Drier air moving in...

Scroll to the post below this one for the radar images of a rotating thunderstorm in eastern Tennessee last night.

Here's today's edition of the video...


A cold front is progressing through the region today, and that front will usher in some drier air for us for a couple of days. Highs today will be in the 89-92 degree range for much of the region. The best chance of any storms today will be roughly from I-95 over toward the coast.

We are setting up for some very nice Saturday weather. Look for low levels of humidity and lots of sun....and the chance of rain will be very low. Highs tomorrow in the Piedmont look to be in the upper 80s to around 90.

I will maintain a small chance of a few storms very late Sunday, but it's really looking like Monday is the day with good chance of showers and storms as a disturbance approaches from the west.

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Tennessee Overnight...

A rotating thunderstorm possibly producing a tornado moved through eastern Tennessee overnight last night. Here is a reflectivity and velocity image I snapped when the possible tornado was just west of Knoxville...

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Scattered showers and storms today...

Showers and storms that were over Alabama and Georgia during the pre-dawn hours will be working into the Piedmont later this morning and into this afternoon. Due to the early arrival of the showers and storms, temps in the I 85 corridor will be held down.....look for 80s for highs.

For tomorrow and Saturday, the coverage of showers and storms will be less....probably in the isolated category. Highs will be in the upper 80s and lower 90s for most.

It still looks like better storm chances will arrive again for Sunday and Monday.

See today's video for more on this, plus some tropical talk...

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More heat with scattered storms...

First, some select highs from yesterday around the region...

Charlotte: 96
Greensboro: 96
Rockingham: 100
Laurinburg: 101
Fayetteville: 101
Charleston: 102



It will be another hot day today with highs in the mid 90s for much of the Piedmont...and once again, some of the traditionally hotter spots could see upper 90s or even 100.

Like yesterday, we will likely see some scattered storms fire off this afternoon through this evening, and again, some storms will probably be severe in addition to being prolific lightning producers.

The heat still looks to subtly back down this weekend into early next week with some upper 80s creeping in for many highs.

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Summer arrives today...

Check out this AP photo (Dan Weaver) of the shelf cloud that rolled into Omaha, delaying the Florida/ Vandy game at the College World Series last night.



Summer officially arrives at 1:16pm EDT today, but in terms of the weather, it has been Summer for a while.

Yesterday featured some stifling heat in parts of the region. Check out some of the highs....

Wilmington: 101
Charleston: 102
Columbia: 101
Myrtle Beach: 97

Many locations in the Piedmont will be a little hotter today than yesterday with lots of mid 90s on the board this afternoon. Tomorrow's highs will be much the same.

While I expect a few afternoon storms to fire today and tomorrow, the chance of rain in any one locations is pretty small.

Later this week, a weak cold front will approach from the west, and that will subtly increase the daily storm chances. The heat will also back down a bit for the weekend with some upper 80s returning for highs.

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Hotter with fewer overall storms...

Highs should return to the 90s across the entire region the next few days as the overall coverage of storms will be less than what we had over the weekend. That's not to say the entire region will be dry....I am just not anticipating as many storms as what lit up the radar screen over the weekend.

Later this week another front will slowly approach the region, and at that point, the daily coverage of storms will likely increase again.

Severe weather will likely be a big problem in parts of the Plains states the next couple of days as a potent upper level system interacts with hot and unstable air.

Next week, as we end June and head into July, it looks like the core of the heat in the US will shift to the western part of the country for a while.

See the video for lots more on all of this...

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