Rain Showers & a Few Storms Tonight, Looking Wet for Valentine’s Day

WBBJ 7 Forecast Update

4 hours ago

Joel Barnes,

WBBJ 7 Forecast Update:

We will see some scattered showers this afternoon and early this evening but the main event from this system will not move into our area until around 9pm. There will be some heavy showers and probably a few weak non severe storms along the line as it moves through West Tennessee tonight. The main action will come through Jackson sometime between 11pm-midnight and some winds gusting up to 40 mph will be possible. Large hail or tornadoes are not coming tonight and overall the severe weather threat is very low. There is another system heading our way for the weekend and we have some good news on that front; at least for us here in West Tennessee and we will have it for you coming up right here.

May be an image of tornado, map and text that says 'STORM TEAM WEATHER wbbjtv.com STORM TEAM 7 WEATHER FUTURECAST WED 12:00 AM RAIN MIXED SNOW Aptonville UnfofCly] Unfom Martin Paris Dyersburg The main action will come through Jackson sometime between 11pm- midnight and some winds gusting up to 40 mph will be possible. Trenton Ripley Huntingdon Camden Alamo Large hail or tornadoes are not coming tonight and overall the Covington Jackson Brownsville Lexington- Parsons Henderson severe Memphis Somerville Bolivar Selmer weather threat is very low. Savannah'

THIS WEEK:

We hit 70° again on Tuesday but the next storm system and front will be moving through tonight. The first system this week looks relatively weak but another system is coming this weekend that could be stronger. There is a decent shot the worst of it stays just south of us this weekend, but it is going to be a close call regardless and will need to be monitored as the week progresses. Our Tuesday morning started out in the mid to upper 40s before the humidity increased, warming us up quickly into the afternoon. We saw calm winds overnight but the southwest winds increased during the day. The winds will shift back to the north as the next system will move through Tuesday night.

May be an image of map and text that says 'STORM TEAM WEATHER wbbjtv.con 48 HOUR REGIONAL FORECAST Wednesday 4:10 AM RAIN MIXED sas City St. Louis SNOW Louisville Charleston COOL We will see some scattered showers this afternoon early this evening but the main event from this system will not move into our area until around 9pm. Jackson Little Rock Knoxville Raleigh Atlanta Birmingham Jackson WARM Baton Rouge There will be some heavy showers and probably a few weak non severe storms along the line as it moves through West TN tonight.'

Highs reached the low 70s for some of us and clouds increased as the day went on and a few showers popped up in the mid afternoon hours. But heavier rain and a few storms will return for the majority of us in the late evening and last into the nighttime hours before wrapping up before sunrise on Wednesday. Wednesday will be around 15° cooler than Tuesday behind the cold front. Any showers on Wednesday should be gone early in the day and the clouds will break up later in the day as well and clear out some. Highs will only reach the mid 50s on Wednesday and fall close to freezing again by Thursday morning. The north winds on Wednesday will shift to the east on Thursday and that will help keep the temperatures down a bit with highs making it up to the upper 50s on Thursday. Expect another partly cloudy day and night.

Friday night lows will start out around 40° as some clouds are forecast to move in Thursday night. There could be a stalled up front developing later in the day that could produce a few showers, but rain chances are currently only 20-30% for Friday. Friday highs will reach the low 60s and Friday night lows will dip to the low to mid 40s to start the weekend. The winds on Friday will slowly shift to the southeast by Friday allowing the humidity to climb some just in time for the weekend.

THIS WEEKEND:

There is a decent shot for some storm activity this Valentine’s Day weekend in the Mid South and maybe here in West Tennessee. As of now, the bigger threat for severe weather looks to be just south of the Tennessee border but if the position of that low shifts even a little bit to the north, it may become a bigger problem for us and we need to watch it closely this week as the system develops and gets closer to our area.

May be an image of map and text that says 'STORM STORMTEAM TEAM WEATHER wbbjtv.com .com EXTENDED FUTURECAST SAT 7:00 AM RAIN MXED Union City 45° SNOW Ridgely 45° Martin 44° Paris 43° Dyersburg 46° There is another system heading our way for the weekend and we have some good news on that front; at least for us here in West Tennessee Trenton 46° Hunting don 45° Camden 45° Ripley 46° Alamo 46° Coving ton 47° Brownsville 46° Lexing ton 46° Jackson 46° Parsons 46° Henderson 46° Mem phis 51° Somerville 49° Bolivar 48° Selmer 49° Savannah 47°'

Highs on Saturday will make it up to around 60° and possibly the mid 60s depending on where the warm sector sets up from the weekend’s area of low pressure. The winds will come out of the south or southeast on Saturday but will move back to the northwest on Sunday as the system clears out. Expect a mostly cloudy weekend with only a few peaks of sunshine on Saturday and even lower chances for sunshine on Sunday. Saturday night lows will fall down to the mid to upper 40s again, depending on that warm sector associated with the incoming system. Sunday will be a little cooler with highs in the mid 50s.