Used that title because this is a variety of weather notes on this Tuesday morning. First, here is a list of cities and the impact of the current developing storm system.
NASHVILLE
A mix of rain and snow starts Wednesday night. Low near 32. The mixed precipitation continues Thursday morning, but changing to all rain Thursday afternoon with a high about 42. A few snow flurries Thursday night and again Friday night. A cold, dry weekend. Windy on Saturday with a high near 30 with a wind chill 10-13. Low Saturday night 10-15 with a wind chill of 5-10.
EAST TENNESSEE/WEST NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS
Around Bristol, Johnson City and Kingsport, in the NE corner of Tennessee, the best chance of snow will be after midnight Wednesday night. Light accumulations. Moderate accumulation of snow on Thursday. It should be mostly less than 2 inches in the valleys, but in the Great Smoky Mountains and other NE Tennessee mountains, 4 inches of snow possible by Thursday afternoon. This morning the temperature dropped to 8 above zero on Mt. LeConte in Great Smoky Mountain National Park with 3 inches of snow on the ground. There was 1 inch of snow on Newfound Gap.
ASHEVILLE/CHEROKEE, NORTH CAROLINA
Snow starting after midnight Wednesday night with moderate accumulations and a low of 28. Some freezing rain will mix with the snow Thursday morning with a mix of freezing rain, sleet and snow Thursday evening. Snow showers will occur on Saturday with a high of 27. The wind chill will drop as low as 5 below zero Saturday morning.
ATLANTA
Rain starts Wednesday night becoming mixed with some sleet and snow during the evening. A chance of freezing rain and sleet after midnight. Low near freezing. Mostly rain on Thursday, although a slight chance that it could be mixed with some freezing rain Thursday morning.
WASHINGTON, DC
A mix of rain and snow starting on Thursday with a high of 42, changing to all rain Thursday night. A dry weekend with the coldest temperature 15 Monday morning.
USA TEMPERATURE EXTREMES
High yesterday 78 at Camp Pendleton, Oceanside and Oxnard, California. Coldest in the lower 48 this morning 27 below zero at Gunnison, Colorado.
ALASKA STORY–60 BELOW TEMPERATURE AND 83 BELOW ZERO WIND SHIELD!
As bitter cold as we have seen it in a long, long time. It was 53 below this morning at Arctic Village, but it was a bitter 60 below zero at Chandalar Lake. The wiind chill dropped as low as 83 BELOW ZERO at Chandalar Lake. They were reporting moderate ice crystals. That happens when the air gets so bitter cold that it condenses the last little bit of moisture into ice crystals that just float about. It was 47 below in Barrow, 49 below at Nuiqsut and 44 below at Deadhorse.
A COLD MORNING IN ALABAMA
Not nearly as cold as we have seen earlier. Scroll down for an earlier post to see a representative list.
A BIG FIGHT OVER LOW TEMPERATURES
There is a feud going on between International Falls, Minnesota and Fraser, Colorado over who owns the trademark, “Icebox of the Nation.” The Town Manager of International Falls has responded to a law suit filed by Fraser with a countersuit. Fraser officials say their town has used the phrase since 1956, but International Falls claims they have used it since 1948. The law suits asked that city officials prove their claim.
Can you imagine fussing over that? I once visited Fraser and photographed the town and visited in the home with the official coop observers at the time. Took a picture of the instrument shelter. It is quite a place in a deep valley in the Colorado Rockies.
Many years ago, the Chamber of Commerce at Pueblo petitioned the U. S. Weather Bureau headquarters to stop using Fraser at the bottom of the daily Temperature and Precipitation Table that appeared in newspapers across the country. They list the national extremes at the bottom of the long list. Their reason was that it hurt business prospects for the state of Colorado. I wrote a letter to the Denver Post explaining, if that was the case, that Wyoming could complain about Big Piney, Minnesota about International Falls and Arizona about the blistering heat in Yuma.
Life goes on. It is always interesting.
