Pamela Cox, owner of the Wood Shack on Dayton Boulevard, cuts wood Thursday afternoon. Temperatures in the single digits are forecast for early next week in the Chattanooga area.THE OUTLOOK: LOW, AND MAYBE SNOWToday: High 33, Low 19 // clearSaturday: High 45, Low 31 // partly cloudySunday: High 46, Low 22 // 70 percent chance of rain or snowMonday: High 28, Low 9 // 60 percent chance of snowSource: National Weather Service
Jack Frost may not be pummelling the Chattanooga area as hard as he is New York and New England – but temperatures in the Scenic City and surrounding region are well below average and worse is coming, forecasters say.
“By [Friday] morning, your fellow Chattanoogans will wake up to a low of 18 degrees. And they’ll only see a high of 33 degrees,” National Weather Service forecaster Derek Eisentrout said. He works in the weather service’s Morristown, Tenn., office.
Factor in blustery winds expected to accompany the front, and residents will feel like it is 10 degrees outside — even colder at higher elevations, Eisentrout said.
But today’s cold front is really just the chilly left hook before the frigid haymaker.