Good Thursday morning to you…

Weather: Still freezing. Temperatures today are not expected to get above the freezing mar, though bright sunshine and calmer winds will help things feel not quite as cold. Lows tonight will drop to around 20. Friday will be sunny with a high near 40, but lows Friday night will fall to the upper teens.

Late classes today. Nearly all local school systems started classes two hours late today because of the extreme cold, with Tabernacle Christian School in Gardendale being an exception. No word yet on whether that will occur again Friday, but with temperatures expected to be 10 or more degrees warmer, regular schedules could likely resume.

“Je suis Charlie.” France is reeling today after terrorists linked to Muslim extremists gunned down at least 11 people at the offices of a satirical newspaper in Paris. Three gunmen entered during an editorial-board meeting at Charlie Hebdo (“weekly Charlie” in English, referring to Charlie Brown in the Peanuts comic strip the paper carried), and shot and killed the editor and several staffers, as well as police guards inside and outside the building. The attacks were in retaliation to cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad, as well as other anti-Islamic cartoons and stories the paper had carried. Once of the attackers has since been captured. In response, thousands of French citizens gathered in a square in Paris to support the newspaper, chanting “Je suis Charlie” (“I am Charlie”).

Sports: Bye, Jameis. Florida State quarterback and Hueytown native Jameis Winston is leaving the Seminoles two years earl to enter the National Football League draft. Winston, who won the Heisman Trophy last year but whose ‘Noles were eliminated from the College Football Playoff by Oregon, has been a lightning rod because of several off-field incidents, including accusations of sexual assault… Basketball: Among the local teams in action tonight are Mortimer Jordan at Corner and Indian Springs at Fultondale.