Well, it’s been a rather decent Weekend no doubt, with 50s and 60s being the story… Today we saw that low cloud deck in S TN burn off and pave the way for another clear day but the pattern is shifting up – in more ways than one – over the next several days and ESPECIALLY by Christmas eve/day. For tonight we build clouds back but largely stay dry, with lows getting back down to the mid-upper 30s on average (though, in Southern Tennessee, we could see a couple of us flirt with freezing temperatures or at least within a couple degrees). The clouds are associated with the warm, moist southerly air returning.
To kick our week off, we have a couple of very similar days – both tomorrow and Tuesday – weather-wise. For our Monday, even though our winds are sharply out of the south, we aren’t warm quite just yet. We’ll max out in the mid-upper 50s for our highs thanks to a pretty stubborn cloud deck, and we’ll also see some scattered shower chances through the day (and night). It doesn’t particularly look like a washout, but some sprinkles on the windshield? Could see that happening at times, no doubt. Tuesday is much of the same, with some isolated sprinkle activity… but notably, Tuesday REALLY begins the warming trend, with our highs looking to be in the mid-60s as a baseline – a real sign of the times as we continue to build that positively spring-like warmth across the area.
Funnily enough, it’s actually from Christmas Eve, into Christmas itself and even the day after that look to be the WARMEST days of the week, with lower 70s each day sticking around. If a high pressure ridge like this one was over us in say, July or August, we’d probably be looking at temperatures in the upper 90s or lower 100s, so it’s lucky that we’re just kicking off December! By Christmas Eve, shower chances also look only stray, and Christmas day itself may even be dry for the bulk of us – it was never looking major as far as rain chances go, but the trend continues to look drier as of current indications.
Certainly it goes without saying that there won’t be a white Christmas this go around, but that’s actually not too surprising if you consider the fact that, for the Tennessee Valley, from a historical perspective, it’s actually more likely to be in the 60s/near 70 than it is to snow on Christmas. Nevertheless it’s abnormal, but for you warmth lovers like myself you will certainly be pleased by the very mild weather that will treat us to a classic warm southern Christmas for 2025.
