Early morning temperatures are in the 70s, but won’t stay there for long. Temperatures will approach 90 by midday and reach the lower and middle 90s this afternoon. Lots of humidity to boot. A large cluster of thunderstorms is over Missouri to start the day and that will mean sunshine mixed with high cirrus clouds this morning, especially northwest of Nashville. Otherwise we’ll be partly cloudy and hazy. The humidity is back and will linger into early next week until a front moves across the area. I’ll have more on that front in an entry a little later this morning. There may be an isolated afternoon t’shower today or tomorrow but I think the better rain chance holds off until early next week.

Morning temperatures are mainly in the 60s, but this afternoon we’ll crank up the heat and humidity. Lower to middle 90s will feel more like middle to upper 90s because of the mugginess. Expect plenty of sun today, with some fair weather cumulus this afternoon. Small afternoon thundershower chances (around 20%) are back in the forecast this weekend. A slow-moving front will bring better thundershower chances on Monday and Tuesday. As long as the front clears Tennessee by Wednesday we’ll have nice weather for the middle and end of next week. Every once in a while fronts can stall and get hung up over the area, so we’ll watch for that possibility in the computer models over the next few days. By the way, the tropical activity I mentioned yesterday is now Tropical Depression #5. We’ll watch this one closely, as the forecast track takes it to the Gulf of Mexico by the middle of next week.

The weather today couldn’t be better, in this weather guy’s humble opinion. Dewpoints are in the 50s and lower 60s across the area. Afternoon temperatures will be typical for late August, in the upper 80s to near 90. No shortage of sunshine for the next couple of days. On the visible satellite loop you’ll see clouds across the Deep South; those are what’s left of the surface front that moved across Tennessee earlier this week. Temperatures late tonight and early Thursday morning will be cool and comfortable. Assuming the forecast pans out for Nashville, we’ll dip into the 60s for the first time all month (our last morning low in the 60s was back on July 30th). Enjoy the day!

We’ll enjoy dewpoints in the low 60’s/upper 50’s this afternoon and despite temperatures slightly above normal (normal:87, today:90) the lower humidity will make outdoor activities more enjoyable. Next couple of days good weather for the Wilson Co. Fair or the start of Celebration down in Shelbyville (I’ll be down there live this Friday morning for the country’s largest horse show). Expect dry weather to last all the way till Saturday or Sunday, by Friday however we’ll have the return of summer humidity as the winds turn to the south. Here are the forecasted highs for the day:

Tropical Storm Debby has 45mph winds and still for out in the eastern Atlantic; it will likely become a hurricane by Saturday, might threaten Bermuda by early next week.

If you live near a working farm you might have noticed this years’ corn crop is starting to harvest; most of the big corn producing counties in Tennessee are out west in the delta soil, Robertson county is the biggest producer in middle Tennessee. Corn is not a big crop in the Volunteer state; about 650,000 acres planted this year, Iowa plants about 12 MILLION acres.