TODAY – CLOUDY, DRY, COUCH, FOOTBALL, MID 50’S

Today is a great day to do nothing. There’s plenty of college football on and no real reason to start any of those resolutions. Reality begins for most of us tomorrow.

WEDNESDAY – CLOUDY AND DRY DURING THE DAY, RAIN AT NIGHT, 40’S

Wednesday will see our temps dip back to a more seasonally appropriate temp and we’ll see some rain sweet through after 7. It shouldn’t mess with rush hour and will be gone lone before Morning. Here’s a view of what the NAM thinks, and most other models agree. No shenanigans are expected. read more

The Tornado Watch and storm threat is over.

Localized flooding with a rise in area creeks, streams, and rivers has been the legacy of the departed storm line. There were also a few wind-related damage reports. Check out a sampling of reports on #tSpotter. Or just this one: read more

From the Storm Prediction Center:

Primary threats include…

• A couple tornadoes possible
• Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

A Watch covers a large area and means Be Ready, conditions are favorable for a tornado.

A Warning covers a smaller area and means Immediately Take Action/Shelter, a tornado is occurring or imminent inside the warned area. read more

A Wind Advisory starts at 9 AM and ends at 6 PM. Winds will gust into the 30 MPH range, with scattered occasional gusts up to 45 MPH. With heavy rain last night, sick or shallow-rooted trees may come down should one of those 45 MPH gusts find them. These are winds independent of storms coming later today. read more

Rain ETA

Light rain is arriving now. On Twitter I’ll be covering the impact, if any, this rain has on the Titans game, so let’s just move on to New Year’s Eve, because there’s a lot to say about it. read more

Dear NSW,

Colts at Titans kickoff at 7:20 PM. I have tickets and my cousin Marbles is a degenerate gambler. Will it rain?

/s/ Fish

The truth is weather models still disagree, but if we look through them we’ll get an educated guess.

• The Euro model thinks it might start very lightly raining in the fourth quarter, but probably not.
• The HRRR model (my go-to model at this range, but it’s not perfect) thinks rain will arrive in the second half, not really effecting field conditions too much, but enough to make the ball slippery.

• The NAM3 model is the rainiest (as usual, it loves to say Watch Out! Gonna Rain!). Here it is, below, from 7 PM to 11 PM tonight, delivering rain throughout the game:

By mid-afternoon we’ll have a good idea which model will land closest to the truth when we look on radar to our southwest and see how close the rain actually is to us. read more

If you read this blog this morning, the blue ink is new.

Today – Dry, Temps in the 40’s

Most of the low clouds will mix out of our area from West to East today. As they do, high clouds will be establishing themselves as a front approaches. Great afternoon to watch some college football. read more

You: Can we have bad weather Sunday night? Indy’s a dome team!

Us: Probably not. The game should be pretty comfy actually, maybe some light rain but probably not.

You: How about excellent NYE weather? read more

It was not earthquake. It was lightning!

At 3:39, multiple lightning strikes hit simultaneously around Nashville causing a very loud thunderous roar from Goodlettsville to Nolensville to Brentwood. Here are some still shots of the strikes from our cameras downtown, all taken from just a few frames of video. ^al pic.twitter.com/rlTfGzeg2x read more

A Wind Advisory has been issued for both Davidson and Williamson counties from 6 AM today to 6 AM Friday.

With this we can expect sustained south winds of 15 to 30 mph with gusts upwards of 45 mph. Hold on to your hats! read more