by Steve Norris, Smith County Insider Weather Correspondent
The rain and storms will finally get out of here by Friday and we will begin to get a clearing Trend but it will be much cooler with highs only in the upper 40s to near 50 Friday afternoon. I expect us to get into the thirties and many areas Saturday and Sunday morning and Scattered Frost will be possible. The weekend is looking dry and mostly sunny with high temperatures climbing back above 60 degrees.
Spring begins this Saturday morning March 20th at 4:37 a.m. Central Time. The day and night will be of almost equal length of 12 hours as the sun will be directly over the equator. On the first day of spring and the first day of autumn, the sun sets directly in the west and rises directly in the east. The days will now get longer until the 4th of July. All of the planets have an equinox but the one on Saturn only comes around every 15 years.
This past weekend marked the 28th anniversary of the blizzard of 1993 which brought record amounts of snow officially totaling 26 inches in Jamestown and 20.5 inches to Crossville. Mount Leconte in the Smokies measured 56 inches of snow from the blizzard with drifts to 14 feet. Over a foot fell as far south as Birmingham Alabama with 4 inches in the Florida Panhandle. Thunder and lightning accompanied the blizzard in many areas of Tennessee and I have only seen this three times in my 40-year meteorological career. You are welcome to drop me an email anytime with questions or comments to weather1@charter.net
