Thursday Night Forecast Update for Friday, January 23rd

While the forecast still seems to point to mainly rain falling tomorrow, forecast snow totals are slightly higher than I indicated on WBBJ 7 Eyewitness News in our early evening newscasts.

The area of low pressure located farther south of us near New Orleans is slowly moving east-northeast still, but has arrived at this location a little earlier than originally expected. It still means that we should start off with mainly rain in West Tennessee tomorrow morning with temperatures above freezing. However, temperatures will be cool enough to allow rain to mix with snow in northwest Tennessee for the start of our Friday.

 

The chance for rain will gradually increase throughout the morning and into the early afternoon before dropping off, especially after sunset. Chances for snow to mix in with rain will increase throughout the morning and afternoon but are never significant. Most of the precipitation is still expected to be rain south of I-40 throughout the morning but along and north of the interstate is where snow mixing in with rain could cause light accumulations on lawns and tree branches.

This is what we're currently expecting for snowfall accumulations on GRASS tomorrow. Roads will still just be wet, and shouldn't become icy with ground temperatures still above 40ºF across most of West Tennessee. The bulk of sticking snow is anticipated to accumulate along and north of I-40 with parts of Henry, Benton, and Carroll counties possibly getting up to an inch of snow.

After sunset tomorrow night, most of the precipitation should come to an end or be very light as low pressure continues to move to the north and east off into the Atlantic Ocean of the coast of the Carolinas. The weekend looks great with warmer weather, so any snow that does stick should melt quickly. Just exercise caution when traveling Friday night around West Tennessee as bridges, especially, could be slippery in a few spots with temperatures dropping below freezing after midnight.