Hot Forecast for Wednesday Too

Weather Update – 11:00 p.m. – Tuesday, July 9th

Scattered showers and thunderstorms continue to linger in West Tennessee for a little while longer. Over the next few hours they’ll continue to dissipate but not after leaving some areas soaked from heavy rain! There’s a chance for more pop-up thunderstorms tomorrow to go along with a hot forecast.

TONIGHT
After the showers disappear, expect partly cloudy skies to become mostly clear overnight with our low temperature reaching the mid 70s. Some patchy fog will be possible early on Wednesday morning but shouldn’t be overly dense or widespread.

Wednesday will still be hot with high temperatures in the low to mid 90s, but with a higher chance for showers and storms compared to the first couple of days of the work week. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy downpours and frequent lightning so stay weather aware! The humidity will make it feel like the triple digits tomorrow, so a heat advisory has been issued for all of West Tennessee from late tomorrow morning to early evening.

A low pressure system that affected West Tennessee last weekend with showers and thunderstorms has moved south into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of the Florida panhandle. This area of low pressure has a 90% chance to become a tropical cyclone now that it is over warmer waters in the next 48 hours. The exact tract of the system is unknown at this point, but models do vary and there is a chance that it will make landfall somewhere on the Louisiana coast in the next few days. Stay with WBBJ 7 Eyewitness News on-air and online for the latest forecast.

Tom Meiners
Storm Team 7 Chief Meteorologist, CBM
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