Please note: We make no effort to give you an exhaustive run down on the temperatures, just a general mention of the highs, because it is short-sleeve weather all over.
GULF SHORES
DESTIN
PANAMA CITY
BILOXI
NEW ORLEANS
A 40% to 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms each day tomorrow through the weekend. Highs mostly 85 to 89. The sea surface temperature off shore is generally around 85.
TAMPA
ORLANDO
Showers and thunderstorms, rather numerous at times, Friday through Sunday. Highs in the mid to upper 80s.
CHARLESTON
ATLANTA
A slight chance of a shower or thunderstorm tomorrow afternoon. They will increase in number over the weekend.
JACKSON
SHREVEPORT
Only a few shower or thunderstorms tomorrow for the fourth, but they will increase in number over the weekend, except only a slight chance every day in Shreveport.
DALLAS/FT. WORTH
Sunny, breezy and hot for the fourth. High 96. Mostly sunny, continued hot and dry through the weekend with a high of 98 both Saturday and Sunday.
NASHVILLE
MEMPHIS
A good chance of showers and thunderstorms Friday and toorrow night; fewer in number Saturday and few, if any, on Sunday.
GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK
Partly sunny Friday with about a 1 in 3 chance of a thunderstorm. High near 82, except 70s in the mountains. On Saturday, showers and thunderstorms, numerous at times. The NWS has 60% chance. High near 79. Mostly cloudy on Sunday with a 40% chance of showers and thunderstorms, slightly less in number on Monday. Temperatures both days 63 at night and mid 80s in daytime. In the higher terrain, the low each night will be in the 50s. All data was missing from the park this morning. Yesterday lows were as cool as 38 atop Mt. LeConte, but they are warmer this morning.
CHICAGO
Mostly sunny, less humid and pleasant temperatures for the fourth. High in the 70s, but only in the mid 60s near Lake Michigan. Sunny, pleasant weather will continue Saturday and Sunday.
WASHINGTON
BALTIMORE
Mostly clear tomorrow morning, but scattered thunderstorms by afternoon with some of them continuing Friday night. High 86. Showers and thunderstorms, numerous at times, Saturday.
PHILADELPHIA
A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon increasing some Friday night. A good chance of showers and thunderstorms on Saturday. High temperatures generally in the mid 80s.
NEW YORK CITY
Scattered showers and thunderstorms Friday, mainly in the afternoon. A high of 82. They will become more numerous Friday night increasing to 60% after midnight. Still scattered to numerous thunderstorms on Saturday with a high of 78.
BOSTON
Scattered showers and thunderstorms and turning cooler Friday with a high of 78. The storms will increase in number Friday night. Some thunderstorms could become severe tonight before a cold front arrives, then they will be numerous at times Saturday, but decreasing on Sunday.
DENVER
Sunny and hot Friday. High 95. Isolated thunderstorms Saturday and Sunday (meaning you probably won’t see one). Highs in the 90s.
SALT LAKE CITY
Mostly sunny, breezy and hot tomorrow, although a few isolated thunderstorms. High near 100. Sunday and Monday mostly sunny and hot with a high of 95.
SEATTLE
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, some may be severe tonight and Friday with large hail and damaging winds. Mostly sunny Saturday with a high of 90.
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK (Yogi Bear says “Jellystone Park”)
A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms Friday. Breezy and warmer with lows in the 40s and highs in the 70s.
SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
The Storm Prediction Center continues a slight risk of severe thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight from Ohio and Pennsylvania north eastward into New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and almost all of Maine. A separate slight risk area covers most of the interior of Washington state and Central Oregon. For July 4 (tomorrow), the only slight risk currently posted is for the northern panhandle of Idaho and the west half of Montana. Interestingly, that slight risk includes good old Rogers Pass, Montana where the coldest temperature ever recorded in the USA occurred in late January 1954–a bitter 70 below zero. I still have to write a story about my visit to that impossible to reach site several months later.
