Mixed Wintry Weather This Weekend

February 12, 2016

WBBJ 7 Eyewitness News Staff,

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Weather Update – 10:00 p.m. Friday

Temperatures will be falling to the teens and low 20s overnight into early Saturday. Wind chills could be in the single digits and low teens to start off the day so make sure to bundle up if you’ll be planning to go out!

After the cold start Saturday, clouds will return to West Tennessee skies, and we can expect to begin to see the wintry mix arrive as early as by Sunday morning. Each update to the forecast brings the chance for ice and snow into northwest Tennessee earlier, so right now we’ll expect to see the frozen precipitation arrive during the later (9am – 12pm) hours of the morning there. Southwest Tennessee may mostly or only see rain out of this event due to warmer air moving in from the southwest. 1″-2″ inches of RAIN will be possible in West Tennessee when all is said and done.

Areas along and north of Interstate 40 will have a chance for sleet and freezing rain at first on Sunday with light accumulation possible.

Farther north, in northwest Tennessee near the Tennessee River and near the Kentucky-Tennessee border, there will be a better chance for snow. Higher amounts of snow are expected to fall farther north, and lower amounts farther south. So Parsons, Lexington, Medina, Trenton, and Dyersburg may only get a trace to 1″ but there could be more in Camden, Paris, Martin, and Union City.

As temperatures continue to warm up Sunday evening, whatever snow and ice does fall should be melting. As a result, there could be some dangerous travel conditions in northwest Tennessee on Sunday afternoon and early evening but later on Sunday night into Monday morning, roads should become safer to drive on. Only rain is currently expected on the back edge of the area of low pressure as it moves east on Monday morning. Temperatures will gradually warm up as we go through the rest of the week with highs near the low 60s Thursday and Friday.