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Overnight snow, plunging temperatures in Chattanooga area to mark 29th anniversary of blizzard of ’93

Staff Photo by Matt Hamilton / James Wimpee checks the controls on a truck after a salt spreader was attached at the Public Works Department on East 11th Street on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2022.
Staff Photo by Matt Hamilton / James Wimpee checks the controls on a truck after a salt spreader was attached at the Public Works Department on East 11th Street on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2022. Staff Photo by Matt Hamilton / James Wimpee checks the controls on a truck after a salt spreader was attached at the Public Works Department on East 11th Street on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2022.

By Lisa Denton 4 min read

It’s no blizzard of ’93, but a winter storm is expected to drop high temperatures by 30 degrees, deliver 1 to 3 inches of snow in the Tennessee Valley overnight and produce gusty winds Saturday.

[READ MORE: A timeline of the ‘Storm of the Century’ 25 years later]

“Welcome to March,” meteorologist Cedric Haynes said Friday during a midday newscast on WRCB Local 3 News, comparing the weekend forecast to a “roller-coaster ride.”

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for midnight Friday to 10 a.m. Saturday, Eastern time. Advisories affect portions of Middle and East Tennessee, northern Alabama and Northwest Georgia.

Ellis Smith, director of special projects for the city of Chattanooga, said municipal road crews are on alert, but pretreating roadways may not be practical if, as forecast, the precipitation transitions to snow from rain, which would dilute or wash away the brine solution.