This morning much colder air will continue surging into the area and snow will also continue to develop and move across the mid-state.

Temperatures will remain cold through the day with readings in the 20s over most of the area and strong gusty winds will make it feel even colder.

Only light snow accumulations are expected early this morning.

However snow is expected to increase as the day wears on and continue into the night.

Accumulations of snow by sunrise Monday are expected to be between one and two inches at most locations but possibly as high as three inches in areas just west of the Cumberland Plateau.

Hazardous driving conditions will likely develop.

Another low-pressure system will come through late Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. It may produce a wintry mix before temperatures warm sufficiently to turn the precipitation to all rain by Wednesday afternoon.

Locked into unusually cold weather

If you were thinking the weather has been unusually cold over the last week or so you are right.

In fact the cold weather during the first 10 days of the month made it the eighth coldest start to the month of December on record in Nashville and the coldest start to December since 1942.

Temperatures are averaging 10 degrees below normal so far this month. And with another blast of frigid air now on our doorstep, it looks like our time in the deep freeze is not yet over.

During the last decade very little snow has fallen during the month of December. In fact the last time measurable snow fell in Nashville during the month of December was in 2008 when one inch was measured.

Before that in 2000 when 2.6 inches fell.

However there have been Decembers with heavy snowfalls. The most snow ever in December was 13.2 inches in 1963 followed by 1917 with 10.5 inches and 1916 with 10.0 inches.