<p>*No, Tuscaloosa does not have equipment to handle any sort of snow and the city/state practically shuts down. People panic when the word “snow” appears in the forecast. Store shelves are cleared out of milk, bread, batteries, etc.
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<p>When we moved here, we were told about this odd thing of people getting worried when they hear the word “snow” in the forecast. How funny!!! We only get flurries and very little accumulation.</p>
<p>I don’t know of any Alabama city that has snow equipment. We were told that since we get so little snow, it’s not cost effective to buy the equipment, and it’s not cost effective to have people trained to drive/handle the equipment.</p>
<p>“The weather here is mostly “blue skies and fluffy white clouds” - which can be deceiving because the temp can actually be quite low (so never look out a window in the window to guess what to wear.)”</p>
<p>Yup, unless it’s monsooning haha. Tuscaloosa weather is so crazy sometimes–one minute, it’s nice and sunny, and the next it’s a torrential downpour.</p>
<p>I’m definitely lookin forward to those higher temps though.</p>
<p>It is true that sudden fast rain can occur, which is why some kids keep an umbrella in their backpacks. </p>
<p>That’s not just in Tuscaloosa, but this whole general area in the south. I live by the Tenn border, and we get that “sudden hard rain” too. Usually, it doesn’t last long, but it can seem to come out of nowhere - and then be sunny again. Weird!</p>
<p>In Southern Cal, where I’m from, it doesn’t rain often, but when it rains, it rains for days and days. We never liked that either. lol</p>