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Weekend Ice, Snow Stayed Mostly in Tennessee

Weekend Ice, Snow Stayed Mostly in Tennessee
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By West Kentucky Star Staff
Dec. 10, 2018 | PADUCAH
By West Kentucky Star Staff Dec. 10, 2018 | 10:56 AM | PADUCAH
Just as the National Weather Service said it would, Saturday and Sunday's winter weather tracked right along the Kentucky/Tennessee border, until it really unloaded on east Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina.

Most of Saturday's activity involved a light glaze of ice across the Missouri Bootheel, and a more pronounced freezing rain in northwest Tennessee, enough to break down tree branches in Weakley and Gibson counties.

By late Saturday night, heavy freezing rain had crossed over the border into Murray, and Sunday morning an eighth of an inch of ice was reported. Mayfield also picked up about a tenth of an inch of ice by Sunday, along with observations of icing in southern Graves, Marshall, Fulton and Hickman counties. However, there was a sharp cutoff of precipitation to the north.

In middle Tennessee, a wintry mix on Monday morning added to weekend snow on the ground to close many county school systems. 

By the time the southern storm reached the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee, a foot of snow and accompanying ice knocked out power for 10,000 homes. In North Carolina, half a million customers lost power under up to two feet of snow.

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