Rain Out Tonight, Cold Back Thursday, Severe Threat Saturday, Snow Chances Next Week!
WBBJ 7 Forecast Update
WBBJ 7 Forecast Update:
Rain showers will continue this afternoon and early this evening before clearing out tonight. As the rain moves out, the cooler weather will be returning with wind chills falling down around 20° for Thursday morning. Thursday will be a cold and breezy day but we will stay dry until Friday night. Heavy rain and storms (some possibly severe) are coming back on Saturday and that could lead to some more concerning issues with potential flooding. The Tennessee River is Savannah is forecast to reach the moderate flood stage into next week. We will have the latest on the rain, the cold, the storms an oh, maybe even some snow next week; the latest right here.
THIS WEEK:
After starting out with 8 days above normal to kick off the month of February, we finally had a couple days below normal for Sunday and Monday. We will drop below freezing for the first time in a while maybe Thursday morning but Thursday night for sure. Rain moved in Monday night and lasted into Tuesday afternoon and another round will move in during the first half of the day on Wednesday. Heavier rain is expected on Saturday and that will lead to some increased flooding concern in West Tennessee including the Tennessee River near Savannah.
Wednesday was a little warmer with highs reaching the low 50s up under a warm front in the evening hours. That lifting front brought another round of showers and some non severe storm activity during the afternoon and early evening hours Wednesday evening to the Mid South. Wednesday night a cold front will move through drying things out a bit but also dropping temperatures down near freezing before the sun comes up on Thursday. The clouds will break up Wednesday night and we should see a mix of sun and clouds back on Thursday. The wind chill will drop down to around 20° by Thursday morning and stay below freezing all day on Thursday.
Thursday and Friday will be dry this week but will only be quite cold. Highs on Thursday will only make it up to around 40° and overnight lows into Friday morning will fall into the mid 20s for the first time in a couple weeks. There will be no precipitation those days so we will not be seeing any snow or ice. Friday nights will warm back up into the afternoon a bit with southeast winds back during the evening. We should reach the low 50s on Friday and Friday night lows will fall to the mid 40s. There could be some rain coming back late Friday night but the heavy rain and next chances for storms will show up on Saturday. Friday will start out with some sunshine but clouds will move in towards the back half of the day and stick around to kick off the weekend.
THE WEEKEND:
The greatest threat for severe weather in a few weeks will be here on Saturday. As of now, the main concern looks to stay just south of West Tennessee but there is a really good chance we have some strong storm activity developing for some of us across the Mid South as well. The system is several days out but has already grabbed the attention of the Storm Prediction Center as they have issued a severe weather outlook several days out already for the event. Saturday will be a cloudy day and the winds will be quite gusty and come out of the southwest. The winds will shift back to the northwest on Sunday!
Saturday highs will reach the mid 60s and the dew point will be very high into the afternoon and evening helping to fuel the potential storms. A cold front will pass Saturday night dropping temperatures all the way down near freezing again by Sunday morning. Rainfall amounts are expected to be in the 2-4″ range on Saturday along in our viewing around. That additional rain, on top of already saturated grounds will likely lead to some flooding in low lying areas, river, creeks and streams across West Tennessee.
Sunday will be dry and much cooler with highs struggling to even get out of the upper 30s. The sun should come back out Sunday late in the day as well. Sunday night lows will fall down to low to mid 20s making for a cold start to next week. Next week will start out cold on Monday but we will warm back up a bit for Tuesday. The next system will move through Tuesday night next week into Wednesday morning and that system will bring a potential return of winter precipitation (including snow and ice) back to the Mid South as well!
Storm Team Chief Meteorologist
Joel Barnes
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