WEATHER
Showers and a few storms formed to the east and south of Nashville this afternoon — I had a Facebook message from Warren county reporting over an inch of rain this afternoon! Those showers will fade quickly after sunset, leaving us with a warm and increasingly muggy night. Temperatures will drop to around 70° by early Thursday morning:
We’ll warm up quickly though, mostly to the mid to upper 80s again Thursday afternoon:
The humidity will be much more noticeable on Thursday, and that mugginess will be the fuel for scattered showers and thunderstorms from midday through early evening. The exact timing and placement shown on the radar simulation is never perfect, but it gives us a good idea of the overall pattern:
There’s a slight chance of a shower to start off Live On The Green downtown, but I wouldn’t worry about it…just be prepared for the humidity:
Scattered thunderstorms on Friday could be a little bit stronger…the Storm Prediction Center has included us in a “Marginal Risk” (level 1 of 5) for severe weather:
I’m not quite buying that yet, but it doesn’t hurt to stay weather-aware.
Scattered thunderstorms will still be possible Saturday, and yet again on Sunday, but no one day will be a complete washout. Our rain chances will decrease by the beginning of next week, but temperatures will still be below-average for mid-August:
LINKS
The nerd-links are back!
- All of the science and engineering that goes into designing storm shelters has to answer a deceptively complicated question: how do you stop the wind?
- Franklin is first hurricane of the 2017 Atlantic tropical season — the storm will hit Mexico tonight.
- Weird weather in the Pacific Northwest: Seattle is having its longest dry streak on record, and among its longest streaks of 80F weather.
- Students used a GoPro camera and a weather balloon to film a breathtaking ascent into the Earth’s stratosphere.
- Every sunset ends with a green flash. Why is it so hard to see?
- Your solar eclipse glasses could be dangerous — here’s how to tell.
- Eclipse superstitions aren’t just a thing of the past.
- Here’s a new region-by-region guide to climate change in the United States.
- While some countries and automakers are going completely electric, Mazda is focusing on making its gasoline engines much more efficient.
- Scientists have discovered that the planet Uranus’ magnetosphere flips on and off like a light switch — every single day.
- “Natural” doesn’t always mean safe, and “chemical” doesn’t necessarily mean bad.
- Trampolines are more dangerous than you think.
- To spot the puppy who has what it take to guide humans, choose the one who had to work a little harder.
