Cold Night for Trick-Or-Treaters in West Tennessee

WBBJ 7 Forecast Update:

October 31, 2023

Joel Barnes,

WBBJ 7 Forecast Update:

Temperatures have fallen into the 30s for almost of all of West Tennessee at the 9pm hour. The winds are the only thing keeping the temperatures above freezing, but the wind chill is in the 20s for most of us already. Overnight lows will fall down to the low to mid 20s with a wind chill in the teens around sunrise Wednesday.

Jackson fell down to 28° last night just missing the record of 27°. Tonight we are going to be even colder falling down to around 24°, but the record tonight is 22°. Some warmer weather will look to return towards the back half of the week and into the weekend. I will have the latest on when the showers will be returning to West Tennessee and the rest of your forecast coming up here.

FIRST FREEZE OF 2023:

Our first freeze in Jackson usually occurs towards the end of October or the beginning over November. Last year our first freeze was early on October 18th but the previous year we didn’t see our first freeze until November 4th. Over the last 10 years, our first freeze has ranged from Mid October to early November. This year, our first freeze was on October 30th.

Usually we see our first frost a couple weeks before we see our first freeze, but this year, they are both came in on the same night. The forecast for Tuesday night on Halloween looks even colder than tonight with some locations possibly following down into the low 20s, the record Tuesday night is 22°.

TONIGHT:

After starting out in the 20s in the morning, highs only reached up to around 50° for your Tuesday. We saw mostly sunny to sunny skies but that didn’t help it feel much warmer into the afternoon hours. The winds were a bit breezy as well and come out of the northwest adding to the brisk weather most of the day. Tuesday night is going to fall down to the low to mid 20s overnight into Tuesday morning.

Hopefully if you have some little ones and you do not want to deal with the cold that you took advantage of the warmer weather this weekend and did some Halloween things with your little ones. It will be a cold night for the kids with temperatures ranging from 45°-35° during the Trick-Or-Treating Hours.

WEDNESDAY:

We are going to bottom out from this cold wave on Wednesday morning with morning lows starting out in the low to mid 20s. Highs on Wednesday will struggle to make it up above 50° with many of us only reaching the upper 40s for high temperatures. We will see plenty of sunshine and the winds will be light and shift from the northwest to the south as the day progresses. We will all see frost in the morning on Wednesday so please bundle up and be prepared for the cold.

THURSDAY/FRIDAY:

Warmer weather is going to slowly move back in towards the back half of the work week. We will still see plenty of sunshine but the winds will come out of the south and that will try to slowly warm us back up near normal by Friday. Thursday morning will still be cold in the upper 20s but we should warm up close to 60° by the afternoon on Thursday. Friday morning will start out in the mid 30s but high temperatures in the afternoon will make it back up into the mid 60s. The weather looks a bit cool but not too bad for Friday night football games again. You will need a jacket/coat for sure though. We are not expecting any rain to fall on Thursday or Friday this week.

THE WEEKEND:

We should warm back up nicely for the upcoming weekend with highs reaching up to around 70s. We should see clouds increasing as the weekend progresses and there could be a shot for some showers trying to return on Sunday but overall confidence in the late weekend rain chance is pretty low as of now. The winds this weekend will start out of the south and transition to the west. There could be a late weekend front approaching as well but we are not sure if it will push through the Mid South or not. Morning lows this weekend will be around 40° on Saturday and in the mid to upper 40s for Sunday morning. Rain chances look to increase and likely return early next week as the next cold front will be on the way on Monday or Tuesday.

FINAL THOUGHT:

The first frost and freeze came early this week and it will be a very cold day for Halloween festivities, so be sure to add an extra layer to your costumes and please keep the little ones bundled up and warm before you send them out for candy on Tuesday. Also, please remember the 4ps as this is our first real cold spell of the fall. Rain looks to be staying away for the rest of the week as well. The tropics look to be relatively quiet but we are not quite done yet with hurricane season as we are watching a potential storm in the southern Caribbean. We got you covered in the WBBJ 7 Storm Team Weather Center as always.