Nashville, Tennesee, obtained greater than a 12 months’s value of snow in solely in the future when a winter storm handed via the area on Monday.

An arctic blast introduced frigid temperatures, bone-chilling winds and heavy snow to a lot of the US over the weekend and on Monday. Nashville residents woke as much as a thick blanket of snow and sure extra to return later this week.

“Nashville’s official snowfall accumulation was 7.6″ …” the Nationwide Climate Service (NWS) workplace in Nashville posted on X, previously Twitter, on Tuesday. “Of that complete, 6.3″ occurred yesterday, breaking the every day snowfall report for January 15. Regular annual snowfall is 4.7″, so we obtained greater than a whole winter’s value of snow in only one occasion.”

NWS meteorologist Cory Mueller advised Newsweek that though the snow has stopped falling, a weak system is forecast to provide a light-weight dusting of snow in a single day on Thursday.

It was the primary snowfall of the season. Final 12 months, Nashville solely obtained 1.2 inches of snow. January is town’s snowiest month, producing on common 2 inches of snow.

Though the snow has moved on, chilly climate persists within the space. Nashville’s NWS workplace warned on X that there was a excessive chance of subzero temperatures in a single day on Tuesday within the south and east of Nashville. The town will stay below a wind chill advisory till Wednesday morning.

“For the Wind Chill Advisory, very chilly wind chills anticipated,” the NWS advisory mentioned. “Wind chills as little as 15 under zero this morning and once more tonight.”

The advisory urged motorists to plan for slippery highway circumstances and warned individuals of the risks that accompanied the extreme chilly.

“The chilly wind chills may end in hypothermia if precautions usually are not taken,” the advisory mentioned. “Use warning whereas touring exterior. Put on applicable clothes, a hat, and gloves.”

AccuWeather senior meteorologist Tom Kines beforehand advised Newsweek that he anticipated as much as 60 percent of the United States might be lined with snow on the similar time due to the flurry of storms that impacted the nation.

Along with Tennessee, a number of Midwestern states, together with jap Iowa, northern Illinois, and southern Wisconsin, noticed as much as 10 inches of snowfall on Friday night in a winter storm so big that it could be seen from space.

The storm additionally brought measurable snowfall to New York City on Monday night time, which is the Huge Apple‘s first snowfall of greater than an inch in over 700 days.