Showers and thunderstorms are expected to move into the greater Nashville area Friday afternoon and linger into Friday evening, bringing a wet start to the city’s final weekend of May. Anyone heading out late Friday through Saturday should take a poncho or umbrella.
That timing matters because the monthly Full Moon Pickin’ Party is set for Friday evening at Percy Warner Park, and the weather could make the opening stretch of the weekend less comfortable than planned. Spotty showers and storms are expected to linger into Saturday, though conditions are trending drier by Saturday evening.
The same forecast window reaches another crowd on Saturday night, when the Nashville Sounds game is scheduled to get underway at 6:35 p.m. at First Horizon Park. Rain is not guaranteed, but the chance of showers is enough to make outdoor plans more uncertain for much of the day before the atmosphere begins to settle down later in the evening.
Sunday brings the best look of the three-day stretch. The Cracker Barrel 400 is expected to run under partly sunny skies, and it is more likely than not that dry conditions hold from start to finish. There is still an outside chance of a shower, but the trend points toward a race day that stays mostly dry.
That leaves the practical answer for Nashville’s weekend crowd: the wettest stretch should arrive Friday afternoon and Friday evening, Saturday stays unsettled for a while, and Sunday offers the clearest path to dry weather. The forecast is being issued at the end of May, just as the month’s final weekend fills up with plans across the city.
