After 8 straight days of 90+ degrees (10 out of last 11) and 14 consecutive days at or above normal…change is upon us! Light northerly winds, mostly cloudy skies and a few rain showers (better chances/more rain south and east of Nashville this afternoon) will cool off all the midstate today. The best part: sunshine returns with the lower humidity for Friday and the weekend! The 7 day forecast is above!

And don’t look now but we are back to almost 4″ of rain below normal for 2005 so far. Won’t take more than a week or two of dry weather to get us right back to where we were six weeks ago!

The National Hurricane Center is thinking Tropical Storm Franklin could briefly become a hurricane before weakening in the north Atlantic over the weekend. There are also two other waves that they think may gradually develop into Harvey and Irene over the next 3-5 days. For more go here: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

Great learning experience for kids here: with the shuttle orbiting Earth you can find its exact location, mission updates and when you can see it go across the night sky here:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/home/index.html

Thank you so much for tomato saving tips…they will be a big help! Need some help again…this time I need you to come up with an official term:

Everyone has heard of the January Thaw, where every January (usually around mid to late month) for some unknown reason the temperatures become uncommonly warm. Well, looking at past years (as I’m known to do occasionally) a found a similar trend. Seems that 6 months from the January Thaw the exact opposite occurs. In mid to late July we see temperatures 5-10 degrees below normal for 5-7 day stretches.

With the cooldown starting today consider the data since 2000:

July 24-28, 2004: Highs in mid 80’s (low of 59 on the 28th)
July 22-31, 2003: Highs 80-83 from July 22-24
July 11-20, 2002: 10 straight days of 80 degree weather
July 12-21, 2001: Another 10 straight of 85-89 highs
July 20-24, 2000: Mid 80’s for highs, mid 60’s for lows

I would like you to help me come up with the term for this, remember it’s called the January Thaw in the winter…post away!

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