A beautiful weather pattern is setting up this week with the potential for heavy rain, strong wind and isolated strong to severe storms the weekend ahead!

We start the morning off with an array of temps thanks to the morning clouds. Where we have clear skies, temps have fallen into the 30s. But, where we have the clouds, temps are much warmer.
The skies will clear giving us plenty of sunshine this afternoon. You folks in the mountains will have the clouds linger a bit longer, keeping the temps a little cooler. Either way, it’s going to be a warmer day. Highs top out in the low to mid 60s.
Grab the sunglasses!

After today, temperatures will warm to 10°-15° above average for this time of the year!
High pressure is the name of the game. That’s going to allow our highs to warm into the low to mid 70s.
Despite warming temperatures, we do have a little wave that will roll our way on Thursday. This will bring us more bark than bite. Meaning… we’ll have mostly cloudy skies with very light rain thanks to a dry low level of the atmosphere.
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A strong low pressure system is expected to form on the eastern side of the Rockies. It’s expected to be so strong that the big dogs from NOAA have already issued ‘advisory’ graphics displaying what potentially could happen.
Let’s dive into the details….
This low is expected to drop to near hurricane strength pressure. We’re looking at this to happned through the day on Friday. Because of the strength being forecast, the folks from NOAA have issued graphics talking about the intense rain that will be associated with this storm. But, it goes above and beyond that. We already have a risk for severe weather Friday through Sunday. And yes, that does include us here in East Tennessee. We are also looking at the heavy rain potential, so the RISK FOR HEAVY RAIN graphics have been issued as well. Then we talk about the wind. Because this storm will be so strong with very low pressure, it will produce a huge wind field!
Make sure to check back in this week.

Looking past the 7 Day Forecast, the Climate Prediction Center has issues a forecast based on probabilities.
These maps don’t show you how far above or below, but rather an idea of how strong the signal is.