Our high temperature of 69º will arrive shortly after noon, between 1-3pm, in addition to gusty southwest winds in excess of 25 mph. Very humid air has already engulfed middle Tennessee and will continue to hang around with us until showers and storms move through later on.
A powerful storm system will move across the Tennessee Valley this weekend, bringing much warmer temperatures to Middle Tennessee today and especially by Saturday. Showers and a few thunderstorms are also anticipated Saturday afternoon and into the evening. Some storms may be strong to possibly severe. Saturday night, an arctic cold front will sweep across Middle Tennessee, bringing much colder air back into the area. As this occurs, rain may changeover to a wintry mix of freezing rain or sleet late Saturday night into Sunday morning before precipitation ends. However, only light ice accumulation amounts look possible at this time.
There is good news and bad news with today’s drought index update. The good news is we did not get worse. The bad news is we did not get any better really. Both Davidson and Williamson Counties are included in the “severe drought” category once again.
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20° Thursday morning, with winds to 11 MPH, driving wind chills into single digits at times.
We’ll stay below freezing the rest of the day. High only 30°.
The next few days will be rain-free and particularly chilly from tonight through Friday morning.
We currently have a series of high pressures set up to our west, as shown below.
High pressures have a clockwise circulation around them, so since they are to our west, these high pressures are causing for our winds to be from the North and thus bringing in cooler air.
By dinnertime, a cold front moving from the west will be over-top of us, raring to bring below average temperatures for the rest of the week.
Lots of sun is expected the remainder of the week, but a cold Arctic airmass will keep afternoon temperatures way down.
Cloudy skies will prevail throughout the remainder of the day and into tonight.
One of our short term models has now decided that it wants to put some light showers over our area tomorrow.
Showers, if we see any, should be fairly scattered and brief. The AM work commute could be wet and you may need an umbrella heading into the office tomorrow morning. NAM 4 has the showers drifting around through the morning, but mostly gone by the lunch hour.
Rain is coming in from the west.
Expect it to start as off and on, light showers tonight.
After midnight, it should turn steady, and a little heavy. The HRRR model’s simulated future radar illustrates:
Overnight, the winds turned. They’re now blowing in warmer air from the south. We should make it up to 53°.
Sustained winds 16 MPH this afternoon will gust to 28 MPH. It’s very important for the Titans win the coin toss.
We expect Sunday to be dry until late in the night and early Monday morning…great news for Titans fans, as it will be warmer with temps in the 50s, also! But hold onto your hats — winds will gust as high as 25 mph.
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