Freezing temperatures grip the Southeast

After snow in Tennessee and North Carolina, record-breaking temperatures are in store for much of the Southeast on Friday and Saturday.

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00:00that cold air right now all the way down to the gulf coast. That's why we

00:03have freeze warnings out for parts of florida up into alabama georgia over

00:08into southern texas as well. The other story with the cold is the wind. Now we

00:13have started to see wind gusts die down a little bit, 17 MPH right now in

00:17Jackson, but we are still seeing pockets here, the darker purple shades

00:21where we're looking at, you know, 24 to 32 MPH wind gusts. So seeing some

00:25gusty winds really throughout the day with the cold wind and cold, not a

00:30great combination for anyone that has been outside 19 degrees right now in

00:34Nashville 35 in Montgomery 32 over in Raleigh. A lot of areas hovering around

00:40the freezing mark or even getting below freezing. So anything on the ground

00:44that was just wet, that will probably refreeze at this point as those

00:48temperatures drop and the cold air, it remains in place come tomorrow to the

00:52point that we have record challenging lows. Take a look to below, not quite

00:57getting to break that record, but Birmingham alabama set to tie the

01:01previous record from 1963 here, Vicksburg, Mississippi, Macon, Georgia

01:06and Mobile alabama all set to break your previous record lows from either

01:09the fifties or the seventies, depending on the city there. Now our highs not

01:14getting much better in the accurate, the real field temperatures for the

01:17morning, even worse than those air temperatures for those of us in the

01:21light blue shades. 10 to 20 is that real feel range. Darker blue were in

01:24the 0 to 10. The good news out of this. We are not below zero. The purple

01:28shades indicate accurate. The real field temperatures below zero. And

01:32then here are those high temperatures, and I'm comparing them to historical

01:34averages just to give you an idea of how cold it is and really where we

01:37should be. Nashville, for example, you should be in the mid fifties. Instead,

01:41you're in the mid thirties down in New Orleans. You should be in the upper

01:43sixties. Instead, you're in the upper forties. Saturday. Things don't improve

01:49too much here. We're sticking with the lingering cold here. More record

01:54challenging highs here. Many of these in the teens and the twenties. But

01:57there is an end in sight. Take a quick look at the next five days in

02:00Nashville. We go from the thirties on Friday to about the ballpark of

02:04historical averages in on Sunday and the Monday and Tuesday were even

02:08warmer up into the sixties.