Put away the T-shirts and short pants – winter is returning to the metro area with a vengeance this weekend and for part of next week.
A major winter storm is headed east and is expected to slam the Interstate 95 corridor from Washington, D.C., up to Boston this weekend with one of the Top 10 worst March storms, and the Chattanooga metro area will be right along the southern edge of the storm.
Temperatures
Saturday: High 50, low 33 Sunday: High 50, low 34 Monday: High 49, low 37 Tuesday: High 49, low 28
The latest word from the National Weather Service is that East Tennessee could see three to six inches of snow in the mountains in the Knoxville-Bristol area, with sleet and some snow potentially a problem for the Chattanooga area, starting Saturday night and extending into Sunday morning.
Exactly how far south the storm will reach won’t be known until Saturday.