HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - There could be more snow on the way to north Alabama next week. A lot more.

Potentially, possibly, a whole lot more.

Or maybe not.

This possibility is based on a weather model that projects almost a foot of snow for parts of north Alabama next Wednesday and Thursday.

WHNT Channel 19 chief meteorologist Jason Simpson wrote about the European model forecast in his weather blog Wednesday.

"Will it snow again?" Simpson wrote Wednesday. "I don't know, but it's a possibility if you believe the guidance. Last night's European model went bonkers with a huge snow for the Tennessee Valley. Before you look at it, understand that it's only a model. I really don't have any confidence that this is a real possibility; what it does show us is that while the over-all weather pattern is changing, it may not be improving much.

"Don't go tell everybody that Jason said it's going to snow a foot. If you do, I'll send my snoring bulldog to your house for a week."

The snow, according to the weather model, would come from the southern edge of a system moving across Tennessee and Kentucky and into North Carolina and Virginia.

The National Weather Service forecasting office in Huntsville has a 30 percent of snow showers across north Alabama in its forecast for next Wednesday.

Like Simpson, Kurt Weber, a weather service meteorologist, wasn't eager to put full faith in the weather model.

"It's honestly too far out," he said. "It's something we're watching, something that could be potential issues as far as some sort of winter weather during that period."

Weber said that weather models become more unreliable when there are dramatic changes in weather patterns. For instance, low temperatures across north Alabama this morning hovered between 0 and 10 degrees. By Saturday, high temperatures are expected to be near 60 degrees. And the weather service is calling for a chance of snow by Sunday night.

"In general, it really is a big change we're seeing as far as the forecast going forward compared to what we have had and models don't always handle that very well," Weber said. "That's not to say it won't happen. Keep it in mind but I'd give it a little while and see how the trends go with it.

"I would say keep it in mind, keep up to date as we get to the weekend and the first of next week. Keep it in the back of your minds but don't get too excited yet."