Forecast quandaries confronting NWS-Nashville tonight include (1) a meandering weak summertime surface frontal boundary, (2) convective boundaries from previous day’s convection, (3) differential diurnal heating aspects per cloud coverage breaks, and (4) shortwave passages in developing northwesterly flow pattern aloft.
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More Rain & Thunderstorms
Update on Rain Tonight, Tomorrow, & Saturday
Here Comes a Lot of Rain
“Looks like it’s gonna clabber up . . .”
Before we even look at the current temp, I need to clear something up, via run-on-sentence (look away, Mrs. Rich, my 7th grade grammar teacher). Has to do with weather and the south.
I was watching a video titled *cough* “Things” Southern Women Say (made by Southern Boyz Outdoors via Facebook), which I shall not link herein because this is a family show, but anyway, at the 0:51 mark, a southern lady suspicious of gathering clouds and a pending rainstorm said:
Frizzy Hair Alert!
Hot Now, Rain Later This Week, & Awful Jokes. Truly Awful.
When You Should Go To The Fair
Current Official Hourly Observation (taken at :53 on the hour)
From Sunday through Wednesday morning:
- there’s a 0% chance of rain.
- high temps will be in the low 90s.
- it’ll be hot, but humidity won’t be terrible.
Starting Wednesday afternoon, the humidity will worsen, and continue to worsen into Friday and Saturday. As this happens, the chance of an afternoon shower/thunderstorm will return. Typical August.
The 90s Return
Current Official Hourly Observation (taken at :53 on the hour)
Water vapor imagery shows Saturday afternoon rain and storms firing up over SE Middle TN and N Alabama:
Those are drifting ESE. We should remain dry, although it’s possible we’ll see another shower today (we saw one around noon in SE Williamson Co.; it slowly dissipated). Here’s the HRRR loop from 3 PM until Midnight Saturday:
