by Steve Norris, Smith County Insider Weather Correspondent:
Other than a few Isolated showers possible Saturday, sunny and hot will be the story from Friday all the way through the middle of next week. High temperatures will be around 90 to 92 degrees each afternoon. Friday night weather will be great for high school football.
Quite a cooling trend is coming from October 4th to the 9th as high temperatures will only be in the 70s and we could even see a night or two in the upper 40s. Autumn is here so those chilly nights are to be expected.
Sunrise is now 6:31 a.m. with sunset at 6:31 p.m. We only have one bright planet in the evening sky: Jupiter to the Southwest after Dark.
Did you know that heat lightning is actually lightning from a thunderstorm somewhere? Back before radar was invented, folks would be sitting out in the evening on a hot night and they would see lightning flashing in the sky and they would think, “Well, there’s no clouds so I guess it is heat lightning.” When you see it , there is a thunderstorm somewhere, because lightning can be seen from a storm 100 miles away on a clear night. The old wives’ tale that a hot, humid night can generate lightning without a thunderstorm, called “heat lighting,” is exactly that–a meteorological myth. Heat lightning is just normal lightning from a thunderstorm too far away for the sounds of thunder to be transmitted.
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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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