Sunshine and 72° as of 4:00 pm. This has been a fantastic day.
Tuesday will be similar, a bit warmer, with highs around 77°.
Tuesday night, our next system will swing in bringing a chance for rain and thunderstorms. The window for rain opens Tuesday late afternoon and closes Thursday morning.
Yesterday’s Wilson/Smith Co. Tornado.
Just before 4:45 PM, the line that came through north Williamson County/south Davidson County tapped higher instability and slightly more favorable tornadomaking ingredients.
Today we’ll see waves or rain, and possibly some strong to severe storms.
Today will be around 72º with plenty of mid-day sun.
Low pressure moves from west to east Saturday. Showers may start as early as midnight tonight, and will get wider in coverage through the morning. Strongest winds will be around mid-day and stick around through Sunday.
A surface low is passing by, strengthening winds. Expect 40 MPH wind gusts this morning, afternoon, and early evening, then relaxing later tonight.
Something is up.
That something is rain and storms breaking out just after lunch, then scattering and moving east through the afternoon, ending just before midnight. Like this:
A brief shower possible early tonight (Wednesday).
The real rain event begins around midnight. Here it is from midnight to 5 AM Thursday:
NWS-Nashville thinks more than a half inch of rain. Storms are possible with shear off the charts (again) but zero instability (again) so no tornado or hail concerns.
Plenty of sunshine. Northwest winds are gusty (gusting to 22 mph as of 11:00 am), but it still feels nice outside, high of 70°. Enjoy that!
One side note from NWS, however:
There are some gusty winds behind the front and this could cause a marginal fire danger. Will keep an eye on this.
The sun is back! A light northerly breeze won’t be able to keep temperatures from rising to near 70° today.
We get to continue enjoying near perfect weather! The sun stays around for Tuesday and Wednesday with highs reaching 69° both days. No definite danger of a frost or freeze early in the week, although lows in Nashville could reach 41° early Wednesday morning as a very weak front drops low temps a bit. If there’s any night to watch, that would be it, as outlying areas are always a bit cooler than in town.
Tornadoes (again) are the worry along and south of I-20 today across LA, MS, AL, and GA.
We won’t get tornadoes. We’ll get some rain. Yesterday we thought we’d get 0.5″ or more. Today we think 0.2″ or less. Two reasons.
As we discussed yesterday, it will be cooler today but with plenty of sunshine streaking through this afternoon. High of 62º.
Unsolicited housekeeping advice: Do it tomorrow. Today is a day for playing outside.
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