Author name: Ben Luna

The system that will eventually cause our chance of snow flurries or light snow showers on Friday is currently sitting over the St. Louis area. This is an upper-level low that’s been sitting and spinning around over the Midwest since the weekend. This system will gradually shift southeastward and across our area over the next […]

I sincerely hope you had a wonderful Christmas holiday spent with your loved ones, enjoying the warm, above average temps here in the Tennessee Valley. We’re about to get colder later on this week, and we’ve got a lot to discuss in terms of our first chance for snowflakes of the season. Before we get

For as long as I can recall on my time on the internet, there has been much speculation as to what exactly those vapor streaks behind jets were – some particularly… creative imaginations suggest what we see on a sunny day emanating from planes is some mysterious gas… Or perhaps, its a chemical they’re using

We’re just a few more days away from Christmas, and that means everyone is going to be caught up in plans for parties, family get-togethers, church services, travel plans, etc. We’re going to take the time today to break down the forecast for the Christmas holiday weekend here locally, as well as give an overview

Whew, it was a COLD start to the day across the Tennessee Valley! We dropped down into the upper teens and lower 20s. We will not get very warm this afternoon, with highs just in the low to mid 40s. Keep your warm weather gear handy for the rest of today and tonight. Lows tonight

After the recent rainfall events across the area, we wanted to provide an update on where we stand in terms of the rainfall deficit/surplus across the Tennessee Valley and how that factors into the ongoing drought across the area. We had some weekend showers move through the region, but the heaviest rain stayed well off

Our next weather-maker is here – mostly. Through the first half of today, a few showers have been lingering in the general vicinity of the TN Valley (and especially off to our SW), but some relatively drier air has kept the more notable rain totals at bay, and will likely continue to do so. Granted,

This week had provided the Tennessee Valley with fantastic weather, but all good things must come to an end. Enjoy this evening, because rain moves in by Saturday. We say goodbye to the clear blue sky from this morning and trade it in for cloud cover by tonight. Clouds will gradually increase through the rest

We’ve discussed several times before just how many various ways we have at our disposal to investigate radar data to find possibly dangerous areas of rotation – be it from analyzing the structure of storms on radar, or their doppler velocities, these tools have proven invaluable since their nationwide rollout some 35 years ago. In

The overnight update from the NWS Storm Prediction Center raised a large part of our viewing area to a Level 2 of 5 risk of severe storms for Saturday afternoon and Saturday night. The overall forecast thinking hasn’t changed. This is an eastward shift in their risk areas that we had been expected, and that