Adios To A Dry September

Thanks to Daniel Siller for sending this beautiful picture of The Southern Belle below the Hunter Museum. (By the way Daniel is a foreign exchange student at Red Bank High School from the Czech Republic. And he's really enjoying his stay in the Tennessee Valley.)
This is a great shot on a crystal clear September evening. Much like the way we'll wrap up the month tonight.
September has been warm and dry in Chattanooga.
We saw a dozen days with highs at or above 90. That helped push the monthly average temperature to about 4 degrees above average.
Rainfall for the month was 2.4" below normal. In fact, this was the third driest September in the last 10 years.

1. .62" in 1999
2. 1.47" in 1998
3. 1.92" in 2005

This morning we woke up to temperatures ranging from 46 in Dayton, Athens, and Lakesite to 52 in Chattanooga. The last time we were this cool in the morning was May 26th when the official low in Chattanooga dropped to 50. A couple of times this summer we had highs in the 70s, but those were cloudy and rainy days. The last time we had full sun and highs only in the 70s was May 25th when the official high was 74.
We should have sunshine from start to finish today with highs into upper 70s this afternoon. Fair to partly cloudy skies Saturday and Sunday with highs in the low to mid 80s. Enjoy a great weekend ahead!