Staying Mild Through Thursday, Blast of Cold Returns on Friday!

WBBJ 7 Forecast Update

3 hours ago

Joel Barnes,

WBBJ 7 Forecast Update:

We fell down to 3° a little before midnight last night, breaking the low temperature record on Monday of 7°, set back in 1978. Southerly winds warmed us up to around 15° by sunrise and they continued to help us get above freezing into the mid 30s today in Jackson. A weak front is going to move in and stall out Wednesday morning and that will allow some patchy fog to develop early tomorrow. Highs will reach the mid 30s on Wednesday and up near 40° on Thursday continuing to melt the snow and improve the roadways. The front will push to the south of us by Friday morning and another cold blast will set in for the weekend. Highs may only hit 20° on Saturday and single digit lows are expected both mornings this weekend. Catch the latest forecast information and more on the next system coming in during the middle of next week and what it might be bringing our way; coming up right here.

Here are some of the snow, ice and sleet reports the National Weather Service in Memphis has received from its Storm Spotter Network. I am sure some people have different numbers, some lower and some higher as far as ice and snow totals. Plus I am sure some people had trouble determining what was sleet and what was snow when they took their measurements.

NWS REPORTS OF ICE:

NWS REPORTS OF SNOW:

Here’s our forecast transparency post from the winter event! We just got the official reports from the National Weather Service office in Memphis. Overall I think the 7 Storm Team did pretty well with our forecast from the event. Looks like there was a little less snow in Henry county than we forecast, and no ice reported along the Mississippi River north of Lauderdale county, but everyone else pretty much fell into our forecast zones. To be honest, with as difficult as this storm was to forecast, I was not expecting us to do this well. The forecast would have been better if we drew our parameter zones more at a 45 degree angle instead of at a 30 degree one. The warm nose pushed in faster and pushed further north than expected. I hope to NOT say warm nose again in 2026.

May be an image of map, snowplow and text that says 'STORM DWEATHER TEAM WEATHER wbbjtv.com STORM TEM 7 FORECAST EARLY SATURDAY AM THROUGH SUNDAY PM TOTAL SNOW/SLEET 6-10" TOTAL ICE 0.10-0.25" Union City City Tiptonville Martin Paris Dyersburg Trenton Ripley Huntilngdon Gamden Alamo TOTAL SNOW/SLEET 3-6" TOTAL ICE 0.25-0.50" ackson Lexington Parsons Henderson Bolivar Somerville Memphis Selmer Savannah TOTAL SNOW/SLEET 1-3" TOTAL ICE 0.50-1.00"'

We warmed up a bit on Tuesday because the winds returned to the southwest. With all the snow and ice on the ground, temperatures only warmed up a bit above freezing. Highs will reach the low 30s and Tuesday night lows will down to the mid teens. We did see a sunny day again on Tuesday helping to melt some of the ice and snow. Cold weather alerts went all the way down to south Florida as well as the Mexico border. Locally, our Extreme Cold Warning expired at noon on Tuesday. A weak and dry front will slide through on Wednesday and stall out, but a more potent blast of cold air is coming in early on Friday. Expect more melting snow and ice the next couple of days but many roads will remain snow packed through the weekend in the backcountry.

May be an image of map and text that says 'STORMTEAM WEATHER wbbjtv.con 48 HOUR REGIONAL FORECAST Wednesday 4:10 AM Omaha จอดง Chicago Cleveland Kansas City weak front is going to move in and stall out Wichita Indianapolis Louis CHILLY Cincinnati Bowling Green Springtield Oklahoma City Wednesday morning and that will allow Jackson Knoxville Little Rock Atlanta STORMTEAM WEATHER STORM TEAM 7 WEATHER FUTURECAST 33° 35° 36° 39° some patchy fog to develop early tomorrow. Highs will reach the mid 30s on Wednesday and up near 40 on Thursday continuing to melt the snow and improve the roadways. 39° 40° 40° 39° 34° 36° 35° Selmer 35° Savenanh 41°'

The next front is coming by on Wednesday but it looks like a dry front and it will struggle to push through West Tennessee. Temperatures will not fall down much at all but we will see more clouds on Wednesday than we saw on Monday or Tuesday. Highs will remain in the mid 30s on Wednesday and will make it up near 40° on Thursday. As the front moves in late Thursday night or Friday morning, highs will struggle to hit 30° on Friday. Friday night lows will not be too bad and we should fall down to around 20°, but high this weekend will not warm up much at all.

May be an image of map and text that says 'STORM WEATHER wbbjtv.com EXTENDED FUTURECAST PM HAN MIXED SNOW 13° 14° 14° Trertee Huslingdon Camdes 16° 14° Lexiagon The front will push to the south of us by Friday morning and another cold blast will set 14° Parsons 17° 15° Semerile 15° 16° Salhar 16° Savさnsah 19° STORM WEATHER wbbjtv.com 48 HOUR REGIONAL FORECAST Thursday 4:00 RAIN MIXED Omaha SNOW in for the weekend. Highs may only hit 20° on Saturday and single digit lows are Davenport Colby Cleveland Kansas City Wichita Springfield Indianapolis COLD Louis Joplin Tulsa Charleston Louisville Oklahoma City both mornings this sock Jackson Chattanooga weekend.'

THIS WEEKEND:

Highs on Saturday will only make it up to around 20° with a wind chill in the low single digits at times. We will see partly cloudy skies and possibly some clearing Saturday evening into Saturday night. Another cold air advisory could be issued depending on the upcoming wind speeds this weekend. The winds will be blustery on Saturday and come out of the north between 10-20 MPH. Saturday night lows will drop into the single digits with some of us falling down close to 0°. The winds will weaken on Sunday and we should see more sunshine, this will warm us back up to around 30°. Sunday night lows will be mild and fall down to the upper teens as a southwest breeze is expected to return late Sunday and stick around into the middle of next week. The next system is coming in the middle of next week and as of now, it looks like a rainmaker for us here in West Tennessee but areas up north near the Kentucky border cannot rule out a wintry mix showing up.