. . . several times in fact, people have asked for the latest forecast for Gatlinburg and the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. So, here we go:
Bitter cold tonight with low temperatures from 5 above to 10 below zero with the colder temperatures in the high country. The wind chill will be as low as 10 to 15 below zero. No precipitation expected tonight.
Friday will be sunny, but very cold with high temperatures 8 to 12 and morning wind chills around minus 15. For Saturday, the low should be zero to 5 above and a high only near freezing.
The weather changes on Sunday. Clouds move in with a chance of some snow showers. (Not a big snow storm.) Highs about 25 in the mountains and 30s elsewhere. Still a few snow showers around on Monday and colder again. Lows 10 to 24 and highs in the 20s and 30s.
TODAY’S DATA
On Mt. LeConte, the high yesterday was 27 and low this morningi 4 with 2 inches of old snow still on the ground. Low this morning in Gatlinburg was 19, Cades Cove 18, and on Newfound Gap 20 with 1 inch of snow on the ground. Tomorrow morning’s low temperatures will be much colder than that. Might even see some minus 10 on Mt. LeConte.
(We will have a Alabama update in a little while. No big changes.)
