Starting out the morning with cold conditions, but warmer than yesterday. Look for a mostly sunny day today with highs in the upper 40s. Clouds will thicken up for tonight with lows in the lower 30s. Nice warm conditions return for your Wednesday with partly cloudy skies and highs in the mid to upper 50s. Wednesday night expect mostly cloudy skies with lows in the lower 40s.
Extended Forecast Summary:
Most of the area will see some rain by Friday and clearing by Saturday and Sunday with lows in the 30s and highs in the 50s.
Severe Weather Awareness:
Today's Topic: Lightning
What is Lightning?
The action of rising and descending air within a thunderstorm separates positive and negative electrical charges. Lightning results from the buildup and discharge of electrical energy between these positively and negatively charged areas. Lightning charges may reach as high as 100 million volts. This electrical charge is always searching for the path of least resistance to complete the circuit.
Lightning will normally strike the tallest object in the area of the potential discharge. Tall trees, light poles and telephone lines are frequent targets for lightning strikes. Lightning is always a potential killer. Whether the storm is a large spring time severe storm or the more common afternoon variety, it contains this deadly killer. It may strike an isolated tree or an object out in the open, or it may strike you.
Keep in mind that you do not have to be standing directly beneath a cloud to be hit. Lightning may strike many miles from the parent storm. In an average year lightning will claim more victims than tornadoes or hurricanes.
EVERY THUNDERSTORM CONTAINS LIGHTNING.
Lightning Safety Rules—Outdoors
Seek shelter inside a house, large building or an all metal vehicle with the windows rolled up (avoid convertibles).
If your hair stands on end and your skin tingles... lightning is about to strike. Take cover
immediately!
If you can't find appropriate shelter, get down to avoid being the highest point for a lightning discharge. When caught in the open, seek shelter in a low area. Crouch down and cover your head with your hands. If you are with a group of people, everyone should scatter out before crouching.
If caught in a wooded area seek out the area with the smallest trees. Stand at least five feet
from the trunk of the nearest tree to avoid flying bark, should the tree be hit by lightning.
When boating, head for shore and get into a shelter, or vehicle. If caught in a boat, lie
down in the boat with cushions between you and the boat's side and bottom.
AVOID
Large trees, hilltops and other high places.
Chain link fences and any other metal fences like those around ball parks and play grounds.
Motorcycles, scooters, golf carts, small metal sheds, bicycles, tractors and farm equipment that does not have an enclosed metal cab.
Do you know what group of people are most likely to get struck by lightning? It is farmers,
followed then by golfers.
Information provided by: The National Weather Service in Morristown, TN
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