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Cold and Dry For Now, but More Active by Next Weekend?

It’s been quite an active few days, with the snow and rain making for a slushy wintry muck across the area over the last 48 hours. All things considered, we’ve certainly seen worse systems this time of year, though some limited impacts did occur across the area. Fortunately with those highs above freezing today, we melted off a lot of that snow, but with the freezing temps tonight and the still cold weather lingering, those shaded areas probably won’t totally shake those patchy snow areas off for a while yet.

While still above freezing, we’ll probably on the whole end up several degrees cooler tomorrow for our highs as compared to today, but otherwise the day looks decent – the reason we’re cooling down a bit is due to a quick hitter cold front that brings a bit of cloud cover, and winds back out of the north, reinforcing that cold air; really, if nothing else, this is just a sign of the times, because this is the sort of pattern we’ll hold into the first part of the workweek.

We’re unlikely to get a sustained warmup for a while, too. CPC trends, which look out into the extended term (1-2 weeks out) suggest that basically ALL of the United States will be under the influence of well-below average temperatures as we continue through our January. The only warming trend that we have to look forward to locally is towards the end of the week and into next weekend, but notably this trend is relatively brief, beginning in earnest Thursday and lingering through Saturday. After that, indications as of now suggest that a cold front will bring us right back down.

That cold front, of course, may very well be our next rain-maker with precipitation chances continuing to rise as we look forward. We can’t give you too many specifics on that quite just yet, but signals are there for a good little push of rain with those temperatures in the mid to upper 50s by Saturday, so we’ll keep an eye on that throughout the Week, which itself looks really quite nice… just keep that coat on hand.

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Chase Wilson
Meteorologist & Radar Expert at Tennessee Valley Weather