UC Faces Hottest Week Of The Summer

The National Weather Service said this week may turn out to be the hottest week of the summer.

Nashville-based Meteorologist Alyssa Clements said temperatures will range from 95 to 100 the next several days. She said high pressure over the region combining for warm temperatures and no rain.

“It looks like Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday all feature high probabilities of reaching 100 to 102 degrees,” Clements said. “That’s above normal for late August. Typically we’re sitting in the nineties so we are several degrees of what we should be.”

The good news, temperatures will cool this weekend with the chances for rain increasing. Clements said it will not be enough rain to change our increasing dry pattern.

“We are in a drought right now, most of Southern and Eastern-Middle Tennessee has been abnormally dry to experiencing moderate drought conditions this summer,” Clements said. “Unfortunately this dry pattern that we are in does not help anything.”

“Typically areas of high pressure in the summer, they’re very very common. Most of the time they’re centered over like the Texas, Oklahoma region,” Clements said. “But this week that high is building directly overhead and that’s making our temperatures directly go up.”