A winter Sunday that felt like spring tied a 110-year-old Chattanooga record.
Temperatures reached 73 degrees, matching the 1907 high and continuing an unseasonably warm stretch in Southeast Tennessee even as the Midwest grappled with an ice storm.
“That front has almost become stationary,” National Weather Service meteorologist Andrew Pritchett said of the wintry weather to the north. “We’re on the good side, so to speak, and we’re on the outside looking in at what’s going.”
The National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center forecast a warmer-than-usual winter for the area, and the warmth wave is expected to last for at least another 10 days, according to Pritchett.
Today’s high temperature could flirt with another record.