As we near closer to the holiday weekend, the heat is on! Today will be almost a carbon copy of yesterday…partly sunny skies with scattered afternoon t’showers (best chance today looks to be east along and east of I-65.) While readings will be in the lower 90’s today, tomorrow could be sultry! Assuming sunshine (the storms to our northwest don’t spread cloudiness in our direction during the day) temperatures have a pretty good shot of getting into the mid 90’s (95 degrees here in Nashville.) You factor in the humidity and wow…a heat index over 100!

How hot could it be? Consider the last 5 years:
Our warmest reading so far this year is 94 degrees.
In 2004, warmest day was 94 degrees.
In 2003, ditto…94 degrees.
In 2002, we got to 97 degrees.
In 2001, 95 degrees.
And in 2000, it was the last time we got to 100 degrees.

So with a forecasted high of 95 tomorrow, we could be looking at our warmest day in almost 3 years! Considering we are doing this in June, it could be one hot summer!
Our record high for Thursday is 106 degrees set back in 1952…no chance for that.

We have the 2nd named tropical system of the Atlantic hurricane season! Last night a cluster of showers and storms in extreme portions of the Gulf organized into Tropical Storm Bret.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
As you’ll see from the forecast track, it is not expected to affect us in any way.

You’ll be hearing a lot more about this during the upcoming weekend, but here’s some updated information on NASA’s “Deep Impact” project:
http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1536_1.asp

I don’t mean to bury the lead, but this struck my eye yesterday…could we actually look like Saturn in the future?
http://www.livescience.com/technology/050627_warming_solution.html

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