Good evening, folks. We have a potent cold front moving in here tonight with a nice line of showers and thunderstorms along it. The real story is what comes behind it with multiple hard freezes and snow chances.

The storms this evening can be strong or locally severe across the west and some of that may sneak across the southern half of the state…

Cold air comes in behind this, but Friday’s weather looks pretty good with sun and 40s.

The snow system zipping across the Tennessee Valley later Saturday into Saturday night will target southern Kentucky with some snow. The bulk of the action will fall in Tennessee, but the chance to see some light snow…

One of the scenarios I mentioned a few days for the cold air to be so strong it crushed the storm south. That’s the case this weekend with hard freezes likely.

I also talked about the next system moving in right behind that. This one has a chance to dig and form a major eastern US winter storm and is the one that’s had me intrigued for a while now.

The European Model…

Look at the crazy cold engulfing the region as this storm cranks up…

The GFS goes absolutely nuts with this system…

Again… I am very intrigued by this setup for early next week.

For all the green thumbs… forget about it. There’s not a whole lot you can do over the next week. This isn’t going to be a night or two of a hard freeze, it’s going to be about every night. Lows can drop deep into the teens on more than one occasion.

Have a great evening and take care.