September 15, 2022 #TriCitiesWx Forecast

Well, it’s been quite a while since I’ve done one of these! I’ve been busy these past months moving five radio stations to our new home in Bluff City, so things have gotten crazy. All that said, I figured with NASCAR in town and College Gameday up on the mountain, it might be a good idea to drop in a forecast. So here we go…Tri-Cities first for racing and college football…here’s the outlook on today’s Tri-Cities Weather Blog forecast!

• Tonight-Mostly clear, with some fog in the morning. Low 53.
• Friday-Mostly sunny. High 84.
• Friday night-Mostly clear, low 55 (more on this later).
• Saturday-Mostly sunny. High 84.
• Sunday-Mostly sunny. High 84.
• Monday-Mostly sunny. High 85.
• Tuesday-Partly cloudy, with a small chance of a shower or thunderstorm. High 87.

We’re stuck in a dry weather trend, and with everything going on within a hundred miles or so of here in the next few days, that turns out to be a good thing! Weather should not be a problem at all through Monday, with the exception of some morning fog from time to time. The only exception is a small chance of rain or a thunderstorm on Tuesday as a (very) weak cold front approaches…it may not make it through here.

So, let’s talk temperatures. Many folks will be out either for NASCAR or high school football tomorrow night–I’ll be at Sullivan East vs. Seymour tomorrow night on 96.3 The Possum–and the weather will be perfect! Things should start out as you head out in the low 80’s toward kickoff, and temperatures will drop into the mid 70’s by 8 or 8:30 (halftime for football), and maybe cooling off into the upper 60’s by the time things are done. That low temperature in the mid 50’s will happen early tomorrow morning.

If you’re up in Boone for App State’s game against Troy on Saturday, with College Gameday in town thanks to the big win over Texas A&M this past weekend, prepare for cooler temperatures. Boone is typically 8-10 degrees cooler than the Tri-Cities, barring clouds or atmospheric inversions. That will be the case in the coming days, so mornings will be quite chilly up there! Even getting into the 70s late in the day will be fine, but the wind gusting around atop the mountain can be tough for a chunk of the day. Especially if you go jumping into the duck pond…which is not advised for several reasons!

Regardless of all of that, you can’t get much better weather for September than this! Hopefully you’ll be able to get out there and enjoy it!

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March 24, 2022 #TriCitiesWx Forecast

Hello, all! Here’s a quick forecast to get the blog going for a Thursday evening!

• Tonight-Partly cloudy. Low 38.
• Friday-Mostly cloudy and windy with scattered showers. High 54.
• Friday night-Cloudy and windy with scattered rain/snow showers. Low 37.
• Saturday-A few rain or (mountain) snow showers early, otherwise mostly cloudy. High 52.
• Sunday-Partly to mostly sunny. High 48.
• Monday-Partly cloudy. High 54.

It looks like a cold front moves through on Saturday, and with it will bring enough of a temperature drop to change rain showers to snow for some of us Friday night and into Saturday. Considering the warmth we’ve seen recently, only in the higher elevations should there be accumulation, if there’s any at all.

After that, things clear out on Sunday, with dry and cooler weather to finish the weekend and start the new work week on Monday.

Thanks for checking here for the forecast…happy Friday!

January 2, 2022 #TriCitiesWx Forecast

Happy New Year! I hope yours is a wonderful 2022. Our weather was interesting last night while watching storms, now it gets even more interesting with snow on the way! Welcome to the Tri-Cities Weather Blog forecast for this week!

A strong cold front moved through last night, and was the source of all the rain we had. The big news is the moisture wrapping around the low pressure tonight that will dump a good amount of snow on us. I think the ground is too warm for large accumulations, so it’s going to snow a lot for the amounts that are predicted. Here is the forecast through Friday, with snow predictions therein:

• Tonight-Scattered rain showers, changing to heavy snow at times. Low 28.
  • 1-3″ of snow likely in the Tri-Cities through Monday morning.
  • 4-7 inches of snow likely in the mountains, with isolated spots of 8″ or more.
  • Winter Storm Warning is up for all of our area until 10 AM Monday.
• Monday-A few snow showers early in the day, becoming sunny by the end of it. High 37.
• Monday night-Mostly clear and cold conditions by morning. Low 15.
• Tuesday-Partly cloudy. High 44.
• Wednesday-Increasing clouds, high 48.
• Thursday-Mostly cloudy. A few rain or snow showers during the day. High 44 (but dropping in the afternoon).
• Friday-Partly cloudy and cold, a few snow showers possible. High 32.

Low pressure associated with the cold front that just went through is close enough to bring snow showers in from the north starting tonight. Expect the snow to get started near or shortly after midnight tonight. With temperatures as warm as they have been, it’ll take a bit for the ground to start to take snow without it melting.

However, there will be enough snow to overcome the warm ground temperatures. So what would be in February maybe 6-7 inches of snow will likely be much less than that today. I’ll give the Tri-Cities 1-3″ of snow in the forecast, although folks in Johnson City could see a tick more than that. Folks in the higher elevations will likely see 4 or more inches of snow, with a few spots maybe seeing 8 inches of snow by the time things wind up tomorrow.

After that, things clear out tomorrow afternoon. We’ll have calm weather through Wednesday at that point, with temperatures warming up to around average. Another cold front moves through Thursday and/or Friday, bringing a reinforcement of cold air late in the week.

If you enjoy the snow, I hope you get out in it tomorrow for a little while. There could be travel issues in the morning, so be aware of that going to work and, of course, the school closings that are possible in situations like this. Have a great week!

December 2, 2021 #TriCitiesWx Forecast

Updated forecasts to the weather blog resume during the month of my birthday! It’s still a few weeks out, but I’m absolutely ready for it. Meanwhile, I will endeavor to post more forecasts here each week than I have during a rather tumultuous 2021. Welcome to the Tri-Cities Weather Blog forecast today!

Typically, this weather blog works two ways. I give a preview of the forecast in the first paragraph, a little more detail of what to expect in the second one, then there’s the Outlook. If you don’t have time to read a few hundred word blog, you can get a quick forecast in the outlook each day, a bulleted list of the quick forecast for the coming days. And here it is!

• Tonight-Partly cloudy, with some fog in the morning. Lows near 40.
• Friday-Partly to mostly sunny, and warm. High 68.
• Friday night-Partly to mostly cloudy. Low 42.
• Saturday-Partly cloudy conditions with highs near 60.
• Sunday-Partly cloudy skies also, with a high of 62.
• Monday-Mostly cloudy with rain showers. High 53.

From here on, the weather blog features on the discussion…some more detail on why the weather is doing what it’s doing over the next four or five days. In this instance, we have a cold front moving through tomorrow, with a warm front shortly thereafter. We’ll have a net gain of a few degrees after that, leading to a quite warm day on Friday. That high of 68 is a full fifteen degrees above our average for early December.

We’ll have assorted amounts of clouds for Friday night through the weekend, but we should get a decent amount of sunshine as highs get up to the low 60s on Saturday and Sunday. Late Sunday night, a cold front moves in, and that will bring our best chance of the rain in the forecast through the day on Monday.

Please visit the About page for more about me, my background and meteorological credentials, and the stations where I broadcast. The list is up to five these days: WHCB 91.5 FM (and 103.3 FM in Southwest Virginia), 96.3 The Possum (which is also 870 AM all around and 100.7 FM near Kingsport), 97.3 Love FM (includes 1090 AM in the Tri-Cities and 100.3 FM, also near Kingsport), Truth 104.1 is also WABN and can be located at 1230 AM in southwest Virginia as well. Finally, there’s GOAT FM, our newest station at 790 AM in the Tri-Cities and a much better, cleaner signal at 93.7 FM.

That’s a whole boatload of different places my forecast can be heard at least once an hour! Should there not be a blog here for some reason, I do record a fresh forecast every day on each of those stations above.

Also, I’m lending my voice to broadcasting my alma mater’s high school sports, the Sullivan East Patriots! We were just in Bluff City the other day, as Jacob Harr and I broadcast a thriller between the Daniel Boone and East boys teams, and a big win for the girls from Bluff City also. We have 14 more games we’re planning to broadcast through February, and they’re all on 96.3 FM, with announcements each day on when the next game airs!

Whew. That’s a lot going on! And that’s what’s led to my recent absence from here. But let’s use December as a fresh start, and I’ll be back with a new forecast soon. Have a great Friday!

September 3, 2021 #TriCitiesWx Forecast

The week started with lots of rain, then we’ve changed into cooler weather and sunshine! We’re going to flip that script this weekend, as we start dry and bring rain in on Sunday. Welcome to the Tri-Cities Weather Blog forecast for this weekend!

Let’s start out the forecast with the outlook for the next few days:

• Tonight-Mostly clear. Low 58.
• Saturday-Mostly sunny. High 84.
• Saturday night-Partly cloudy, low 62.
• Sunday-Partly cloudy with scattered showers and storms possible. High 83.
• Monday-A small chance of rain early, then becoming partly cloudy. High 82.

High pressure is located to our northeast, and that’s bringing us such fantastic weather after the low pressure from the hurricane went through earlier this week. So the weekend will start off with a nice Saturday and highs in the mid 80s.

The second day of the weekend will feature clouds on the increase, and a chance of rain and thunderstorms. That’s because of a cold front that will move through during the day. Rain chances continue Sunday night as well, and even into Monday morning for a while. Things will start clearing out once again on Monday afternoon.

There’s the forecast! It looks good for high school football tonight, as I’ll be broadcasting Sullivan East vs. Grainger from Bluff City! Our coverage starts tonight at 6:15, with the pre-game show one hour later, and kickoff at 7:30. Hope you can join us on 96.3 The Possum or online at 963thepossum.com. Have a great weekend…Go Patriots!