Wet Week Ahead with Warmer Weather

January 8, 2018

Weather Update – 11:00 p.m. – Monday

Under mostly cloudy skies, temperatures will drop to the middle and upper 30s by sunrise on Tuesday morning. We shouldn’t be concerned with any icing since the weather will keep us just above freezing at the coldest point of the night with light winds. Visibility could be less than a quarter mile in some parts of West Tennessee tonight and Tuesday morning, and a Dense Fog Advisory has been issued for all of West Tennessee until 9 a.m. as a result.

After starting out chilly Tuesday morning, we’ll end up with warmer weather than we had today in the afternoon! Skies will start out cloudy too and we can’t rule out an isolated shower, but despite the lack of sunshine, we’ll still warm up to the lower 50s at the warmest point of the day. Even warmer weather is forecast after that with highs in the middle 60s on Thursday, only to be followed by a strong cold front that night and arctic air to end the week. We’re watching a potential for a wintry mix on Friday but the latest models are still in sharp disagreement as to when the chance for rain to the wintry mix could occur. Some models are suggesting the change would happen Friday morning and others suggest it wouldn’t happen until Friday night. Either way, there will be a dramatic drop in temperature on Friday when the cold front moves through.