NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — There have been quite a few chilly days so far this fall and winter, but we haven’t gotten close to breaking any records for the coldest day ever recorded in Nashville.
Taking a trip down memory lane, the coldest temperature ever recorded in Nashville was –17 degrees in 1985 at the end of January. The coldest high temperature of a day in Music city took place on January 2 in 1918 when temperatures only reached 2 degrees. With both of these cold days feeling like just memories of the past, there have still been extremely cold days in the last few years.
The last time Nashville got colder than 0 degrees was on Dec. 23, 2022 when temperatures dropped to –1 degree. Thankfully, the longest stretch of days below freezing was 129 years ago when 12 days from Feb. 4 to Feb. 15, temperatures couldn’t get above 32 degrees. A whole 12 days!
Now, this winter the CPC is predicting that temperatures will actually be above average as we continue in a La Nina weather pattern.
However, meteorologist Alex Libby gathered some data from other winters when Nashville was in La Nina and based on the past it looks like temperatures will be slightly above normal, precipitation will be average, and snowfall could be above average.
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