The heavy rainfall, estimated between 2 to 4 inches, could lead to excessive runoff, causing flooding of rivers, creeks, and low-lying areas.
It may feel cold, but it's about to get colder in Tennessee. Here's how cold it's expected to get Tuesday night and how to keep your pipes from freezing.
Over the past few days, a blast of arctic air has whipped across the Southeast, bringing with it freezing temperatures and dangerously low wind chills. The East Tennessee region saw single-digit temperatures and sub-zero wind chills beginning the night of Jan. 19, according to the National Weather Service.
The National Weather Service has issued a cold weather advisory for all of Middle Tennessee. Here's what to know about the dangerously cold temperatures.
A sprawling winter storm that is pushing slowly across the United States will bring a risk of severe weather and excessive rainfall to a large part of the south-central United States from Wednesday into Friday. Isolated thunderstorms, flooding rains and damaging winds are all possible in an area between East Texas and western Kentucky.
As Helene's destructive wrath descended on the Southeast, some residents say they never got the warnings they needed to take action.
Amid below-freezing temperatures, preliminary results show TVA hit an all-time power demand record Wednesday morning of 35,319 megawatts — the highest in its 91-year history.
Some of that snow was already on the ground when an arctic air brought record-setting cold to the mountains along the Tennessee-North Carolina state line. The National Weather Service warned night time temperatures would fall below zero in many areas, and wind chills of minus 20 degrees were possible.
Due to the continued low temperatures, many schools around East Tennessee are closed or delayed on Wednesday, Jan 22. The temperatures are expected to be "dangerously cold" and well below 20 degrees across East Tennessee on Wednesday morning, according to the National Weather Service. A cold weather advisory is in effect through 10 a.m.
These arctic temperatures are cold enough to freeze a thick layer of ice over ponds and even some small lakes. It may be tempting to dust off the ice skates and play pond hockey, but ice is never
Although temperatures may seem cold now, this week marks 40 years since the Tennessee’s coldest January temperatures were reached.
Roughly 40 million people from Texas to the Carolinas are under winter weather alerts, as a rare winter storm brings bone-chilling temperatures and potentially historic snowfall to cities unused to harsh cold weather. In Texas, temperatures dropped to below freezing Monday night as winter weather began across the state.