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Snow arrives in Middle Tennessee, with hazardous road conditions expected Thursday and Friday

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Tony GonzalezWPLN News
Joggers trek through heavy snowfall Thursday morning in East Nashville. The city is expecting 3 inches of accumulation or more.
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A cold front is arriving in Middle Tennessee, and it’s bringing snow and frigid temperatures.

Snow arrived by 8 a.m. in Nashville on Thursday. Areas further south, like Columbia and Tullahoma, will likely get sleet that will make roads icy, and snow will follow closely behind, with 1 to 3 inches expected south of Interstate 40. The closer you are to Kentucky, the more snow is likely to accumulate — up to 5 inches in some places.

Not all midstate school districts are back from the holiday break, but of those that are, most have cancelled classes today due to the weather. The governor has closed state offices. Many flights out of Nashville are cancelled, as well.

Scott Unger with the National Weather Service says everything left over on the roads will then freeze overnight.

“That’s why we’re going to see quite a few travel issues come Friday morning,” Unger says, “with temperatures in the teens and a lot of single digits across the central portion of the state between Nashville and Knoxville.”

Tennessee Department of Transportation is pre-treating state routes and interstates in anticipation of the weather event, and crews have prepared snowplows and brine trucks. Salt supplies were replenished in every county across the state.

Tennessee’s Emergency Management Agency recommends that residents compile an emergency kit for winter weather, including rock salt, snow shovels, heating fuel, blankets, and a radio.

The National Weather Service says that warm weather to melt the ice and snow isn’t expected until Saturday.

Last updated Thursday at 8:45 a.m. 

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Paige Pfleger, Criminal Justice Reporter

Paige Pfleger covers criminal justice for WPLN News. She has investigated guns and juvenile justice as a fellow with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network, and her investigation into domestic violence and firearms dispossession won a regional Edward R. Murrow award and was a finalist for an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and a Livingston Award. She previously covered criminal justice and addiction in Ohio and was named the state's reporter of the year by the Associated Press. Her work has appeared nationally on NPR, The Washington Post, Marketplace, and PRI's The World, and she has worked in the newsrooms of The Tennessean, Michigan Radio, WHYY, Vox and NPR headquarters in DC.

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