Chattanooga, Tennessee 7 Day Weather Forecast

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Area Forecast Discussion...UPDATED
National Weather Service Morristown TN
649 PM EST Thu Nov 14 2024

...New AVIATION...

.SHORT TERM...
(This evening through Friday)
Issued at 241 PM EST Thu Nov 14 2024

Key Messages:

1. Drizzle and to gradually come to an end tonight, with some
drizzle potentially hanging on late overnight across portions of
northeastern Tennessee into southwest Virginia.

Discussion:

Well. Today has been pretty dreary, a good day for night shifters
looking to sleep. The good news is the mountain wave wind event is
done, with observations dropping back to much calmer values.
The bummer news is there`s still plenty of stratus out grasping
the area in a gray gloom and that will continue to be the case.
Some holes in the clouds down towards Georgia. We`re
transitioning to the backside of the upper trough, with weak
northwest flow advecting cool 850 temperatures around and over us
through the short term. Heavy cloud cover over much of the area
will persist through the period, with fairly stable temperatures.
Radar still shows some light returns over the northeastern half of
the area, these will produce negligible amounts of rainfall if
any. Drizzle is a possibility tonight across portions of
northeastern Tennessee into Virginia with saturated low levels
underneath the drier upper levels, but only included a low PoP for
that. Otherwise the area will be damp, even without the drizzle.
Some patchy fog possible by morning.

&&

.LONG TERM...
(Friday night through next Thursday)
Issued at 241 PM EST Thu Nov 14 2024

Key Messages:

1. Dry weather is expected this weekend through Monday.

2. Chances for rain will increase for Tuesday into Thursday.

3. Much colder air likely to begin moving in by the end of the
period.

Discussion:

We start the period under a large upper level ridge with broad
surface high pressure in place over the region. This upper ridge and
surface high will control our weather through the weekend into
Monday while gradually shifting east and southeast. It will be dry
with a warming trend through Monday.  High temperatures Saturday
will be near to slightly above normal Saturday, but will be well
above normal by Sunday and Monday.

Confidence in the details for the latter periods suffers as the
model data shows significant spread, but there is general agreement
that more unsettled weather will be arriving with chances for rain
in the Tuesday through Thursday time frame. An upper low will lift
northeast out of the southwestern CONUS tracking across the Plains
into the western Great Lakes Region by Tuesday, then additional
energy will drop in behind it carving out a deeper trough or closed
upper low to our west by the Wednesday/Thursday time frame. The
evolution of this trough and how far east it progresses by the end
of the period is where there is high variability in the model data,
and uncertainty for this part of the forecast is high. However,
while the details are uncertain, chances for rain will be higher for
the Tuesday through Thursday time frame, and a cold front will
likely move through sometime around Wednesday with colder, possibly
very much colder, air pushing in by the end of the long term period
as the upper trough progresses east toward/over our area.

&&

.AVIATION...
(00Z TAFS)
Issued at 637 PM EST Thu Nov 14 2024

Expect MVFR conditions to prevail through the majority of the
period for all sites as an expansive area of MVFR CIGS stretching
across TN and northward into the Ohio valley continues to stream
in. Downslope flow off the Cumberland Plateau could lead to cloud
cover bouncing between SCT-OVC for KCHA especially, but perhaps
KTYS as well. That said, upstream conditions suggest both sites
should have solid MVFR CIGS by 05z-08z, with those conditions
lasting until early afternoon. KTRI should stay MVFR through the
period. Winds will be light, less than 7kt, and generally out of
the north except KTRI which will be WNW.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
Chattanooga Airport, TN             61  48  62  44 /  60   0   0   0
Knoxville McGhee Tyson Airport, TN  57  48  59  43 /  90  10   0   0
Oak Ridge, TN                       57  47  59  42 /  90   0   0   0
Tri Cities Airport, TN              55  46  57  40 / 100  20   0  10

&&

.MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NC...NONE.
TN...NONE.
VA...NONE.
&&

$$

SHORT TERM...Wellington
AVIATION...CD