by Steve Norris, Smith County Insider Weather Correspondent
Absolutely beautiful weather to finish out the week with temperatures as high as the low 80s on Friday.
Showers and thunderstorms return to the forecast Saturday and Saturday night and a few of those could be severe due to the warm temperatures. Clearing Skies expected back into our area for Sunday and Monday with highs in the 60s. I am seeing mostly just a chance of scattered showers for Tuesday and Wednesday.
An incredible nine inches of rain has already fallen this month in Northern Smith County. At 7 p.m. on Tuesday, a truck was reported to have been washed off Pleasant shade Highway into the trees along Peyton Creek.
After my article on the coronavirus last week, the big question I was getting this week was if rain can wash the virus away? The answer is no! There is still a lot that is not known about the weather and its effects on the virus but we do know some coronaviruses can survive in water for up to two days, meaning that heavy rain may have lifted the virus off some surfaces only to deposit it onto others. Water alone is not effective at killing or washing away the virus! The only way to effectively wash a surface is to use soap or domestic cleaners in addition to water. Soap molecules can break down a virus shell, destroying the virus.
This week in our evening Sky we continue to have the planet Venus shining brightly directly to the West after sunset, it is joined by a crescent moon also in the Western sky.
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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.
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