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Now onto the latest weather update:

A pretty cold air mass on the backside of a robust cold front has made its way as far south as the Gulf of Mexico today. This air mass promises to bring freezing temperatures as far south as the I-10 corridor from southeastern Louisiana through southern Mississippi, southern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle tonight. Freezing temperatures will also push as far south as parts of north-central Florida tonight. A freeze this far south this early in the season is pretty unusual and because of this, numerous record low temperatures will be tied or broken by Tuesday morning.

If that wasn’t enough, this cold air mass is bringing accumulating snow to areas of the Smoky Mountains, the Ohio Valley and parts of the central Appalachian Mountains. Lake effect snow is also occurring in lower Michigan, northern Indiana, northeastern Ohio, northwestern Pennsylvania and western New York State.

It is expected that this Arctic air with freezing temperatures will be short-lived & temperatures will rebound quickly by Wednesday.