Extreme meteorologist Dr. Reed Timmer reported from Nashville on the evening of Jan. 15 as snowfall rates began easing, but snow-covered roads continued causing serious issues.
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00:00 Snow continues here west of Nashville near the Dixon area. I'm along I-40 where
00:05 conditions are absolutely brutal on the highways and that's because there's not
00:09 as much in the way of plows and salts for road treatment and everything is
00:13 just caked in snow and ice. You have a lot of vehicles that are stuck on the
00:17 uphill portions especially those rear-wheel drive vehicles a lot of
00:20 semi trucks that are getting stuck out there as well so a very impactful snow
00:25 event continues and it's kind of the last gasp of the heavier snowfall in the
00:28 downtown Nashville area right now. There is some heavier snowfall rates and
00:32 bigger snowflakes but eventually it's gonna start to subside as that upper
00:36 level energy starts to shift off to the east and that's gonna shift the heavier
00:39 snow east of Nashville from Murfreesboro up to Knoxville and that's where
00:44 probably an additional several inches of snow could fall there as well but
00:48 probably less than an inch now for the Nashville area. Still some snow showers
00:51 will continue on the back end of the system but the damage has been done. The
00:56 roads are incredibly treacherous out here so definitely stay indoors, stay
01:00 off the roads. Very dangerous out there. Vehicles stuck everywhere and it's a
01:04 holiday as well so you don't have as many motorists on the road. If it was a
01:08 regular workday then everybody would be out here stuck and it would just be mass
01:13 chaos out on the roads but hopefully here in the next hour or two we start to
01:17 gradually see a subsiding of the snowfall rates out here in Dixon. It
01:21 definitely is beginning to subside. Looks like about seven to eight inches of snow
01:25 in some of those hardest hit areas where the bandings have persisted since last
01:29 night into this morning. All triggered and all driven by that upper level
01:34 support that jet stream energy aloft. Things should start to clear out in the
01:38 next couple of days but very cold air in place so not any of this is not going to
01:42 be melting anytime soon.
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