by Steve Norris, Smith County Insider Weather Correspondent
Showers and thunderstorms are likely through Friday but then chances drop to 50% Saturday and 30% on Sunday and Monday. High temperatures will mostly be in the upper 80s and then dropping into the upper 60s at night.
When the storms come the remainder of this week they will be producing quite a bit of lightning and heavy downpours, there is more cloud-to-ground lightning in Tennessee during the month of August than any other month of the year. We are currently into what is normally our hottest time of the year so I started thinking about our hottest day of all time. Surprisingly it came in June on the 29th of 2012, the temperature hit 109 in Nashville, 110 in Woodbury and 104 to 108 all across the mid state. The highest temperature ever recorded in Tennessee was 113 at Perryville on July 29th 1930. Perryville is in Decatur County near the Tennessee River. The highest U.S,. temperature on record is 134 at Death Valley California, an appropriate name with temperatures like that. Did You know if the Earth didn’t have an atmosphere and oceans the planets daily temperature would be much like the Moon with an average high of 260 degrees and a low of 280 below zero.
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