Rain By Friday Afternoon, Mild & Dry Weekend Expected

WBBJ 7 Forecast Update:

We managed to get a great evening with temperatures in the lower 70s with only a gradual increase of clouds. The air is very dry but a few showers could manage to get through by Friday morning as a low pressure moves closer to us. Rain chances will increase through the day Friday and by afternoon, there will be a healthy chance of a shower over west Tennessee. A cold front sweeps through by Saturday morning starting us out cooler into the Weekend. Catch the full forecast details coming up right here.

TONIGHT:

After a pleasant evening, a few showers are showing up to our south and headed our way. Most of the rain will fall apart near the Mississippi line as it encounters the drier air in place, however, by morning, a couple of stray showers could make it into the southern counties. Tonight, mostly cloudy and cool with lows around 52 and light east winds around 5 mph. A slight chance of a shower mainly south. Chance of rain less than 20%.

FRIDAY:

Clouds will increase into the day Friday with showers looking more likely in the afternoon and evening hours. Chance of rain is at 70% by 3pm and a few showers will continue to hang around into the night as well before moving. Northeast winds around 5 to 10 mph. Highs will be lower than today with the rain cooled air and clouds overhead, topping out in the mid 60s.

FRIDAY NIGHT: 

Most of the heavier rain should taper off by around 8 pm but a few showers will linger into around midnight. Turning cooler with lows in the lower to mid 40’s.  Southeast winds between 5 and 15 mph with higher wind gusts at times to 25 mph.

THE WEEKEND:

The weekend is looking pretty nice across West Tennessee. Highs will reach the low 60s on Saturday and mid to upper 60s on Sunday. We should see plenty of sunshine although there will be some clouds both days.

Saturday night lows will fall down into the upper 30s and Sunday night lows will only dip to the low 50s. The winds will come out of the north on Saturday but slowly transition to the east on Sunday and to the southeast by Sunday night. We are not expecting any rain in the forecast but early next week, a round of heavy rain and thunderstorms will look to move through the Mid South.

As of right now, It looks like most of the energy with this system will be to our south but we will be monitoring a developing system to our west over Weekend. Right now the SPC has placed a long range outlook for Late Monday into Tuesday for the risk of severe weather based on current data and models.

The more exact track and path for severe weather will become more clear as we get closer and we’ll be updating throughout the Weekend ahead of the event.

FINAL THOUGHT:

We saw a very cold end to winter before temperatures try to recover in the middle of the week to kick off the first full day of Spring. Some isolated showers will look to return late Thursday into Friday but they will not mount up too much. We probably have not seen our last frost year of the Spring so please do not plant yet. There could be some more stronger storms on the way early next week, so we will need to be keeping a close eye on that situation as the first week or Spring marches on.

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Brian Davis
Storm Team 7 Meteorologist
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