One-two Punch Of Wintry Weather
Forecast:
Tonight: Rain/Freezing Rain Possible |Low: 32| NW 5-10
Tomorrow: Cloudy, AM Rain/Freezing Rain, PM Shower Ch.|High: 38| N 5-10
Wintry weirdness overnight tonight… #storm5alert tonight for slick roads due to Scat’d freezing rain/sleet. @NC5_LelanStatom has the latest coming up on @nc5
— Bree Sunshine Smith (@NC5_BreeSmith) January 30, 2023
Here’s the deets on sleet vs frz rain pic.twitter.com/fkQck5z0sZ
In Depth:
A one-two wintry punch looks to impact parts of the mid-state over the next two nights. This won't be a snowy wintry wonderland, but instead it'll be a slushy icy set-up with some spots getting more significant impacts than others.
Round one moves in late Monday night and winds down shortly after sunrise Tuesday. It'll bring primarily freezing rain to areas West and Northwest of Nashville, with a glaze of up to .20" of freezing rain/sleet accumulations.
Tuesday afternoon will be a brief break, with temperatures climbing above freezing during the afternoon. This will melt whatever ice accumulates late Monday. The break doesn't last long; round two moves in as early as the afternoon commute Tuesday and lasts through lunchtime Wednesday. A mixture of sleet (ice pellets), freezing rain (rain that forms a glaze of ice), wet snowflakes, and good ol' fashioned cold raindrops will fall from late Tuesday through midday Wednesday.
Thursday will bring around 1/2" of rain and sunshine will finally return by Friday.
