Cold Front Coming Wednesday Morning, Another Friday Night!
WBBJ 7 Forecast Update
WBBJ 7 Forecast Update:
A cold front is coming later tonight and will cool things down nicely for our Wednesday. Temperatures will remain mild behind the front and another front will look to move through Friday night making for a very pleasant and borderline early fall-like weekend. Both fronts appear to be dry fronts though. We will have your complete forecast including the latest on Tropical Storm Debby who has already brought over 15″ of rain to areas along the Mid Atlantic coastline, all coming up here.
TONIGHT:
Tuesday will be the hottest day of the week for us in West Tennessee. Highs will reach as high as 97° and it will be a bit humid. The heat index could reach as high as 105° so there is a chance a heat advisory gets issued, it will be close. Skies will remain sunny all day and the winds are forecast to come out of the northwest. We are not expecting any rain and overnight lows will fall down to the low 70s again.
WEDNESDAY:
A cold front is on the way early Wednesday that will cool down temperatures about 5=10° is all. But it will keep the northerly winds around and allow dry air to continue to hang around. This will keep the humidity down a bit but will also keep the rain away. There will be some increase in cloud cover but not rain. Highs on Wednesday will reach around 90° and Wednesday night lows will drop down to around 70°.
THURSDAY:
Thursday will be a very nice day for all of West Tennessee. We will not be seeing any rain and the humidity again will be low for a typical Mid South summer day. Skies will be sunny, clouds will be slim to none. The reason it will be cooler and less humid will be from the northerly winds between 5-10 MPH. Highs will again make it up to around 90° and Thursday night lows will fall down into the upper 60s.
FRIDAY:
Friday will warm back up a bit with highs getting as high as 93° for some of us. Skies will be mostly cloudy as another weak front will approach late in the day and pass by just in time for another brief cooldown for the weekend. The winds will remain out of the south keeping the humidity down and it will be too dry for any showers or storms to develop as the front passes by.
THE WEEKEND:
Highs this weekend might stay below 90° for the first weekend in a while here in West Tennessee. Highs will still reach the upper 80s but we are not expecting a humid weekend either! The winds will come out of the north all weekend long. The rain showers will stay away again this weekend and in general, we are looking at mostly sunny skies. Overnight lows will also be nice this weekend and some of us could fall all the way down to the mid 60s. It will not quite be fall-like, but it sure will be nice. Make some weekend plans and enjoy the great weather!
TROPICAL STORM DEBBY:
LOCATION...31.8N 80.2W ABOUT 50 MI...80 KM ESE OF SAVANNAH GEORGIA ABOUT 70 MI...115 KM SSW OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...40 MPH...65 KM/H PRESENT MOVEMENT...E OR 90 DEGREES AT 5 MPH...7 KM/H MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...996 MB...29.42 INCHES
At 1100 PM EDT (0300 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Debby was located near latitude 31.8 North, longitude 80.2 West. Debby is moving toward the east near 5 mph (7 km/h). A slow motion toward the east and then north is expected through Thursday night. On the forecast track, the center of Debby is expected to slowly move away from the coast of Georgia and South Carolina tonight, continue to drift offshore through early Thursday, and then move inland over South Carolina on Thursday.
Debby is expected to produce potentially historic storm total rainfall of 10 to 20 inches, with maximum amounts of 25 inches, bringing areas of catastrophic flooding across portions of eastern South Carolina and southeast North Carolina through Friday. From central South Carolina to the Upstate of South Carolina, northward into Southwest Virginia, portions of the Mid-Atlantic States, western and northern New York State into Northern New England, 3 to 6 inches with local amounts to 8 inches, are expected through Saturday.
Storm Team Chief Meteorologist Joel Barnes Facebook: @JoelBarnesWeather Twitter: @JoelBarnes13 Instagram: @joelbarnes13
