SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Issue Date: 1043 PM CST FRI DEC 4 2009
Expiration: 400 AM CST SAT DEC 05 2009
...A SNOW ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU
FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO NOON CST SATURDAY...
SOME OF THE COLDEST AIR OF THE SEASON THUS FAR IS EXPECTED TO
MOVE INTO MIDDLE TENNESSEE THIS WEEKEND...ALONG WITH A CHANCE
FOR SNOW OVER MAINLY SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PARTS OF THE AREA.
A COLD AIR MASS...OUT OF WESTERN CANADA...WILL OVERSPREAD THE
MID STATE...AND PRODUCE TEMPERATURES SOME 10 TO 15 DEGREES
BELOW NORMAL. MEANWHILE...A LOW PRESSURE AREA HAS DEVELOPED
ACROSS THE NORTH CENTRAL GULF COASTAL REGION...AND WILL TRACK
GENERALLY EAST NORTHEAST...TO JUST OFF THE GEORGIA COAST BY EARLY
SATURDAY MORNING. THESE TWO WEATHER EVENTS WILL COMBINE TO PRODUCE
THE LIKELIHOOD FOR AN ACCUMULATING SNOW ALONG THE CUMBERLAND
PLATEAU AFTER MIDNIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING...AND THUS THE
THE CREATION OF POSSIBLE TRAVEL PROBLEMS. ACCUMULATIONS BETWEEN
ONE TO ISOLATED THREE INCH AMOUNTS ARE POSSIBLE. IN OTHER
LOCATIONS ACROSS THE MID STATE...A DUSTING OF SNOW ALONG AND EAST
OF INTERSTATE 65 TO JUST LESS THAN ONE INCH ACROSS COUNTIES JUST
WEST OF THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU IS ALSO POSSIBLE.
SATURDAY MORNING LOWS ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN THE MIDDLE TO UPPER
20S...SO ANY SNOW THAT FALLS SHOULD STICK...ESPECIALLY ON GRASSY
AREAS AND ROOFTOPS. SOME TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES COULD ALSO DEVELOP
ALONG THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU...AND MOTORISTS PLANNING TO CROSS THE
PLATEAU AFTER MIDNIGHT THROUGH MUCH OF SATURDAY SHOULD EXERCISE
CAUTION.
AS CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE CONTINUES TO HOLD THE MID STATE IN ITS
FRIGID GRIP SATURDAY NIGHT...EXPECT LOW TEMPERATURES BY SUNRISE
SUNDAY MORNING TO BOTTOM OUT IN THE TEENS ALONG THE CUMBERLAND
PLATEAU...AND IN THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 20S ELSEWHERE.
LAST YEAR THE FIRST MEASURABLE SNOW FELL IN NASHVILLE ON DECEMBER
11TH WHEN 1.0 INCHES WAS MEASURED. SNOWFALL IN JANUARY TOTALED
ONLY 0.4 INCHES AT THE NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...ONLY A
TRACE FELL IN FEBRUARY...WITH 0.3 INCHES FALLING IN MARCH. THE
TOTAL SNOWFALL LAST WINTER WAS 1.7 INCHES.
THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN AROUND THIS AREA FOR A WHILE REMEMBER THE SNOWS
OF THE 1960`S. THE WINTER OF 1959 AND 1960 WAS THE SNOWIEST ON
RECORD IN NASHVILLE WITH 38.5 INCHES.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
Issue Date: 433 PM CST FRI DEC 4 2009
Expiration: 600 AM CST SAT DEC 05 2009
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE .
.DAY ONE...TONIGHT...
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TO NOON
SATURDAY FOR THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU. A STORM SYSTEM WILL DEVELOP
OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO AND MOVE NORTHEAST...BRINGING LIGHT SNOW
TO PARTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. MOST OF THE
SNOW WILL FALL EAST OF I 65. TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS WILL RANGE FROM
A DUSTING NEAR I 65...TO 1 TO 3 INCHES OVER THE PLATEAU.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...
THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY WILL CONTINUE FOR THE PLATEAU UNTIL
NOON SATURDAY. THE PLATEAU WILL HAVE SNOW TOTALS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES.
MORE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET AT WEATHER.GOV OR
BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO.
.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
SPOTTERS AND LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ARE ENCOURAGED
TO REPORT ANY SNOW ACCUMULATIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
IN NASHVILLE.
|
|
|
