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Temperatures in the 60’s the last several days make several inches of snow Friday night seem impossible.
News Talk 94.1 Meteorologist Rob Carolan said it is a typical March for Tennessee.
“It’s actually one of my favorite times of the year meteorologically speaking, because we get these wild events where one day you’re spring like, the next day winter arrives and then two days later the cold weather is gone yet again,” Carolan said.
Carolan said two separate bodies of energy converging will cause the snowfall. Carolan said an impressive cold front stretching across the nation will hit moisture from the Gulf of Mexico.
“One along the cold front that’s producing light snow presently from the thumb of Michigan back across Indiana into Illinois to southwest Missouri all the way to eastern New Mexico,” Carolan said. “And then the juicy air is down over the Gulf of Mexico where it is real warm.”
Carolan said the collision will develop low pressure out of the deep south. As a result, the warm air will stay until the storm moves by and pulls cold air from the central US. Carolan said temperatures will get cold enough Friday night that slick road conditions are expected.
“It will become slick especially the hours after midnight and through probably 9-10 o’clock the following morning,” Carolan said.
Carolan said warm air will then flood back into the region Sunday and bring temperatures back to 60-70 degrees.
