Weather

WEDNESDAY WEATHER ⛈️ Rain today, with a high of 69°. More rain tonight, with a low of 50°. It won’t rain all the time, but it will rain at times. Rain chances will begin to diminish early tomorrow morning. Up to half an inch of additional rainfall is possible today and tonight.

☀️ THE REST OF THE WEEK: Rain will move out early in the day Thursday, though mostly cloudy conditions will continue. Temperatures will top out only around 62° on Thursday and drop to around 40° Thursday night. Friday will be sunny with a high near 70°.

🌤️ THE WEEKEND: Saturday will be mostly sunny with temperatures in the mid 70s. There’s a 50% chance of thunderstorms on Sunday, and rain chances will continue Sunday night.

FURTHER OUT: Rain chances will continue into Monday, then much of next week should be dry before another storm system impacts our area towards the end of the week or next weekend. For the extended period, the GFS model continues to show some pretty significant rainfall for our area, while the ECMWF model keeps the heaviest rains far to our south, over parts of Alabama and Georgia.

💧 RIVER CONDITIONS: The Big South Fork River is running about 300 cubic feet per second (cfs), which is a flow more reminiscent of mid-summer than late-spring. Further upstream, Clear Fork is just about 90 cfs, also a summer-like flow. Both values are well below the 25th percentile mark for this time of year. Water clarity is good, and water temperatures are topping out around 63° during the peak of afternoon heating. Some modest increases to streamflows are likely throughout the day today. For paddlers, the National Park Service maintains a description of river levels here: https://www.nps.gov/biso/planyourvisit/riverlevels.htm