Dangerously Hot This Week

Weather Update – 10:30 p.m. – Monday, July 8th

Hot and humid – that’s how we do it in West Tennessee in the Summertime, and this week will be no exception. There will be a chance for the heat index to be over 105°F for part of the forecast and there’s only a low chance for rain on a couple of days this week to provide us with a little relief from the oppressive heat and humidity. We may also have our next named storm of the Atlantic Hurricane Season appear in the Gulf of Mexico before the weekend!

TONIGHT
Expect another quiet but humid evening for West Tennessee. Temperatures will only fall to the lower and middle 70s by sunrise Tuesday morning under mostly clear skies. It’ll already feel like 90°F by 9 o’clock Tuesday morning.

There’s a very low chance for rain on Tuesday, so there won’t be much relief from the heat! There’s a 20% chance for scattered showers between the late morning and early evening. Thanks to mostly sunny skies, temperatures will peak in the low to mid 90s tomorrow with a heat index approaching 105°F in the afternoon! A heat advisory is in effect for Shelby, Tipton, and Lauderdale county from the morning to early evening. There’s even hotter weather ahead and the potential for a tropical cyclone to develop this week in the Gulf of Mexico. Right now, there’s an 80% chance for tropical development near the Gulf Coast over the next 5 days with this storm forecast to move southwest and west toward Louisiana and Texas. Stay with WBBJ 7 Eyewitness News for the latest forecast and keep up with Storm Team Weather online too for more updates.

Tom Meiners
Storm Team 7 Chief Meteorologist, CBM
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