Good Friday, everyone. We have a major pattern change blowing into town this weekend as March takes on a heart of winter look and feel for much of the country. This pattern will be multiple hard freezes to go along with a few snow chances over the next week.

Let’s begin with our Friday then look ahead.

Morning showers scoot away with sunny skies returning. Winds will be gusty as colder air moves in with highs only in the 40s.

Even colder air moves in this weekend as a winter weather maker sweeps eastward across the Tennessee Valley. This means the best snow chance stays in Tennessee with the potential for some light snows across the southern half of Kentucky.

Here’s the new NAM snow map…

That shows accumulating snow into northern sections of Alabama, Georgia and into the Carolinas. The GFS also shows snow into the south…

Again, the farther north you are in Kentucky, the better the chance of seeing nothing. The farther south, the better the chance of picking up on some light accumulations.

From there, we turn out attention toward a big time dip in the jet stream across the east…

The models all develop a massive east coast winter storm and show Kentucky potentially getting in on some of the outside action…

Lows behind that storm can get absolutely frigid. The GFS by Wednesday morning…

As someone who wants spring to go ahead and take off, I do not approve of this message. 🙂

Updates later today. Make it a great Friday and take care.