The cold front that prompted this afternoon’s rain is splitting Middle Tennessee from northeast to southwest. Nashville is just barely on the cool side of the front (our winds have switched to the north). On the warm side of the front patchy dense fog has developed, so watch out for that in areas east and south of Music City tonight through tomorrow morning. The front won’t move much the rest of the night - a wave of low pressure has developed along the front down around southern Arkansas and will head in our direction tomorrow - so the front will take a while to completely clear the area. For that reason, scattered showers are possible tomorrow. The action should be most widespread during the afternoon, but a spotty morning shower isn’t out of the question. We’ll watch the cold air funnel into Middle Tennessee the next several days…check the seven day forecast for details.

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Some Halloween trivia from the guys and gals at the Nashville NWS (THEY LIKE CAPITAL LETTERS):

WARMEST TEMPERATURE ON HALLOWEEN: 85 DEGREES IN 1950.
COLDEST TEMPERATURE ON HALLOWEEN: 27 DEGREES IN 1980.
WETTEST HALLOWEEN ON RECORD: 2.30 INCHES IN 1951.
0.4 INCHES OF SNOW FELL ON HALLOWEEN IN 1993. THIS IS THE ONLY TIME THAT MEASURABLE SNOW HAS FALLEN ON HALLOWEEN IN NASHVILLE.
TRACE AMOUNTS OF SNOW FELL ON HALLOWEEN IN 1954…1931 AND IN 1930.
LAST HALLOWEEN (2005) THE HIGH WAS 73 AND THE LOW WAS 38 WITH NO RAIN.
NORMAL HIGH FOR HALLOWEEN IS 65 AND THE NORMAL LOW IS 44.
STATISTICALLY THERE IS ABOUT A 28 PERCENT CHANCE OF MEASURABLE PRECIP FALLING ON HALLOWEEN IN NASHVILLE.

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The inbox was full of Halloween pictures this evening. Plenty of good-looking rainbows in the wake of this afternoon’s rain. Thanks to everyone for taking the time to share their shots! I couldn’t post them all but here’s a sample…

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Before you step out the door with your ghouls and goblins…it would still be a good idea to carry an umbrella even if you live in and around Nashville. Although the heavy rain will be southeast and east of Music City, a quick line of light rain will push across area over the next couple of hours before cooler air spills in.

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Many places in Middle Tennessee will deal with rain while trick-or-treating…but other towns will squeeze out dry weather this evening while collecting candy. Check the latest Storm Tracker radar image to see what you can expect.

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Thanks to Davis for filing the previous entry from home on his day off. As expected, scattered showers cover Middle Tennessee this afternoon and will dampen many (but not all) trick-or-treaters this evening. Here’s a link to the latest Storm Tracker image.

Areas south of I-40 are dealing with the heavier showers, especially our southern tier of counties along the Alabama state line. Heavy showers are just starting to push out of Murfreesboro, while another round of rain is moving into western Davidson County for folks in Nashville.

Areas northwest of Nashville (places like Clarksville, Springfield, Paris, Erin, Waverly, Dickson, Ashland City) will have a smaller chance of showers than the rest of the mid-state this evening, but an umbrella is still a good idea. The rest of the mid-state will have to deal with the possibility of wet weather while candy is collected. I’ll have the latest look at the radar on News 2 at 4, 4:30, 5 and 6 this afternoon/evening.

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Blogging from home for an update on the rain:
As of 10:30a am the leading edge of the area of rain was along a line from Portland, TN to Nashville, Franklin, Columbia, and Lawrenceburg. It was moving east northeast at 30 mph. The back edge of the rain was from east of Little Rock to Paducah. The afternoon will remain wet. As mentioned before, Trick or Treaters will have to have some rain gear handy. There is a small possibility that the rain may begin to taper off this evening, but models are showing a weak low pressure center along the front that should trigger additional rain showers.

Justin will be in for Lisa tonight, as he’s the young, single one who doesn’t have a little one to take Trick or Treating (yet). One day!

I’m sure you will see a blog entry from Justin with an update on the rain’s progress soon.

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Trick or Treat weather is a trick; rain in the forecast this evening. Probably not heavy rain, more like light stuff on and off (mostly on) moving in from the southwest. Temperatures not so bad; we’ll be in the upper 60’s my mid-day but temperatures will be dropping at end of day with the rain around. We’ll drop down to around 50 by tomorrow morning. The clouds will be around most of the day tomorrow, even some rain (especially east of Nashville). Colder, drier air moves in tomorrow end of day; we’ll be in the mid-30’s by Thursday morning. November starts with some cooler weather; highs in the 50’s starting tomorrow and sticking around through saturday.

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Parents, have an umbrella or rain gear handy. The good news is that though there will be scattered showers, we don’t anticipate a continuous heavy rain for the Trick or Treaters. It won’t be perfect, but I think that Trick or Treating is still “do-able”. Temperatures will be turning a little cooler during the evening, so have something warm as well as dry for the little ghosts and goblins to put on.

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The above definition came from The National Weather Service’s “Jetstream” an online school for weather. You should bookmark this site. There, you can look up technical meteorological definitions as well as “folklore” weather terms.

After the big warming trend of the weekend and today, we expect one more mild day before colder temperatures return. Highs on Tuesday will be in the mild upper 60s with clouds and scattered showers. But If you click on the 7 Day Forecast above, you’ll see 50s for highs and 30s for lows (20s outlying areas) for the rest of the week.

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