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Heat wave expected to hang around for a while




It looks like another week of high temperatures well into the 90s and heat indexes of more than 100 degrees at times, with the driest weather coming for the middle portion of the week, and then rain chances are expected to go back up to 40% by the weekend.

We are currently into what is normally our hottest time of the year and, temperatures are soaring into the 90s across the state this week, so I thought I would review the hottest day to ever go into the weather record book.

In August 1930, the temperature reached 111 degrees in both Lebanon and Carthage. The highest temperature ever recorded in Nashville was 109 degrees June 29, 2012. That was the day the temperature hit 103 degrees on the Cumberland Plateau. The record for Murfreesboro is 109 degrees and 108 degrees in Dickson. The hottest temperature ever recorded in Tennessee was 113 degrees at Perryville in west-central Tennessee on Aug. 9, 1930.

On Aug. 2, the ringed planet Saturn will be brighter than any time of the year and visible all night long. The best time to see it will be from midnight until 2 a.m. in the southeastern sky. A medium-sized or larger telescope will allow you to see Saturn’s rings.

Steve Norris is a weather guru. Send him an email anytime with questions or comments to weather1@charter.net.

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