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:
Current Official Hourly Observation (taken at :53 on the hour)
Hot (high 93°) and dry today. If you’re planning to go to the fair . . .
. . . do it Tuesday night! Because Wednesday. . .
Current Official Hourly Observation (taken at :53 on the hour)
Monday & Tuesday
We will be hot, but unseasonably not-too-humid under mostly sunny skies with highs topping out in the lower 90’s.
Current Official Hourly Observation (taken at :53 on the hour)
From Sunday through Wednesday morning:
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.
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:
Current Official Hourly Observation (taken at :53 on the hour)
Current Radar Loop
Today – Mostly Sunny – High 88
Another cooler-and-drier-than-normal day is on tap. Even though there’s a trough of low pressure sitting on top of us, it lacks moisture. The most we will see is a sprinkle or two.
Current Official Hourly Observation (taken at :53 on the hour)
Current Radar Loop
Lately we’ve been giving you a lot of love for being cool, July. But, this was not a cool way to go out:
Current Official Temp (taken at :53 every hour)
Early this morning we hit 58°, tying the record low daily temp for July 30, set back in 1965.
Today’s temps will cruise into the mid 80°s, alongside humidity levels the NWS calls “unbelievably comfortable for July.” Temps will slide back into the low 60°s, maybe even the upper 50°s.
Current Official Hourly Observation (taken at :53 on the hour)
I imagine today’s weather was exactly like the weather when Ferris took his day off.
Today – Cool, Sunny & Dry – High 81
Current Official Temp (updated at :53 on the hour)
Cool, dry air is pouring into Middle TN from the N.
We may see a record low temp early Tuesday morning, 58° set in 1925.
This dry, cool pattern has staying power. We aren’t expected to make it out of the 80s all week.