by Steve Norris, Smith County Insider Weather Correspondent
A new Rain system is coming Friday night and Saturday to kick off your weekend, and it is going to usher in some much colder air that’s going to begin a complete pattern change in our weather.
Sunday will be a day of clearing skies but much colder with highs in the 30s and the low temperature by Monday morning may be around 19 degrees. It will remain cold through Tuesday with a slow warming Trend at midweek.
February is looking like a colder month so I think it is going to start feeling more like winter than what we had in January.
There were many reports of wind damage across the area last Saturday with that line of storms but we are lucky that it was not a tornado producing system in Tennessee like it was in Alabama.
We are coming up on what is typically the coldest time of the year from mid-January to early February, so I thought I would review some of the coldest temperatures on record. Who can forget January 21st 1985 when the temperature dropped to 17 below in Nashville, 28 below zero was recorded in Woodbury, and minus 24 in Smithville. Those were the coldest temperatures ever recorded in Middle Tennessee.
The state record is 32 below at Mountain City in 1917 and the coldest ever in the U.S. was 70 below at Rogers Pass, Montana.
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Steve Norris got his first job at 18 years old doing radio weather. Steve does forecasts for several radio stations and newspapers, and he serves as a severe weather meteorologist for some city governments in the Middle Tennessee area. Steve first became interested in weather when his grandfather bought him a thermometer when he was 10 years old. He has been loving weather for over 40 years.
If you need weather data or have any weather-related questions or comments, you can reach Steve Norris anytime at weather1@charter.net.
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