The weekend gets off to a pretty good start but then things go downhill with a chance of rain developing Sunday afternoon — and then we bring the S word into the forecast for the first time this year with snow mixing in Sunday night and Monday. The high temperature on Monday afternoon will probably not get out of the 30s and drop to near 22 degrees by Tuesday morning. If you have any questions about this weather system or any other you can always reach me at weather1@charter.net.

Next week is looking pretty chilly with the highest temperatures later in the week in the mid to upper 40s.

Siberia and some of the countries near Russia have been seeing lots of snowfall this early in the season and this is usually an indicator of an increase of cold and snowy weather for the United States later in the winter so we shall see.

This week’s weather question and fact: What is the most snow to ever fall in Tennessee in 24 hours? On March 14, 1993 during the blizzard, 30 inches of snow fell on Mount LeConte in the Smokies.