If you click on the 7 day forecast above, you’ll see that we are in for a great weekend, with cool nights, and sunny, pleasant days. Check out the are area football forecasts:
Archive for October, 2005
Cool Start, Nice Afternoon, Great Weekend!
Friday, October 28th, 2005One of the Driest Octobers Ever
Thursday, October 27th, 2005Only a few drops of rain have fallen this month:
And it looks like it could be the 2nd driest October on the record books:
You can find all this info on a cool page of the Nashville National Weather Service website which list TOP TENS!
Tropical Storm Beta Strengthens in Caribbean
Thursday, October 27th, 2005Beta strengthened to 50 mph max sustained winds through the morning, and could become a hurricane by tonight or tomorrow. You can definitely make out the cyclonic (counter-clockwise) swirl on the visible satellite loop. Beta will stay in the southwestern Caribbean and cause problems for Nicaragua and Costa Rica, but won’t impact the United States. It still counts as the 23rd named storm of this record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season.
Midday Wx Update
Thursday, October 27th, 2005
The clouds around St. Louis that I showed earlier today have mostly fallen apart as they pushed toward us this morning. Some clouds have devloped in the early afternoon, but some sun is still out there - you can see it on the visible satellite from the past three hours. Highs will top out in the upper 50s, with low 60s in a few of the usually warmer spots to Nashville’s south. You can check the hourly observations for our area here.
Sunshine for everyone starting tomorrow and lasting through the weekend.
Chilly Morning…Cool Afternoon
Thursday, October 27th, 2005
It’s another cold morning out there. Today we’ll see some middle and high clouds from an upper level trough of low pressure. There are a few sprinkles under the clouds in the Mid-Mississippi River Valley, but that should have a tough time holding together as it swings through the mid-state. Perhaps a few drizzle drops in one or two isolated locations later today, but I doubt it so I’m leaving it out of the forecast. The clouds will keep highs in the upper 50s to near 60, but we’re still looking forward to a weekend filled with sunshine and highs well into the 60s. Our next chance of rain arrives late Monday night into Tuesday, and we could use it. This October will finish as one of the driest on record, with only 0.02″ of rain in Nashville all month long.
Make it a great Thursday!
What’s on the Radar?
Thursday, October 27th, 2005On clear and cold nights, the radar loop looks funky. (See the bulls-eye of red and orange at the top of the blog?) Click here to read an old blog entry to find out why.
Tropical Storm Beta is Here. Well, Down There.
Thursday, October 27th, 2005Tropical Depression #26 became Tropical Storm Beta early this morning in the southwestern Caribbean Sea off the coast of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. It has winds of 40 mph and is moving northwest at 5 mph. The slow movement will bring heavy rains to the mountains of Central America, which isn’t a good situation for that area. Beta is now the record-setting 23rd named storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. Here’s the National Hurricane Center’s predicted path for Beta for the next five days. You can view the infrared satellite loop courtesy of Fred Gadomski and the Penn State e-Wall.
What A Great Picture!
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
I had to show you this picture. It was taken by Jim Crouch of Hendersonville in Provo, Utah as he looked through his car’s side mirror of the Wasatch Mountains. He says, “God made the view, I simply pushed the shutter.”
Thanks for sharing it with us, Jim!
Another Frosty Night With A Freeze Again In The Outlying Areas
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005Check out some of these temps this morning. We’ll see similar readings Thursday morning with extensive frost.
Lebanon: 31
Brentwood: 31
Murfreesboro: 30
Springfield: 29
Columbia: 31
Lewisburg: 29
Pulaski: 30
Waverly: 30
Waynesboro: 29
Sparta: 29
An upper level trough of low pressure will bring some mid and high clouds into the area tomorrow, keeping highs in the upper 50’s to near 60.
A Day in the Life
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005If you’re looking for today’s forecast, check it out here.
Woke up, fell out of bed…dragged a comb across my head
I couldn’t get this Beatles tune out of my head this morning. I’m not complaining, in my opinion it’s their best. I figured…why not write about what happens during “a day in the life” of a morning meteorologist?
12:45am…Get up, try not to fall out of bed. Wake up while showering. With shorter hair there’s no reason to drag a comb across my head.
1:30am…Take Lola for a quick trip outside.
1:45am…Make the drive from south Nashville up Nolensville Road to News 2. You’ll see a lot of interesting folks on this route this early in the morning, especially on the weekends (late at night for them).
2:00am…Get to work, make a big bowl of oatmeal and start forecasting. That can take 30 minutes on an easy day when the long range forecast isn’t changing, but can occupy over an hour when the forecast is “tough”. Churn out the seven day forecast and various high temperature maps for the show.
3:00am…Send out the Personal Predictor e-mail. (Have you signed up?)
3:15am…Record the phone forecast (615.259.9576) and enter the forecast for wkrn.com. Work on a blog entry or two if time allows.
3:35am…Spend some quality time in the make-up room with Heather. It’s not very manly, but a fact of life with all of the bright studio lights. I try to help the situation by keeping my make-up in a little bag that used to hold my ski tools, ski wax and edge sharpeners, but who’s kidding…
3:45am…Work on the weather ticker that scrolls along the bottom of the screen during the show. Three parts to the forecast for seventeen different towns means a lot of fine-tuning to Nashville’s predicted weather.
4:00am…Tape the morning video for the Nashville Wx Channel (digital cable channel 185 and high definition channel 2.2)
4:15am…Record our radio forecast with Neil for Oldies 97.1 FM.
4:20am…Enter the today, tonight and planner forecasts into our chyron system (they’re the graphics we lay on top of the News 2 City Cams).
4:30am…Laugh while I watch Neil and Heather make a mad dash for the anchor desk, usually with seconds to spare before the start of News 2 This Morning.
7:00am…The show is finished! I used to think that our hour-long show on the weekend mornings was long. The weekday morning show is a marathon but surprisingly it flies by, especially when there’s rain or snow on Storm Tracker or big weather changes to talk about.
Through 9:00am…Done with all of the weather hits for Good Morning America and our morning news cut-ins.
Through 10:00am…Lots of e-mails and more blog entries as they come to me. Plan out school visits as the requests come in. Eat lunch while the newsroom has their morning meeting.
Going to bed at 5:30 or 6 in the afternoon isn’t that hard when you skip out on naps through the work week. Every once in a while no naps catch up with me…yesterday I conked out at 2:30 in the afternoon while watching a movie and didn’t wake up until 8:30pm! It’s always fun when you wake up, freak out wondering if it’s today or tomorrow morning, and then set your alarms before going right back to bed. On a more interesting note and back to the title of this entry…I found a site with more than I could ever hope to know about the closing track to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Beatles fans, enjoy.
