Light to moderate rain continues to dampen most of Middle Tennessee this afternoon.
Dry weather has already pushed into the northwest corner of the mid-state (Clarksville, Paris, Dover, Erin, etc.) but so has the cold air - temperatures there are falling through the lower 40s. At 2pm it was already down in the upper 30s in Paris. For the rest of Middle Tennessee, it’s a wet afternoon. This morning’s cold front is now past Knoxville and Birmingham, but there’s plenty of moisture on the backside of the front. Light to moderate rain should push out of Nashville during the early evening, but a few more patches of rain are possible until 9pm or so. For areas east and south of Nashville (Cookeville, Woodbury, Shelbyville, Lawrenceburg, Pulaski, Lewisburg, Manchester, Sparta, McMinnville, etc.) count on the steady rain through the evening. The precipitation should clear the southeast corner of Middle Tennessee after midnight.
Northwest winds will pick up after the rain, allowing cold air to quickly move into the area. Not quick enough to change the rain to snowflakes or other wintry weather in Nashville, in my opinion. I suppose that a little sleet or some wet snowflakes are possible on the back edge of the moisture up on the Cumberland Plateau late tonight, but the ground will have a tough time forgetting it was in the middle 60s this weekend (lower 70s in Nashville). Even though we’re dealing with the same system that hit the Central and Southern Plains, we don’t expect any freezing rain or accumulating snow. I even think that the winds behind the moisture will help dry the roads later this evening and tonight, before temperatures fall down around freezing. We’ll be checking SnowTracker tomorrow morning for any delays or closings up on the Plateau, just in case…
Meh.
Should we really trust accuweather, though?
I’d like to see us get a persistent snow shower event like st louis is getting right now. It seems plausible with that energy moving from the nw and moisture streaming from the sw. This is nashville, however, and it doesn’t snow here.
LOL, thats what I say Keith.. BUT THIS IS VERY INTERESTING!!
Snow falling once again here.. Im going to try to get a pic of it coming down. Its coming down at a pretty fast clip!! IM EXCITED
Folks, 3-6 inches of snow that never fell was very interesting too. Sorry to bring that back up. Don’t get too depressed.
Dan Thomas at the “enemy” lol just mentioned it…he said, “The forecast models have done a terrible job…”
What? Send in a picture for proof.
Awesome!
The radar plus site at accuweather doesn’t show precip type. It actually seems fairly primitive…it just moves the echos at whatever the initial movement was without taking into account the weather situation upsteam. It even maintains the same shape of the echoes 4 hours into the future. People pay for this? Accuweather is in the weathertainment business, so anything they say should be taken with a grain of salt.
I agree…but it is useful in certain ways. I know this is out there, but Kate Bilo is hot lol…so at least there’s one reason.
Toddrix I agree with you 100%! Clay, you would never believe me but when I ran and got my digi camera, it had already stopped.. It comes in waves, very short waves… lol But ive got it now in case it comes again.
Ok i just pulled up the blog…I thought just flurries were predicted?
Kate Bilo is pretty hot, but her video avatar really creeps me out when I read her blog. Check it out
http://wwwa.accuweather.com/news-blogs.asp?partner=accuweather&blog=bilo
Hey, Kailyn. You never did finish your analysis of the GFS. Do you mind when you get a chance?
Kailyn what sex are you?? Just wondering.. hehheh
I’ll get right to it.
Don’t be a smart @$$, Ryan. JK
I’m 17 and I’m a male.
That name is pretty random.
LOL ME Never!
yea i was wondering what was going on there too ryan.
What name?? Yours, because I was wondering hummm what do we have here.. LOL.. Well im 18 male and as you probably know now that I live in Hickman County..
My screen name is very random.
My real name is K. Allyn Cosey, II
LOL @ Matt
Thats a pretty cool name man.. BUT WHATS THE WEATHER GONNA DO!!! THATS ALL THAT IS ON MY MIND!!
Looking at nearby radars is certainly giving me a little hope. St louis is showing snow showers, Springfield Il is showing snow, Evansville shows some flurries, Louisville shows snow showers developing, and Indianapolis is getting an accumulating band of snow as we speak. Seems like Nashville should be next..I’ll cross my fingers. One other thing of note is the Snow in Indy which is Lake Enhanced. The fetch off of Lake Michigan is a rare North to South. The significance of this is that Nashville is directly south of the lake. Although we’re hundreds of miles away, its has at least add a little more moisture to the atmosphere.
I call it:
either
VIRGA
or
IP-/FZDZ-/SHSN-
Posted by: Kailyn Leto at January 15, 2007 10:13 PM
Folk this link is a must see, look how far south the -20 line gets, into Tennessee! 540 thickness line gets to Miami. What has the computer been smokin’.
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/namer/gfs/00/images/gfs_p06_252l.gif
It’s interesting to note…aviationweather.noaa.gov has a map, and there is a threat for icing from 1000′ to FL300 (30k feet, or ~9500m) over us.
Light flurries in Columbia.
switch to the next blog section,
ok
I said that just to get us to 80 comments.
haaaaaaahha 81 now sucka!