Weather

After a dry start to the week, it appears that a lot of rain is possible for the middle part of the week. We’ll take a look at it in today’s Tri-Cities Weather Blog Forecast!

There was a little rain earlier today, when I’d figured it was to happen in the afternoon. Late morning is when it happened, and now the sun is out, with no rain at nearly 5 PM as this is written. A cold front is going to bring us windy conditions, rain and thunderstorms for much of the middle of the week. Here’s the outlook for a quick glance at things:

• Tonight-Mostly clear skies. Low 45.
• Tuesday-Partly cloudy and windy, maybe a few showers late. Highs near 80. Chances for scattered showers increase tomorrow night, as lows drop to 57.
• Wednesday-Cloudy skies, scattered showers and thunderstorms. High 74.
• Thursday-Cloudy and windy with scattered showers and storms. High 66.
• Friday-Mostly sunny, high 68.

A cold front is currently nearing Chicago, and while it normally wouldn’t take too long for that to get here, it looks like it won’t arrive until early Thursday morning. That will extend rain chances, and possibly a bit of flooding, for Wednesday and Thursday.

It looks for the most part that tomorrow should be dry, but there are chances of rain west of I-81 late in the day. As we go through the evening hours, those showers will progress from west to east through our area. From there, we’ll see rain and storms moving through from time to time all the way through Thursday as the front moves through.

Keep in mind that some places will likely get quite a bit of rain from this, so if you know of areas nearby that usually flood, keep that in mind. I’m not thinking this is a huge flooding threat, but be aware of that for anything that gets “it rains a little and it floods out” comments…because we’ll get enough to do that for sure.

Meanwhile, there are chances we could see some strong storms as well, so keep that in mind also. Again, I’m not convinced this is a major severe weather threat, but all it takes is one storm with damaging winds (especially after we’ve seen a bit of rain), to cause power outages and maybe see a tree fall on something important. Regular windy conditions start tomorrow, then once scattered showers and storms become possible, those storms will likely increase winds in and around them.

We’ll get a break from everything on Friday with a sunny day and temperatures in the upper 60’s. For the extended forecast, it is possible that we could see a bit of rain on Saturday, and rain chances go up a bit Sunday as another cold front approaches.

So, I think the most interesting weather will be Wednesday and Thursday, and I’ll be keeping an eye on that when it gets here. Updates from here will be on the various radio stations I’m on throughout the Tri-Cities, from Abingdon to Elizabethton to Johnson City. So keep listening!