Another Shot for Frost Tonight, Warmer Weather Coming this Weekend

WBBJ 7 Forecast Update

October 16, 2024

Joel Barnes,

WBBJ 7 Forecast Update:

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The mountains of East Tennessee picked up snow for the first time this fall and some locations in West Tennessee saw their first seasonal frost this morning. There is a better chance for frost tonight as temperatures are forecast to be a couple degrees cooler tonight than last night. Although it will be cold tonight, each day will be warmer than the previous day for the next week. Rain chances are unlikely for a few days but could be returning by the end of the forecast. Catch the full forecast details coming up here.

After a nice weekend, a cold front came racing through Sunday night and another one moved in on Tuesday, The front brought some clouds, breezy north winds and another drop in temperatures, but not much for any rain. Mid 30s are coming in the middle of the week; that could lead to our first frost of the season for most of us.

May be an image of text that says 'STORM TEAM WEATHER wbbjtv.com TEMPERATURE HISTORY LAST 13 DAYS WED 10/2 WELL ABOVE NORMAL THU 10/3 FRI 10/4 SAT 10/5 SUN 10/6 MON 10/7 ABOVE NORMAL NEAR EARNORMAL NORMAL TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN MON 10/8 10/9 10/10 10/11 10/12 10/13 10/14 BELOW NORMAL WELL BELOW NORMAL HIGH TEMP DEPT FROM NORMAL 79 0 85 7 89 11 90 12 91 14 78 1 78 1 81 84 83 5 8 8 89 85 10 14 READY FOR A COOL DOWN FINALLY?'

THIS WEEK:

After another very nice weekend, like the previous weekend, a cold front came through late Sunday night and dropped temperatures close to 20° on Monday. Highs made it up to around 70° but that is as warm as the temperatures are going to be until Friday or possibly the weekend. Monday night was a cold night with lows falling into the low 40s, but Tuesday night was colder and Wednesday night will probably be colder than Tuesday night. Lows will fall down to the mid 30s in the middle of the week and some of us could even fall down to the freezing mark of 32°. Frost looks likely for most of us in the middle of the week.

May be an image of map and text that says 'STORM STORMTEAM TEAM WEATHER wbbjtv.com STORM TEAM 7 WEATHER FUTURECAST THU 7:00 AM RAIN MIXED Union City 34° Ridgely 34° SNOW Martin 35° Paris 36° Dyersbura 35° ALTHOUGH NOT LIKELY, SOME OF US COULD SEE OUR FIRST FREEZE TONIGHT IN WEST TN IF THE WINDS GO CALM OVERNIGHT Trenton 33° Camden 34° Huntingdon 33° Ripley 35° Alamo 34° Brownsville 35° Covington 36° Jackson 34° Lexing ton 32° 32° Parsons 32° Henderson 32° Memphis 37° Somerville 36° Bollvar 32° Selmer 33° Savannah 31°'

As the front moved through on Tuesday we saw a few sprinkles but we didn’t see any of what I could call rain, maybe a couple spitting showers showed up. There were some clouds the pushed in on Tuesday as the front passed by, but the clouds broke up overnight. A few clouds lingered early Wednesday but we saw mostly sunny skies from Wednesday and that will last through Friday. Highs will reach back into the low 70s on Friday but likely only reach the low to mid to upper 60s on Wednesday.

The winds kicked up on Tuesday as the cold front moved through. The winds were quite brisk and came out of the north between 10-20 mph with gusts as high as 25 mph. The winds weakened a bit on Wednesday but stayed out of the north. The winds will shift to the east on Thursday and turn back to the southeast this weekend, which will lead to the temperatures climbing back up a bit. The humidity will stay low all week long though and that should keep the rain away. We have not recorded one drop of rain in West Tennessee so far for the month of October.

May be an image of map and text that says 'STORM TEAM WEATHER wbbjtv.com THE NEXT 48 HOURS Friday 4:00 PM HAN MIAED Kansas City St. Louis SNOW WARM Tulsa Louisville Charleston Jackson Little Rock Knoxville COLD Raleigh Atlanta Birmingham Jackson Dallas H BatonRouge Baton Rouge THE COLD WILL SLOWLY MOVE OUT BY THE WEEKEND & SOME WARMER WEATHER WILL TRY TO MOVE BACK IN TO WEST TN'

THE WEEKEND:

Like the previous few weekends, the nicest weather of the week appears to be on the way for the weekend. The winds will come out of the south this weekend warming us back into the mid to upper 70s. We should fall short of 80° but some of us will get very close. Morning lows this weekend will still be a bit chilly. Saturday morning we will still be in the low to mid 40s but should be in the mid to upper 40s for both Sunday morning and again on Sunday night. Expect sunny skies for the most part but there will be a few clouds this weekend due to the fact the winds are forecast to come out of the south. We are not expecting any rain this weekend in our area!