Time To Talk Weather

Been a bit busy this week, so my blogging and jogging has been put on hold a bit. My thanks this morning to Jennifer Taylor from Shenandoah Baptist Academy in Cleveland, TN for sending this picture from yesterday's visit. It was a big group with nearly the whole school in attendance.
On Monday I was driving up to Allen Elementary in Soddy - Daisy when the plume of smoke on Walden's Ridge caught my eye. It was late morning and that fire was covering a small area on the side of the mountain. Well here it is Thursday morning and we still have active fires burning on the side of Signal Mountain just above Falling Water. We are now over 3 1/4" below average in rainfall since January 1st. And the prospects for meaningful rain looks grim between now and next Wednesday. Normally March is our wettest month of the year with average rainfall of over 6 inches. So this thing will likely turn around, at least to some degree. But today winds are already breezy and will become quite gusty this afternoon as we climb to around 70 by noon today. Once the front goes through our temps should level off and slowly fall later today. Right now the weekend looks dry and seasonably cool. Chilly mornings Saturday and Sunday in the upper 20s to around 30. Daytime highs into the mid and upper 50s. The pattern may start to shift to a wetter and stormier period after next Wednesday.