Memphis to see high temps, chance of rain this weekend 4%

By Jack Armstrong2%

7/24/2026, 10:01:31 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Authority, and Recency Bias, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 20.6% saturation with 68 hits. Analysis detected 268 faulty-reasoning hits from 330 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 17.4% and a BS Rank of 4% (21,116 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 96.50% of the article peer group.

Memphis is set to face yet another hot weekend with a chance of rain. 
Showers and thunderstorms are possible and heat index values could reach 110 this weekend, according to a forecast released by the National Weather Service in Memphis. 
Things will cool down a bit in the evenings but temperatures are expected to remain high during the day. 
Here's the weekend weather forecast from the NWS in Memphis. 
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Friday weather 
July 24 is expected to be be partly sunny, with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. 
Highs will be around 90 degrees and there's a 40% chance of rain. 
Friday evening will be mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms after midnight and lows in the mid 70s. 
There's a 40% chance of rain. 
Saturday Weather 
July 25 is expected to be partly sunny with a chance of thunderstorms and highs in the lower 90s. 
Showers are likely, mainly in the morning. 
There's a 60% chance of rain. 
Saturday night will be partly cloudy with highs in the mid 90s and lows in the upper 70s. 
Sunday Weather 
July 26 should be sunny and hot, with highs in the mid 90s and heat index values up to 110 degrees. 
Sunday night will cool off, and is expected to be a mostly clear evening with lows in the upper 70s. 
Heat index values will remain high early in the evening, up to 105 degrees. 
Monday weather 
July 27 is expected to be sunny with highs in the upper 90s with heat index values up to 110 degrees. 
Monday night is expected to be mostly clear with lows in the upper 70s and heat index values up to 105 early in the evening. 
Jack Armstrong covers breaking news and the environment for The Commercial Appeal. 
He can be reached at jack.armstrong@commercialappeal.com and followed on X @jca2902. 
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Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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