As the residents of Nashville experience a bout of summer's temperamental touch, the National Weather Service in Nashville provides a heads up on the fluctuating weather patterns expected this week, with a forecast that includes chances of showers and thunderstorms. The humidity hangs heavy at 100%, accompanied by a dewpoint of 72°F, reflective of the kind of stifling atmosphere that can make even a calm wind feel like a static charge through the city's streets.
Starting today, the promise of rain might catch some by surprise as a slight chance of showers evolves into a more robust chance of thunderstorms after 10 am — patchy fog will have already made its morning rounds before dissipating, meanwhile, the sun wages a tepid battle with the clouds pushing temperatures to a high near 89 with heat index values teasing the upper 90s, the calm wind will eventually settle north-northeast around 5 mph. The evening promises a similar variety, a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms bowing out before 8 pm after which the sky holds a 20% chance of repeating its performance after 5 am, peaceful fog rolling in after midnight to blanket an otherwise restless night will usher us into a mostly cloudy low around 71 degrees.
The rest of the week doesn't stray far from this pattern; Friday's sun plays its own game peeking out from behind mostly cloudy skies, teasing a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms with an anticipated high near 87. When night falls, the likelihood of rain drops slightly to 20 percent under a mostly cloudy banner, and a low again around 71.
Weekend forecasts signal no reprieve for the city of Music; showers are possible before 10 am on Saturday, but the real show starts between 10 am and 1 pm adding thunderstorms into the mix culminating in a likely thunderstorm after 1 pm and as if in a relentless pursuit of dampness, Sunday keeps with a similar script featuring showers and possibly another thunderstorm with high chances of precipitation up to 80%, both days will be partly sunny with highs teetering near 90 and lows lingering around the mid-70s, the wind maintaining decorous somnolence will vary from calm to a soft southern breath around 5 mph.
The beginning of the next week hardly veers off course; Monday and Tuesday are set to present showers and thunderstorms with an imposing 80% and 60% chance of precipitation respectively, temperatures will be ambitious, aiming for the mid-90s as the sun dares to break through mostly sunny skies, nightfall will then concede to a partly clouded respite, lows cradling the mid-70s. Yet, whoever steps out will find themselves in an ambivalent dance with uncertain weather up until at least Wednesday, which promises a persistent 30 percent chance of thunderstorms under another mostly sunny disposition poised to reach highs close to 96 degrees.
