Several Chances For Storms This Week

It felt more like Summer on Monday afternoon as high temperatures topped out in the upper 80’s along with a much more humid day. A large deepening low pressure system will continue to strengthen over the northern Plains overnight and into Tuesday and a southerly flow will continue to pump in warm and humid air through much of the week ahead. Storms will start to increase in numbers as the storm system moves closer to us in the next couple of days.  Winds will start to pick up into Tuesday as we see a tighter pressure gradient developing between a fairly strong high pressure area south and the deepening low pressure system to our northwest. We’ll have the latest on how this will affect your week ahead right here!

TONIGHT:

Clouds will be on the increase into the evening hours and we will stay dry through at least midnight. A stray shower may make it into the viewing area by the early morning hours but should be out of the area shortly before sunrise giving us another fairly nice day tomorrow. Tonight’s lows will drop to around 66 and a 20% chance of a shower in the early morning hours. South winds will be between 5 and 10 mph.

A WINDY DAY TUESDAY:

It was already quite breezy today but winds will increase more into tomorrow with southwest winds gusting at times to around 30 mph. After a few very early morning showers, We’ll have most of the day in the dry weather before the scattered storms arrive by late evening. High temperatures will again surge into the 80’s with added cloud cover holding us to the lower to mid 80’s in the afternoon. Southwest winds will be sustained around 12 to 15 mph with gusts as high as 30 mph at times.

TUESDAY NIGHT:

Numerous scattered storms will enter the picture by the late evening and become more likely in the night time. The chance of storms will climb to around 60% by late evening and a couple of storms could become strong or severe, especially near the Mississippi River. Weather models area really struggling with the timing on the timing but as now, Timing of the storms looks to be between around 6 pm with storms arriving in the western counties and pushing into the central areas by around 9 pm with storms moving near the Tennessee River by around midnight.

Rain will move out by Wednesday morning with Wednesday starting off mostly Dry. Lows on Tuesday night will drop to the upper 60’s.

WEDNESDAY:

Once the storms move out overnight Tuesday, We’ll return to a dry start to Wednesday with partly sunny skies and highs returning to mid 80’s. Scattered storms will again return by late afternoon and evening. Right now the Storms Prediction Center has us in the 2 out of 5 risk area over the northern counties with the rest of the area under the 1 out of 5 risk level on Wednesday. Both Tuesday night and again on Wednesday, we’ll want to be weather aware.

LATE WEEK:

Late week will bring a couple of cold fronts the the area and we’ll move into cooler temperatures around the weekend but we’ll continue to have scattered storm chances Thursday evening and again Late Friday. We’ll notice a big cooldown into Friday as we return to the lower 70s for highs and the lower to middle 60’s into the weekend. Lows by Saturday night will be back in the upper 40’s and well dip to the lower 40s on Sunday night. At this time, it still looks like scattered rain chances on both Saturday and Sunday and we’ll have the latest right here on WBBJ 7 Eyewitness News at 10 pm, and again at 5 and 6 am so be sure and join us for the latest on the storms and the rain ahead.

Brian Davis
Storm Team 7 Meteorologist
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