Some of the showers and storms that popped up in Cumberland County on Thursday brought a half inch of rain near the Tabor community and a quarter inch at the airport. Storms in East Tennessee were even heavier with two and three-quarter inches in southern Roane County and Northern Meigs County. Scattered storms will be with us again from Friday afternoon through the weekend and much of next week as an active weather pattern continues. High temperatures will be in the low to mid-80s.

The Farmers Almanac had a great article about how 0ccasionally you will see a halo around the Moon at night and did you ever wonder if it means anything on what kind of weather is coming. I learned about this when I first started studying meteorology and we do get rain about 70% of the time. A lunar halo is caused by the refraction and reflection of light through ice particles suspended within wispy, high altitude cirrus or cirrostratus clouds. A lunar halo is often the precursor of impending unsettled weather, especially during the winter months. Cirrus and Cirrostratus clouds generally precede rain and storm systems. So watch the night sky — and keep the umbrella handy!