No need to panic or party, but seriously, it’s late March and we think it’ll snow tonight and tomorrow night. Counting both nights, look for “around an inch.”

The NWS Graphicast:

Here’s the text for tonight into Monday: “less than one half inch.”

AS FOR THE SNOWFALL ACCUMULATION POTENTIAL...THE FIRST DISTURBANCE WILL EFFECT THE AREA LATE TONIGHT AND INTO MONDAY. AREAS ALONG THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU COULD SEE ONE HALF TO 1 INCH OF SNOWFALL BY MONDAY AFTERNOON. ACROSS NON PLATEAU AREAS OF NORTHERN MIDDLE TN...ONLY MINOR ACCUMULATIONS OF LESS THAN ONE HALF INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE. ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF MIDDLE TN...NO MORE THAN A TRACE IS EXPECTED. read more

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Even though we may still see a few more drive-thru showers this afternoon, the majority of the rain and all of the storms are gone. Strong winds are piling into Middle TN. Wind gusts were found to our west, and moving our way, in the 20 and 30mph range around 3:15pm today: read more

From our NWS. Radar Image from 2pm.

A BAND OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE RAPIDLY EASTWARD THROUGH 345 PM THIS AFTERNOON. AT ABOUT 200 PM CDT... THE BAND EXTENDED FROM NEAR PORTLAND...TO NEAR FRANKLIN...SMYRNA AND LEWISBURG. THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS REPORTS RECEIVED THIS AFTERNOON OF SMALL HAIL...PEA TO DIME SIZE...ASSOCIATED WITH THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE BRIEF WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH. read more

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…A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MUCH OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE THROUGH 215 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON…

AT 1208 PM CDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A DEVELOPING LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS…SOME STRONG…EXTENDING FROM
JUST WEST OF CLARKSVILLE…TO NEAR LOBELVILLE AND WAYNESBORO…MOVING
RAPIDLY EAST AT AROUND 50 MPH. read more

Today expect rain this afternoon with a small thunderstorm chance, falling temps tonight, maybe a few snowflakes overnight with little or no accumulation, and a lot of wind. This is “Marchuary” (a term used by Tom Johnstone, who is the Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the NWS in Nashville) at it’s finest. read more

The map below shows rainfall totals under a half inch from Sunday morning through Wednesday morning. Most of this rain will fall this afternoon into Sunday morning and afternoon.  We may see a stray thunderstorm or two, but nothing to worry about. read more

There’s still a small chance these models are wrong, but on this they agree: no rain until around dusk tonight, probably later.

Good news for East Nasty Beer Fest and Afternoon Brides.