Weather Facts for Nashville

[Ron_Jarrell]

Todays discussion contained some pretty nice facts about winter weather in Nashville:

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1029 AM CDT WED OCT 4 2006

.UPDATE...
TEMPS SHOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM GETTING INTO THE MID 80S THIS AFTERNOON
WITH SEVERAL LOCATIONS REACHING INTO THE UPPER 80S. TEMPS SHOULD FALL
WELL SHORT OF ANY RECORDS FOR THIS DATE.

A FRONTAL SYSTEM IS POISED TO DROP SOUTH FROM THE GREAT LAKES REGION
TONIGHT BRINGING AN END TO THE RECENT INDIAN SUMMER. THERE IS A
CHANCE FOR SHOWERS/TSTMS TONIGHT...MAINLY AFTER MIDNIGHT...AND
EARLY THURSDAY WITH THE BEST CHANCE OVER THE NORTH HALF AND PLATEAU.
STILL SCATTERED SHOWERS/TSTMS THURSDAY AFTERNOON BUT MORE
CONCENTRATED EASTERN AREAS AND PLATEAU.

THE LATEST IN THE YEAR THAT WE HAVE RECORDED A 90 DEGREE TEMPERATURE
IN NASHVILLE IS OCTOBER 10TH IN 1980. LAST YEAR WE HAD 89 ON
OCTOBER 19TH WHICH BROKE THE RECORD FOR THE DATE. IN CONTRAST THE
EARLIEST FREEZE ON RECORD OCCURRED ON OCTOBER 2ND 1984 WHEN THE
TEMPERATURE FELL TO 32 DEGREES. IT'S A LITTLE TOO WARM TO TALK ABOUT
SNOW BUT THE EARLIEST SNOWFALL IN NASHVILLE OCCURRED ON OCTOBER
6TH 1952 WHEN A TRACE FELL. LAST WINTER WE MANAGED TO GET 3.1 INCHES
OF SNOWFALL HERE AT THE NWS OFFICE WHILE THE NASHVILLE AIRPORT HAD
1.7 INCHES. NASHVILLE'S SNOWFALL LAST WINTER WAS WELL BELOW THE NORMAL
OF 9.2 INCHES.

[Snowman]

Lets hope we can at least see average snowfall this year, hopefully more.

[Thundersnow]

Snowfall has been below average for most of the last twenty years, I think.

You have to hope that sooner or later the law of averages will catch up.