Thursday, July 3, 2008

Tropical Depression Two; Mother Natures Fireworks Friday


The African wave that I've been talking about for the past two days or so, has finally reached depression stage. The map above shows the NHC's projected track of this depression and they expect it to only reach tropical storm strength, but if that's so, it will be given the name Bertha.
Today for us Mid. Tennesseans, we look to have a mostly sunny sky with possibly clouds building in later on. The 4th is still not looking good for the fireworks and cookouts, but don't cancel your plans, cause the storms/rains will only be spotty, but we do all need the rain.
Nashville: low 90's
Clarksville: upper 80's
Cookeville: low 80's
Columbia: low 90's
Manchester: upper 80's to low 90's

4 comments:

MTWC said...

May I make a comment about your forecast Charles? Just a side note you made a forecast of roughly a 10ยบ difference in high temps between Nashville and Cookeville. Maybe you should shoot a little higher for Cookeville and the Plateau. Climatologically Cookeville is usually about 3-6 degrees cooler than Nashville with our UHI. Anyway, keep up the great work!

-Clay in Nashville

Charles Loring said...

No problem, the models I where looking at though had Cookeville's numbers in the low 80's and one number at 85F, so that's what I was going by. But thanks for the advice.

MTWC said...

Yeah, well anyway just though I'd give you my 2 cents. What models do you use? I use the ewall MOS as an aid to mine but try not to become to reliant on them.

Charles Loring said...

I use, the Penn Sate e-wall models. And then I use the NCEP and GFS models for when we're suppose to get rain.