2020 began with heavy rain. 2020 will end with heavy rain.
First, a minor event tonight.
Light rain tonight, ETA a few hours before midnight. Not a heavy event (that’s Thursday). Tonight’s rain will be off and on, scattered, and should end around sunrise Monday. Was hardly worth mentioning but here it is. HRRR model below.
Oh, no, Sir. Festivus is all too real.
George Costanza
37 MPH was the top reported hourly BNA wind gust as of 6 PM. Gusts 40-45 MPH are possible until midnight. A Wind Advisory remains in effect until then. Winds will blow from the south.
Local CoCoRahs observers needed a 1 inch long ruler to log November 30 snow totals:
Got flocked.
November 30, 2020
The Middle Tennessee snow winner was:
Jamestown and surrounding communities (Fentress Co) were the winners yesterday with 3-4 inches of snow.
So far so good. Just rain this morning. We think the strong/severe threat — while pretty low — will be late this afternoon.
Here’s the radar before 8 AM:
The wind is howling. A Wind Advisory remains effective, BNA gusted to 38 MPH and a 40+ MPH gust is possible today.
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36° expected Tuesday morning. Many of us will hit freezing around sunrise. But you’re not here for a temp forecast.
SPC hasn’t updated their storm outlook for Wednesday’s potential storm event since this morning. The next update is due Tuesday morning at 1 AM.
Just before 5 PM what’s left of Tropical Depression Laura was centered just north of the KY/TN line, moving east and dragging heavy rain and gusty winds along with it.
Laura was not cool today. Here’s what happened.
At 6:54 PM Hurricane Laura was seen from space in the remaining sunlight, moving NW at 15 MPH, maximum sustained winds 145 MPH.
Those are 145 MPH sustained winds; the March 3 Nashville tornado peaked at these speeds. Hurricane Laura will ram through Louisiana like a wide EF-3 tornado, carving a huge damage swath.
We live in a world where Aunt Becky has gone to jail and consecutive hurricanes are about to enter the Gulf and there is a pandemic and there are injustices everywhere and now you need a cup of coffee to read these words because this forecast is more complicated and frustrating than Mrs. Rich would be reading this run on sentence. I had Mrs. Rich for seventh grade English and God Bless Her, she tried really hard.
The Intern who was supposed to write this is rescuing a family of kittens from a tree. A ladder, something about a standoff, and tuna is involved. So far no one is blaming the tree, but before I could get details, the intern had to go.
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