BASED ON 6 O’CLOCK OBSERVATIONS
The front extends from near Cincinnati across NW Tennessee, approaching Nashville and also closing in on Jackson and Memphis in West Tennessee and then into Central Arkansas.
Not moving real fast but you will know when it passes.Should enter NW Alabama in about three hours.
At 6 pm, it was 44 in Nashville and 34 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
SPOT REPORTS AT 6 PM
11 in Kansas City
16 St. Louis, snow flurries, wind chill +2
Zero Omaha, wind chill -17
-3 Des Moines, gusts to 25, wind chill -22
7 Chicago, light snow, wind chill -14
One of the coldest temperatures in the USA this morning, possibly the very lowest was 48 below at Babbitt, Minesota
The wind chill is going to be a very important factor in this cold air outbreak. Care should be taken to dress in layers and plenty of clothes.
Studies have shown that a wind chill of -70 can freeze exposed human skin in about 30 seconds. Of course we will not have numbers anywhere near that low but it does show the danger.
