🆕 Forecast Change: Frost Advisory Overnight.

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Frost Advisory tonight.

Cover or shelter beloved frost sensitive plants.

  • Advisory is technically for overnight, 1 AM to 9 AM. Coldest temps will last for a few hours around sunrise.
  • We do not think it’ll freeze but it’ll be close.
  • Models came in about three degrees colder overnight. BNA’s low went from 40° to 37°.
  • Your backyard is usually colder than BNA during fall and winter mornings.

Rain increasingly likely late Wednesday into Thursday.

  • GFS, Euro, and National Blend of Models show 0.6″ to 1.2″ rain total.
  • Most of this should fall Thursday.

🤞🏽 Thunderstorms – probably not severe – may accompany this rain. This’ll be a “high shear, low instability” event common here in the fall. read more

Upper 30°s Sunday Morning.

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Dry cold front arrives today.

  • No big deal.
  • Upper 30°s for most backyards early Sunday morning.
  • Official BNA low 40° Sunday morning. BNA is among the warmer local spots during fall and winter mornings.
  • Frost unlikely, except on roofs.
HRRR model temps Sunday morning. Time stamps upper right.

Gradual warmup next week 📈.

Drought continues ⌛

  • Has not rained more than 0.02″ since September 11.
  • Next rain chance Wed-Thu next week. Not much, total of 0.3″ or so on average. This is a low confidence forecast.
Euro model for Weds night *unreliable at this range* but at least it’s nice to see rain on a model.

Quick References:

Weather changes constantly.
Follow @NashSevereWx on Twitter for any changes to this forecast.

Live coverage during tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings. read more

Deck Sealers Rejoice for “Moderate Drought”

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We are all “abnormally dry.”

  • Even worse: most of Nashville is in a moderate drought.

You know how it happened:

  • Our last rain of more than a tenth of an inch was 0.44″ on September 11.
  • We average 3.80″ from Sept 1 to Oct 6. This year we’ve had 1.43″, almost all of which came the first two weeks of Sept.

Not even a chance of rain until maybe late Wednesday, Oct. 12. Low confidence in that.

It’s a great time to seal your driveway or stain your deck. read more

Elevated Afternoon Fire Danger

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  • Don’t burn stuff this afternoon.
  • afternoon relative humidity 10% to 20%, that’s crazy dry
  • brown ground getting crunchy
  • thankfully winds should be under 10 MPH, but still …

… no significant rain has fallen in Middle Tennessee since September 11 and our area has become quite dry – so elevated fire danger is expected during the afternoon hours with a risk for brush fires. read more

Hot then cold, sorry but no rain

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Mid week warm up incoming, then much colder this week.

  • Upper 80°s Thursday in some models.
  • Cold front arrives Thursday night.
  • Much colder weekend mornings.
  • Some us of will see upper 30°s before sunrise Sunday morning.

Euro shows several colder than normal mornings over the next two weeks:

Euro and GFS models show no rain chances until on/after October 13.

  • At least some fire danger remains
  • Especially tomorrow as relative humidity drops more.

Quick References: read more

No Rain In Sight, so a few words and graphs about fall temps.

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Ian is over there 👉🏽

Ian’s rain is all going east of us this weekend:

No rain in sight.

  • Models show a front next Thursday bringing us no rain.
  • No surprise, October is our driest month.

Our average first fall freeze is November 1.

  • Euro ensemble model 👇🏽 shows temps mostly above average until the second week of … November.
  • CPC guidance 👇🏽 thinks above normal average temps (there will be cold snaps) through December:

This is not ideal. So-called “Secondary Storm Season” begins in November. read more