FORECAST HIGHLIGHTS:
- - Comfortable mornings (60s) continue this weekend
- - Still warm in the afternoons (90s)
- - Humidity stays low into the start of next week
- - Meanwhile, Helene continues to dump rain across the Appalachian Mountains (more on that below)
FORECAST DETAILS:
Made it to the weekend!
While still a hot start, drier air will make for more pleasant Friday night plans with temperatures falling into the 80s and eventually the 70s under clear skies.
Comfortable mornings followed by warm afternoons will be the theme this weekend as low humidity continues. Lows in the 60s (some 50s in the Hill Co.) will lead in plenty of sunshine and highs in the mid-90s. Still warm, but at least we don’t have to deal with a heat index!
Humidity will stay on the low end into the start of next week before a slight uptick ahead of the following weekend.
HELENE UPDATE:
Meanwhile, Helene made landfall late Thursday night as a powerful category 4 hurricane along the Big Bend region of Florida.
It has significantly weakened since moving inland, but continues to dump inches of rain across and near the Appalachian Mountain range.
Flash and river flooding continue this evening, with more rain expected throughout the upcoming weekend before the remnants of the system finally move east early next week.