Seven-year-old Emma Davis pauses to wait on her grandmother, Shirley Hart, who was pushing Emma’s brother Camden in a carriage Friday at the North Chickamauga Creek Gorge State Natural Area. The family brought a picnic lunch to the park.Bundled up in hooded sweatshirts as they walked through the wind at Coolidge Park on Sunday, Jay and Khrista Johnson had little to complain about.
“I’m loving the weather,” said Jay Johnson, 48. “This is true fall weather.”
Many areas of the United States are preparing for the effects of “Frankenstorm,” the name forecasters have coined for the monster combination of Hurricane Sandy and winter storms that may hit the East Coast today.
But the weather story of the week for Chattanooga will be the wind, a National Weather Service meteorologist said.
In Tennessee, wind chills may have temperatures feeling like the upper 20s in some areas, according to Jessica Winton with the National Weather Service in Morristown, Tenn. On Sunday, the National Weather Service issued a freeze warning for Bledsoe, Marion, Monroe, Polk and Sequatchie counties.