The only rain of November so far continues across the southeast for most of the day. It appears that it’ll stay dry from a line Hendersonville to Hohenwald. Tropical Storm Ida came onshore around sunrise on the eastern side of Mobile Bay and immediately started to hug the coast moving east. Though this will be a flooding rain across Alabama and Georgia it only gets into about a third of middle Tennessee before moving east early evening.
If Nashville doesn’t get any rain from Ida today the dry spell continues. No rain the first nine days of November with no rain (after today) back in the forecast until next Monday. This would qualify for the longest dry spell of YEAR. Yes, ever since we rolled into July we’ve had cool and wet weather. All the months since April save for August logged above normal rainfall. The average high is running below normal as well (four months in a row now with October a whopping 5.0 degrees below normal for daily maximum, the largest gap of any month in the last 8 years).
Then suddenly we start in November and it dries out. And stays warm! We’ve yet to get a hard freeze in most of the basin, the growing season got off to an early start and its lasting longer as well. Right now we are exactly 30 days long, a full month of extra garden-growing season.
Not only is there no significant rain in the forecast after today for the next six days there is no shot of cold air either. So the dry weather, and the growing season for many, continues.
