Mild New Year’s Eve, Warm New Year’s Day, Rain Back on Friday!

WBBJ 7 Forecast Update

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Joel Barnes,

WBBJ 7 Forecast Update:

After starting our day in the mid 20s highs have reached into the 50s for all of West Tennessee this afternoon. We will be in the 30s to kick off the new year around midnight and will fall down near freezing by the morning. Highs should reach up close to 60° for everyone in our area tomorrow to kick off 2026. A low pressure system will move through on Friday and bring some rain showers with it. A few weak storms cannot be ruled out near the Mississippi border but we are NOT expecting big storms or severe weather. The weekend will be a little cooler and dry but 60s are coming back next week. Catch the full forecast and latest weather information coming up here.

May be an image of map and text that says 'STORMTEAM WEATHER wbbjtv.com CURRENT TEMPS 4:25 UsioaCily 50° 53° 50° Dyarsburg 51° 48° Hendiredo 50° 54° Camdon 49° renntrvile 54° ไสม่างโวด 51° 54 53° Parsons 54° Manphis 55° 51° 54° 54° ริ้สพจากใ 54° Salrmer 50° After starting our day in the mid 20s highs have reached into the 50s for all of West Tennessee this afternoon. We will be in the 30s to kick off STORM TEAM WEATHER wbbjtv.com FORECAST TEMPERATURES NEXT HOURS 60 60 58 55 43 43 50 45 36 40 35 the new year around midnight and will fall down near freezing by the morning. 2p'

THIS WEEK:

Tuesday was another cold day with highs only reaching the mid to upper 30s. Everyone fell short of 40° but most of West Tennessee warmed back into the 50s for Wednesday and that will continue for the remainder of the week. Skies remained sunny the last couple days and will be mostly clear at night until we get closer to the end of the work week. Tuesday night lows feel to the mid to upper 20s with a wind chill near 20° around sunrise. The warm up started on Wednesday as the winds will be back to the southwest until late Friday. Wednesday highs reached up into the 50s for everyone and Wednesday night lows will be around normal and fall down near freezing in the low 30s as we kick in the new year. New Year’s Eve will be chilly, but dry around the region.

For the first day of 2026, some clouds will build back in during the day on Thursday but we should still see plenty of sunshine for the majority of the day. The next system will get closer during the day but not push through until Friday. The winds on Thursday will start our calm but will kick up late in the day out of the southeast and that should help the temperatures climb back into the mid 50s for all of West Tennessee. Thursday night lows will be mild and drop down to around 40°.

The next shot for rain is coming in on Friday and thunderstorms or severe weather seems unlikely at this time. As the low pressure system comes through the Mid South, some weak showers will be possible but rain amounts appear to be low with this system. Highs on Friday will be the warmest of the week and will reach up to the upper 50s to near 60°. Expect a mostly cloudy day on Friday and the rain is not expected until the afternoon at the earliest and all the rain should move our Friday night into Saturday morning. Friday night lows will drop down again to around 40°.

THE WEEKEND:

The weekend is looking pretty nice as of now and the showers coming in on Friday should clear out and not impact your weekend plans. Saturday will be a little cooler behind Friday’s system with highs still making it up to around 50° though. The cooldown will be short lived as highs will be back into the mid 50s by Sunday. Saturday night will be a little cool in the mid 30s and Sunday night lows will be mild and only fall down to the low 40s. Even warmer weather is expected to kick off next week. The winds this weekend will start out of the north on Saturday and turn up calm for the most part on Sunday and back to the south to kick off next week. There will be some early day clouds on Saturday as the system moves out but overall, we should see plenty of sunshine for the first weekend of 2026.