Pretty much the same weather pattern is going to carry us through the weekend and into next week with partly cloudy skies and Scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Afternoon highs across East Tennessee 85 to 90 and then dropping into the 60s at night. Storm chances increase to about 50% by the 4th of July. Very heavy storms blew down trees and produced hail in East Tennessee Friday afternoon but the storms quickly faded away as they approached the plateau.