Current Official Hourly Observation (taken at :53 on the hour) & Radar
“Soup-er Cold.”
Because you’re gonna want to eat some “soup” to warm up!
(Editor’s Note: Honestly, I can’t think of anything better than The Intern’s soup joke. I would be a dead man had I made that pun during a guest appearance on the Andy Gibb Talk Show. For this I BLAME WINTER).
Light rain will continue today, ending sometime tonight.
An arctic cold front will arrive tomorrow night with rain + non-accumulating snow. A few flurries may be flying Wednesday, but no travel impacts are expected here.
Current Official Hourly Observation (taken at :53 on the hour)
Tonight – Increasing Clouds – Midnight Temp 45
Clouds will gather overnight. Rain is on the way.
Monday – Rain – Morning Low 41 / 55 Afternoon High
Tonight – Rain – Temps in Mid 50s
Officially, rain should arrive around 9 PM, and continue into the wee hours of Saturday morning. The HRRR thinks it’ll start later than that, around 1 AM or 2 AM. The time is in the upper right corner in EST (so subtract one hour):
Current Official Hourly Observation (taken at :53 on the hour)
Today – Afternoon High 9, Overnight Low 4
Precip. A few flurries will fly today, but no meaningful accumulations are expected.
Winds. Will start to die down tonight and tomorrow, relieving us of the more extreme wind chills.
Current Official Hourly Observation (taken at :53 on the hour)
8:40 PM Update
Our NWS issued the following statement at 8:32 PM:
Also watching much lighter snow than we saw earlier tonight work SE down I-24. Radar at 8:29 PM:
9:00 AM Update
We have new forecast graphics.
Looks like a pretty nice day! Keep reading.
Snow ETA is 6 PM to 9 PM, but could be as low as 5 PM. Rain should begin before then (around 4 PM or so).
At 3:05 PM, our NWS issued a Special Weather Statement titled “Anywhere from 1″ to 4″ of Snow Possible Sunday Afternoon and Evening.” The 4″ is more likely for the plateau and counties north of Davidson Co. Click here to read the statement. Much of what it says is covered below.
This afternoon’s weather “is the warmest we’ll see for quite a while.” (NWS).
Thursday
The RAP shows the rain-changing-to-snow approaching tonight, Midnight to 6 AM:
Most of the rain will fall before the freezing line pushes through:
Thursday
GFS Model
A cold front arrives Thursday morning, pushing rain out ahead of it, as shown by the GFS model:
Around noon Thursday, the cold front pushes through middle Tennessee, changing the rain to snow: