Good Tuesday, folks. A cold front is sweeping across the state and bringing a few rounds of showers and thunderstorms today. The big news from this front continues to be the blast of awesome air coming in behind it for the rest of the week. As we look farther down the road, we find a pretty active pattern taking shape for the remaining days of August. This is especially true with a big surge in tropical action likely.

Today’s showers and storms are along and just ahead of the front dropping in from the northwest. There’s enough juice for a strong storm and locally heavy rain with this action. The greatest rain threat is along and south of Interstate 64 through the evening…

This same front is going to slow down across the Tennessee Valley as low pressure works along it. This may very well keep some showers and storms going into Wednesday, especially across the south and southeast…

This same system looks to meander across the southeastern part of the country late week into the weekend. That’s when we are likely to see an increase in scattered showers and storms in our part of the world. We may also see another front drop in here from the northwest by Monday…

As all this is happening, the tropics are simmering and may be ready to explode. We currently have two systems likely to develop over the next few days…

Don’t be surprised if we are talking about a tropical system threatening the southeast or gulf coast states in the next week or so.

I will update that potential later today. Make it a good one and take care.