski each added two hits for the Gators (53-14) in a game that started three hours late because of rain and lightning.
Florida advanced to play three-time defending national champion Oklahoma in the semifinals Monday. The Gators will have to beat the Sooners twice to reach the best-of-three championship series, while Oklahoma will need just one win to move on.
Erickson, a catcher, won a national championship with Oklahoma last season before transferring and will have to get through her former team to win another.
Florida pitcher Keagan Rothrock recovered from a rough outing against Texas the night before. The freshman gave up three earned runs on seven hits and now is alone as the nation’s leader with 32 wins.
Kayla Beaver got the start for Alabama and gave up two runs on six hits in four innings. Jocelyn Briski got the loss in relief for the Crimson Tide (39-20).
Alabama opened the scoring in the second. Bailey Dowling got on after a fielding error and she scored on a grounder by Riley Valentine.
Florida tied it in the third when Erickson’s single knocked in Skylar Wallace. Otis scored on a fielder’s choice after getting on with a walk to put the Gators up 2-1.
Alabama tied it at 2 in the third when Marlie Giles singled to score Lauren Johnson.
Reagan Walsh singled and knocked in a run in the fifth to put Florida back in front.
Erickson came up with runners on first and third with two outs in the sixth, and Alabama switched from Briski to Alea Johnson to give her a different look. Erickson took a Johnson pitch over the centerfield wall to make it 6-2.
Alabama hung tough. Kali Heivilin’s RBI single in the sixth made it 6-4. But Rothrock put the Crimson Tide down in order in the seventh.
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Florida softball vs. Alabama: Prediction for Women’s College World Series SEC showdown
The Gators will be playing for their season Sunday afternoon in Oklahoma City vs Alabama. Can Florida advance to the semis for the first time since 2017?
Two words will characterize the coming hours for Florida softball:
Quick turnaround.
If you expand it to three, another phrase comes to mind:
Flush it out.
That’s the boat the Gators find themselves in after their 10-0 loss to Texas in the second round of the Women’s College World Series on Saturday night in Oklahoma City.
The loss moved UF into the losers bracket, where it will face No. 14 Alabama Sunday at 3 p.m.
The Tide are riding high after staving off elimination of their own Friday night with a 2-1 win over Duke.
Here’s the keys to victory, along with a prediction:
Florida softball must rely on the past
Florida’s biggest asset this season has been its ability to bounce back from losses. It lost back-to-back games just once this season, to USF and then twice to Missouri April 10-13.
When UF suffered its most recent run-rule loss — 12-3 to FSU on April 24 — the Gators bounced back with an 11-6 win over Georgia.
More recently, Florida responded well after its 5-2 loss last Saturday to Baylor in the super regionals.
The squad spoke after that game about lessons learned from defeats, and that showed the following day with a 5-3 win over the Bears that sent UF to Oklahoma City.
Now, UF must dig into that bag of tricks once more.
“I think we’re going to control the vibes, keep the vibes loose, have fun,” Skylar Wallace said after Saturday’s loss. “We really have nothing to lose at this point. You just have to play softball.”
Avoid first inning troubles from Rothrock
When Tim Walton addressed the media postgame Saturday night, he said something obvious to most Gator fans about Keagan Rothrock.
“Typically when she goes good, she goes good. When she goes bad, she goes bad,” he said.
That idea reared its head Saturday when the freshman allowed two runs and three hits in the first before Walton pulled her in favor of Ava Brown.
That proved similar to the previous Saturday, when Rothrock was pulled in the first following three runs given up vs Baylor.
The next day, she made it through the first unscathed and pitched a beauty.
The same occurred Thursday in Florida’s eventual 1-0 win over Oklahoma State.
The opportunity is there Sunday vs a Bama offense that’s scored just three runs in two WCWS games. Rothrock just needs to take advantage.
Florida softball vs Alabama prediction
Florida 5, Alabama 3
After Saturday’s loss, UF faces a tall task to advance to its first championship series since 2017 as it must win three in a row.
I don’t see the road ending Sunday.
As mentioned, the Gators have shown a knack for recovering from losses. Rothrock should bounce back vs a Tide offense, and while Kayla Beaver is a phenomenal pitcher, Alabama isn’t the buzz saw that Texas or Oklahoma State is.
Wallace admitted that Bama is better than when UF won two of three from the Tide in mid-March.
But she acknowledged the Gators are better too, and that’ll show Sunday.
“We’re familiar with each other. We have a lot of film. We can reflect on that, see our goods, our bads, what can lead to us a good game plan and approach,” Wallace said.
Noah Ram covers Gainesville-area high school sports and University of Florida athletics for The Gainesville Sun. Contact him at Nram@gannett.com and follow him @Noah_ram1 on Twitter.
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