by Steve Norris, Smith County Insider Weather Correspondent
Friday we will see temperatures climb into the low 70s and we will be able to sneak in a pretty good day before more showers and thunderstorms come back late Friday night and continue through Saturday. Looks like Sunday will be the best day of your weekend although it will be cooler with highs in the low 60s.
Highs will be around 70 to 75 for much of next week. This next system will push our rainfall for the month into the above normal category and that will mean we have seen above normal rainfall for 7 consecutive months… that is pretty amazing!
We will continue to be in our tornado season until about mid May and then the heat and humidity begin to take over. It is looking like we are in for a Hot Summer according to the upper air weather pattern that I am seeing, a good year for comparison would be 1998 and that year we had 90s and near 100 off and on from June through September.
The Hurricane season is also looking above normal and that could be a real problem with Covid-19 making it very difficult to set up Hurricane shelters and continue social distancing and many supplies could be even harder to find than usual.
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Steve Norris got his first job at 18 years old doing radio weather. Steve does forecasts for several radio stations and newspapers, and he serves as a severe weather meteorologist for some city governments in the Middle Tennessee area. Steve first became interested in weather when his grandfather bought him a thermometer when he was 10 years old. He has been loving weather for over 40 years.
If you need weather data or have any weather-related questions or comments, you can reach Steve Norris anytime at weather1@charter.net.
