Weather

WEDNESDAY WEATHER: 🌦 Thunderstorms will once again be likely this afternoon.

Sunrise/Sunset: 6:31/8:57
Normal Temps: 86°/64° (Records: 94° in 2024, 49° in 1967)
Year-To-Date Rainfall: 38.5" (Normal: 33.7")

🌩️ DETAILS: Our weather today will be very similar to our weather the past several days: mostly sunny skies with a 60% chance of afternoon thunderstorms and temperatures topping out around 90° during the afternoon hours. As has been the case likely, any storm that develops could present heavy rainfall that causes some localized flooding, but it’s impossible to know very far in advance where these strongest storms will form. The same weather will hold true tomorrow, as well.

🌩️THE WEEKEND: Thunderstorms may increase in coverage this weekend, with a 70% to 80% chance of rain each day Friday, Saturday and Sunday. High temperatures will remain in the mid to upper 80s. Friday may see the most widespread thunderstorm activity, due to a weakening tropical system that is expected to dissipate after washing ashore along the Gulf coast, combined with a frontal boundary that is expected to stall out over the Ohio Valley. This increase in storm coverage may persist into Saturday and Sunday, as well. Despite these conditions, the best moisture will be to our north, across the Midwest, where several inches of rainfall may occur over the next several days.

🥵NEXT WEEK: Hot, humid weather with abundant moisture that creates daily chances for thunderstorms will continue next week, with above-average temperatures likely across much of the nation, including here in Tennessee.

🛶 RIVER CONDITIONS: Streamflows were rising to slightly above normal levels for this time of year yesterday afternoon, due to thunderstorm activity in the headwater regions. The Big South Fork River was flowing around 400 cfs at Leatherwood Ford west of Oneida, and Clear Fork was flowing around 60 cfs at Burnt Mill Bridge near Robbins. The rain activity had a cooling effect on water temperatures, dropping them to around 81° — about four degrees cooler than peak afternoon water temperatures 24 hours earlier. Stream conditions will remain very dependent on where thunderstorms develop over the next several days, and difficult to forecast with certainty.