Good Sunday everybody. We are wrapping up the weekend on another pleasant temperature note with readings staying below where they should be for this time of year. The cooler than normal readings have been rather common for the past few weeks and that trend looks to carry us into much of the upcoming week.

Temps today will hit the upper 70s and low 80s again under partly sunny skies. We will see more clouds today than what we had Saturday as an area of low pressure works across the Tennessee Valley. This should throw enough moisture into the state to produce a scattered shower or thunderstorm later today into Monday. The higher chances will be across the east and southeast.

Similar high temps will be noted for Monday into Tuesday.

One of the driving forces in our recent run of below normal temps has been blocking across Greenland. This -NAO ,as it’s known, will begin to break down late this week. I find it interesting that all the models still hold on to lower heights and a baggy trough across the eastern part of the country. Check out the European Model 500mb Height Anomaly Forecast…

Let’s take that one step further by using the GFS Ensembles 11-15 day…

There is still no blocking over Greenland, but the lower than normal heights continue across the eastern half of the country. If the above maps are correct, it is going to be awfully hard to get any sustained hot weather across our part of the world before this month is over.

Have a great Sunday and take care.