Scattered Showers & Weak Storms Tonight, Cool Weekend Coming
WBBJ 7 Forecast Update
WBBJ 7 Forecast Update
After some morning rain showers, it turned out to be a nice and quiet afternoon on Friday. A cold front will move through tonight but it will only usher in some light showers. Most of us will see less than 0,10″ of rain at most and be dry by late Saturday morning. The main impact from the front will be the cooler weather moving in for the weekend. Many folks in West Tennessee will be near freezing Sunday morning. Find out if we will be dropping below freezing this weekend and I will let you know when the cooler temperatures will be moving out right here.
With as warm as temperatures have been the last few weeks, people are starting to get that itch to start planting, that is NOT a good idea. We still have a couple weeks of winter left and the odds of having another frost is almost 100% and the odds of us having another freeze is also highly likely. We usually do not see our last freeze until the beginning of April and our last frost during the middle of April. If we didn’t see another freeze or frost, that would be record smashing by almost 6 weeks in both cases, so that isn’t going to happen. We will see a couple more cold pushes before Spring officially kicks off so please hold off on those temptations for now!
TONIGHT:
Clouds and showers are likely to move back in Friday night and some thunderstorms may try to mix in as well. The severe weather threat looks quite low as of now but we will be watching things closely tonight in the weather center. Highs on Friday reached the mid to upper 60s and Friday night lows will drop down to the low 50s°. The winds came out of the southeast on Friday but will turn back to the west or northwest later tonight as the next low pressure system and cold front move through. Expect cloudy skies all night long and chances for rain is already at 70% for tonight. Showers may linger into the overnight hours into early Saturday morning, but we will dry out by Saturday afternoon and it will be a much cooler this weekend as well.
THE WEEKEND:
Rain showers are likely to continue Saturday morning before clearing out as the day goes on. We will still see mostly cloudy skies on Saturday but they should clear out Saturday night making for a mostly sunny and dry day on Sunday. Highs on Saturday will climb up to only the mid 50s and Saturday night lows will fall down to the mid to upper 30s. We are expecting a cool day again on Sunday with highs only reaching the mid 50s. We will fall into the 30s both weekend mornings with Sunday night lows down in the mid 30s, leading to a shot for some frost both mornings as well. The winds will change from the west to the northwest as the weekend progresses. Plenty of sunshine is in the forecast as we start the following work week.
NEXT WEEK:
Next week is going to start out really nice with mostly sunny skies. The winds will come out of the south most of the week and that will start warming us back up. Each day through Thursday next week will be warmer than the previous day. Highs on Monday will be in the mid 60, upper 60s on Tuesday, low 70s on Wednesday and mid 70s on Thursday. Clouds will increase in the middle of the week and the rain showers and storms will look to hold off until late Thursday or Friday next week. We cannot rule out a brief showers or two on Wednesday but most of us will see any precipitation until Friday. Rain chances are 20% on Wednesday, 30% on Thursday and 60% on Friday.
FINAL THOUGHT:
Long term forecast models are suggesting a warm start to March. Spring is less than 2 weeks away and starts on March 19th this year. As the warmer weather moves in, we might be transitioning to more of a severe weather threat than a cold and snowy one for the last couple weeks of Winter. There still will be some frost and likely another freeze this season, so hold off on planting for a few more weeks at least. More chances exist in the forecast later this week as well. Next weekend looks to be much cooler than the previous one with near normal temperatures coming.
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Storm Team Chief Meteorologist
Joel Barnes
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