Morning temperatures are in the 60s but we’ll hit 91 degrees this afternoon in Nashville and most other spots. A developing northwest breeze at 5 to 10 mph will keep the humidity at bay (for one final day) but it will still be hot. A few isolated thundershowers are possible later this afternoon as a weak disturbance arrives from Illinois…but most areas will remain dry. More heat and more humidity expected this weekend. Middle 90s with dewpoints in the upper 60s to near 70 degrees will combine to create heat indexes (indices, if you want) in the middle to upper 90s.
Join us on the tube for News 2 This Morning between now and 7:00 am. Big Joe and Jeff are live in Smithville for the upcoming Fiddler’s Jamboree!
Join us on the tube for News 2 This Morning between now and 7:00 am….
Justin, I would never miss News2 This Morning!
I turn the computer and the tv on seconds apart. Surfing the net with news2 on the tube 6 feet away… multi-tasking at it’s best. LOL
Whenever you and Jeff do the weather together I feel like I am getting a 2 for 1 deal. As Servocrow would say.. Woo Hoo!
Have a great Friday all!
That’s some quality multi-tasking Christina!
So true! *smiles*
finally a good things with news2 a summer tour featuring a different city and event…love it alot…need to be sleeping but couldnt since i saw this new thing on the news…keep up the great work news2…..happy 4th everyone!!
Since things are so slow on the blog with no active weather going on, I figured I’d through out a weather question that has bugged me for some time. News2 folks and other’s give your input on this…
Is ball lightning real and, if so, what is it? I think I’ve seen this phenomenon once in my life but have never met anyone who has and when I describe it, they all look at me like I’m crazy. But I remember during a summer thunderstorm at night with a vivid lightning display, I saw a sphere of “fire” fall from the base of the cloud at a rather high rate of speed. When it hit the ground, it literally exploded (or shattered) with sparks going every direction. I don’t know how big it was because I couldn’t judge distance due to the darkness. I’ve always assumed it was ball lightning or I was hallucinating. I wasn’t drunk or anything at the time
Since things are so slow on the blog with no active weather going on, I figured I’d through out a weather question that has bugged me for some time. News2 folks and other’s give your input on this…
Is ball lightning real and, if so, what is it? I think I’ve seen this phenomenon once in my life but have never met anyone who has and when I describe it, they all look at me like I’m crazy. But I remember during a summer thunderstorm at night with a vivid lightning display, I saw a sphere of “fire” fall from the base of the cloud at a rather high rate of speed. When it hit the ground, it literally exploded (or shattered) with sparks going every direction. I don’t know how big it was because I couldn’t judge distance due to the darkness. I’ve always assumed it was ball lightning or I was hallucinating. I wasn’t drunk or anything at the time
Ball lightning is crazy, that’s for sure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning
Justin,
Have you noticed this upper level low that has been persistent 900 miles or so off the coast of British Columbia? Could the flow around it and this persistent southwestern high pressure be an indirect cause of the big western half ridging we have seen for the better part of late spring early summer. It was a horrible year for storm chasing on the plains.
Clarence: we’ve been in a pretty stagnant pattern the last several weeks with a ridge across the western US and a trough in the eastern US. Because the jet stream continuously wraps around the northern hemisphere it’s tough to say what causes what (there’s also a jet stream in the southern hemisphere, but that’s not a concern for us). The three month seasonal outlook from the Climate Prediction Center calls for warmer-than-normal temperatures west of the Mississippi River through September, so it seems like western upper-level ridging will be a dominant synoptic feature for a good while.
One thing I have been wondering,
Looking at the tropical radar on the coast of Florida, there is a cluster of showers that have been persisting for about a day or so just north of Puerto Rico. In the last couple of frames, it might just be my imagination, but i think there is a little swirl to it. WHy haven’t I heard any mention of this yet, since that part of the Atlantic is somewhat favorable for tropical systems in June and July….
It looks like what it says below is that the UL winds are impeding development:
Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook
000
ABNT20 KNHC 301440
TWOAT
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
1130 AM EDT FRI JUN 30 2006
FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC…CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO…
A LARGE AREA OF CLOUDINESS AND SHOWERS CONTINUES OVER THE
SOUTHWESTERN GULF OF MEXICO. THIS ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO MOVE
SLOWLY NORTHWESTWARD OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS…BUT SURFACE
PRESSURES IN THE AREA REMAIN HIGH AND UPPER-LEVEL WINDS ARE NOT
CONDUCIVE FOR TROPICAL CYCLONE DEVELOPMENT.
DISORGANIZED CLOUDINESS AND SHOWERS EXTEND FROM THE SOUTHEASTERN
BAHAMAS NORTHEASTWARD INTO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN FOR SEVERAL HUNDRED
MILES. UPPER-LEVEL WINDS ARE STRONG IN THIS AREA AND DEVELOPMENT OF
THIS SYSTEM IS NOT ANTICIPATED AS IT MOVES GENERALLY NORTHWESTWARD
AT 10 TO 15 MPH.
CLOUDINESS AND SHOWERS HAVE DIMINISHED ACROSS THE LESSER ANTILLES.
TROPICAL STORM FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH SATURDAY.
It is amazing how different the patter has been this summer as opposed to last summer. Last summer was one of the hottest I have seen in quite some time. Most days from June through August, we were officially above 90. I have noticed that the jet stream has been rather flat over Europe and Russia and then it hits the Beiring Strait and goes haywire…lol
Clarence,
Where did u find the jet stream graphic?
Here you go Jeremy…
http://squall.sfsu.edu/crws/jetstream.html
Well the weird weather patterns are not just confined to here….you take my homeland, Wimbledon is up and running and only one day s has been lost to rain…..that is just not right, we are used to the Tennis being interrupted on multiple occasions…..
IT’S HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have heavy rain and thunder at MTSU….
YYYYYYYYYYYIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPEEEEEEE
Okay, this is a question I have been having for a long time.
I know clouds hold water, since that makes them clouds. But why are some clouds black and some are white? I honestly am eager to find out the answer.
I heard in a spotters class a few years ago, the diference in light and dark clouds is that the sun shines over top of the storm clouds thus creating a shadow underneath them. I think that is how that went. One of the mets will know fo sho…
So much for backyard showers/t’storms. I relied on that forecast to stain my deck and it’s raining all over the Nashvegas area now.
Nice pops on the radar..
Mirgatroyd: why not wait until Saturday or Sunday when the mets predicted completely dry weather?
Well they predicted only a 20% chance at that for today. More like extremely isolated showers/storms not scattered storms like we’re having.
And the reason I’m doing it today is because I have to have nearly 5 straight days of dry weather to do it. 1 day to clean it and about 3-4 days to stain it. I have a huge deck and I’ll never have a house with one again. Biggest maintenance nightmare ever.
So, if anyone is thinking of building one, don’t. Build a patio or something made out of composite wood. You’ll spend more money on the front end, but believe me, you will be happy you did without having to maintain it constantly.
My folks were in town last week and seemed excited about putting a composite deck on their new home. No maintenance is just the right amount in my case…
Hey Jeremy, my mom asked me the same question since I’m the weather geek in the family, and had the same answer as Eric, well maybe not word for word. The sun is either set over the horizon or on top of a cloud causing an absense of light under the cloud. Justin should know for sure.
Sorry, you work was busted Mirgatroyd but the forecast was dead on. We cover 50 counties and the t’storms that popped today were most definitely isolated. Nashville just happened to be one of those isolated areas.
Heavens to Mirgatroyd… Now, where have I heard that before?
Well you guys (and gals) are the mets, Lisa, but they appeared to be more widespread and covered more area than I was led to believe. I think you used the term, “backyard t’storms” last night, but I might’ve been dosing off and in a slumber at 10:15. When I think of those type of storms I’m thinking of a smaller area than what broke out today.
I wasn’t expecting as much widespread coverage as these put out. Anyway, I was extremely lucky in that I didn’t get one drop. I live on the Davidson/Wilson Co border and all the storms passed right by. At one point almost all of Davidson Co was covered except for extreme Eastern Davidson Co. I had to quit earlier than expected because of what looked like rain, but what I had already applied had a chance to dry and nothing came down.
Now if we get rain tomorrow or Sun then I am personally going to come down to the station and throw my paint brush at y’all. Heh.
Oh Mirgatroyd,
I think your wrist will be so wore out from all that deck work you won’t have any energy left to throw that paint brush more than a few inches into a can of paint thinner. LOL
Here’s hoping that you have pleasant deck working weather for the next few days!
You are probably right Christina. I’m getting too old to do this and I’m too stubborn to roll it or use a sprayer. Brushing works it in better, but it leaves the back in pain.
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