Well...

http://www.snowmanwx.wordpress.com/ I will be continuing a personal weather blog, but as far as Volunteer Wx, that will be coming to an end. I do not have as much time to post daily forecast and such. I will however continue to post daily discussion when the weather is interesting as well as posting pictures and fun weather stories and maybe even more off topic things such as Nashville Predators discussions, political discussions. Volunteer will be left up for quite some time however. Thanks to all who have commented and interacted over the past several years and made Volunteer Weather worth it.

Rainy Forecast

Showers are starting to push into Middle Tennessee from the west this afternoon. Rain will continue to push into the mid-state into tonight. Some of that rain could be heavy at times and some isolated flash flooding could occur, especially along the Alabama-Tennessee border. Temperatures tonight for the most part will stay in the 50's because of the cloud cover and rain. A good chance of showers will continue through Thursday. Temperatures will stay below normal and drop even lower heading into the weekend. Would not be shocked to see some locations receiving a frost at some point this weekend. Some models are even painting a few wet snowflakes on the map as you travel up into the mountains of east Tennessee. Doubt that will come to pass, but a signal that winter is just right around the corner.

Fog This Morning

Overnight: Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 58. Calm wind.


Tuesday: A 50 percent chance of showers after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 64. Calm wind becoming northeast around 5 mph.

Tuesday Night: Rain. Low around 56. East northeast wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.

Forecast Courtesy of NWS.

More Rain and Cold

As you can see by checking out the latest seven day below from NewsChannel 5 Weather, a rainy and cool week is in store for all of Middle Tennessee. A frost saturday night/sunday morning is quite possible for the mid-state as much cooler weather embraces the area.

Upper Plains Snow

A low pressure system will bring the first snow for some across the upper plains this early week. A good swath of one to three inches could fall across locations such as South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Below is a map from AccuWeather.

Southern Tn FFW

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM CDT MONDAY THROUGH



MONDAY AFTERNOON...


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A


* FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR A PORTION OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...


INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING AREAS...FRANKLIN TN...LINCOLN AND


MOORE.


* FROM 4 AM CDT MONDAY THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON


* A WARM FRONT WILL APPROACH NORTH ALABAMA OVERNIGHT BRINGING


WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAINFALL TO THE AREA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN


1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON. THIS


RAINFALL...COUPLED WITH RECENT HEAVY RAINS ACROSS THE


REGION...WILL INCREASE THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING.

Storms Today, Interesting Long Term

Middle Tennessee
Forecast Discussion
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Today...
The storm prediction center has most of the area west of interstate 65 under a slight risk of severe storms later today into this evening. This will be something we will have to watch throughout the day. High temperatures today will top out in the low to mid seventies for most areas. Tonight low temperatures will stay in the mid fifties due to cloud cover.

Wednesday-Friday...
Things will begin to clear out on Wednesday, however, temperatures will remain quite cool with most areas staying in the upper sixties. Lows on wednesday drop back into the fourties. Thursday will bring a nice rebound in temperatures as they soar to near eighty. Lows on thursday will also stay in the mid sixties. The rain and storms return in time for Friday however as temperatures continue to remain warm.

Saturday-Monday...
The weekend should stay mostly dry with highs in the sixties and lows in the fourties. A few showers look to move through on Columbus Day. Temperatures into next week will be quite tricky. As we get closer to that time frame, we will have a better idea of what to expect, but some modeling is showing the first real potential frost/freeze situation. This will be something to watch carefully as the growing season may soon be coming to an end a little early this year.

Snowman 2:40am