WEATHER
Showers this morning are staying mostly to the west and northwest of Nashville, and they’ll diminish by midday. Temperatures will reach the mid to upper 70s this afternoon:
A better chance of showers and a few non-severe thunderstorms moves in from the west later today. The best chance of rain will be this evening, with the rain diminishing after midnight…but the specific timing is still questionable. The various forecast models have been waffling…because of those model differences, I can’t confidently give you a specific hour-by-hour “here’s where it’s going to rain” forecast. That said, here’s the best estimate based on the data I have to work with:
The HRRR model’s radar simulation matches up pretty well with that estimate:
That’s not exactly great news for the Sounds’ home opener this evening:
If you have tickets to the game, here’s my advice: go to the game! It’s certainly possible that the rain will hold off for the game to be played without much interference from Mother Nature. Even when the best chance of rain heads in, there will still be some breaks in the action, and we’re NOT anticipating a severe weather threat. If it does rain, there’s plenty of room on the concourses to take shelter.
Just an isolated lingering shower in southeastern Middle Tennessee to start the day Wednesday, then temperatures warm back up to the mid to upper 70s:
Low 80s for highs the rest of the week, with just a very slight chance of a shower each day:
Easter Sunday is still looking unsettled — at this point, I think the best chance of rain Sunday morning will be in northwestern Middle Tennessee and the western half of southern Kentucky…then the better rain chances will spread across the rest of the Midstate in the afternoon and evening. But it’s still really early to put much stock in the specific timing that far in the future, so stay tuned for updates.
LINKS
- Someone hacked into Dallas’ weather siren network, and set off all 156 sirens at once.
- Real-time weather data from mobile phones is about to change meteorology…maybe.
- The recently-ended drought in California’s southern Central Valley and South Coast was the worst 4-year dry spell in 450 years.
- After another mass-bleaching event, scientists say the Great Barrier Reef is in a “terminal” stage.
- I get mail from the Heartland Institute all the time, and it immediately goes in the recycling bin because that’s all it’s good for. But when that group mailed climate propaganda to science teachers, one replied with a wonderful, annotated, point-by-point take down.
- I’ll emphasize again for new readers of this blog — climate change has been made into a political issue, but it doesn’t have to be that way. In fact, a prominent climate scientist thinks that a Republican-backed climate proposal has a great deal of merit.
- Seismic data played back at a higher frequency allows seismologists to “hear” earthquakes.
- Well, this is uplifting: life on Earth will run into a “brick wall” in about 500 million years.
- A whopper of an asteroid will make a close approach to Earth on April 19.
- That star with the 7 rocky planets in the “habitable” zone that was recently discovered? There’s good news and bad news…
- Star Trek “replicators” are becoming a reality: NASA will launch a new 3D printer/recycler within a year.
- How close are we really to successfully connecting our brains to our technologies?
- A little luck is essential for success in science.
- An interesting piece: just because technology can extend someone’s life, doesn’t mean it should.
