Snow in Atlanta during Super Bowl week? Sounds like a recipe for disaster.

A winter storm is forecast to dump 1-2 inches of snow in the Atlanta area on Tuesday, just five days before Super Bowl LIII. Though the snow will end late Tuesday, several nights of below-freezing temperatures will follow, the National Weather Service said.

In a city known for grinding to a halt even in relatively light snowfalls, including the infamous "snow jam" of 2014, Tuesday's forecast might spell trouble.

The potential for black ice is “the overriding concern,” said Homer Bryson of the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency. Five years ago, on Jan. 28. 2014, thousands of cars, trucks and school buses were marooned in snow and ice around the city for hours.

Already, on Monday, before the first flake fell, northern Georgia roads were pre-treated and state offices preemptively closed for Tuesday.

Some good news: If the city can get past the snow of Tuesday and the cold of the following couple of days, better weather is forecast for the weekend: The weather on Super Bowl Sunday itself will be rather tranquil, with highs in the upper 50s and a 40 percent chance of showers.

The rain on Sunday won't matter for the game itself, as the Mercedes-Benz stadium has a dome. Though it's retractable, it's likely to be closed due to the threat of rain. But the precipitation could add to traffic woes and put a damper on tailgating.

Not surprisingly, the weather at most Super Bowls has been rather unremarkable. However, quarterback Peyton Manning won his first ring during the wettest Super Bowl on record, a downpour in Miami on Feb. 4, 2007, when his Indianapolis Colts beat the Chicago Bears. Nearly an inch of rain was measured for the day.

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The two times Detroit hosted the Super Bowl – both indoors, in 1982 and 2006 – were also the only two times that measurable snow fell on the host city on game day, according to William Schmitz of the Southeast Regional Climate Center.

Schmitz said the chilliest outdoor game was Super Bowl VI on Jan. 16, 1972, at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, where the high temperature only reached a brisk 43 degrees.

The weather during last year's game in Minneapolis was the coldest, at 9 degrees, but the domed stadium rendered the outdoor temperature moot.

The NFL was lucky it wasn't colder five years ago when the game was played at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, its first and so far, only, outdoor cold-weather Super Bowl. The high temperature that day reached a balmy 55 degrees. Amazingly, that was the warmest day of that entire month, according to the weather service.

The warmest Super Bowls both took place in southern California. The high temperature was 82 degrees during Super Bowl VII in 1973 in Los Angeles. It was also 82 for Super Bowl XXXVII in 2003 in San Diego.

Contributing: The Associated Press.

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