Current Radar Loops:
Severe Weather Likely Tonight — High 82°
3:00 PM Update
SPC’s latest update:
2% to 5% probability of a tornado occurring within 25 miles of you:
15% to 30% probability of a 58 mph or greater wind gust occurring within 25 miles of you:
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Today – Heavy Rain– High 76°
This morning’s rain is from a wave bringing instability, moisture, and warm temps — atypical for October. The wave can be seen tracking to the northeast into Nashville on the NAM’s 10 AM vertical uplift map.
What is a gust front?
Suppose you have a cluster of storms producing heavy rain, like we saw this morning.
When that rain falls, it brings wind with it. That wind hits the ground and has to go somewhere, so it moves away from the storm. And because there is rain-cooled air in the storm, what we get is rain-cooled air moving along the surface and away from the parent storm.
Dry Today — Rain Chances Return Thursday — Rain Likely Friday & Through the Weekend
A line of noisy thunderstorms rolled through Middle Tennessee late last night. For the heavy sleepers this isn’t a problem, but for wx nerds and light sleepers it is. Justin Bruce from WKRN had an excellent point:
A line of noisy thunderstorms rolled through Middle Tennessee late last night. For the heavy sleepers this isn’t a problem, but for wx nerds and light sleepers it is. Our friend Justin Bruce from WKRN had an excellent point!
The line of thunderstorms that moved through last night produced a handful of Severe Thunderstorm Warnings (winds 58+ mph) in both Davidson & Williamson Counties.
We finally got some rain:
Davidson County:
Hot Wednesday & Thursday — Rain & Storms Very Late Thursday Into Friday — Clearing Late Friday — Chilly Saturday
Today – Abnormally Hot – High 89°
Fresh off the 3rd driest September, also the 10th driest month ever (since records were being kept in 1871), today marks the first day of October. So how about 10° above the normal? The culprit is a ridge of high pressure sending in warm air on a southwesterly flow (“flow” means wind). The satellite water vapor image below shows the southwesterly flow (red arrow) and a trough of low pressure, coupled with a cold front (blue arrow) moving eastward.
Today – Coffee & Clear – High 84°
Happy National Coffee Day. Life would not be the same without this magic elixir!
To celebrate and get me through this Monday, I will attempt to drink 10 cups of coffee.
Today – Increasing Humidity – High 83°
Humidity is on the rise this afternoon, ahead of an approaching wave of tropical energy. Water vapor imagery shows its current location in the Gulf of Mexico. Check out the red arrows.
When it comes to weather, it seems we have gotten the golden ticket.
(Editor’s Note: That kid ^^^ isn’t Charlie. This kid is:)
Today – Warming But Pleasant – High 81°
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