Author name: Bryan Wilson

It’s been quite an active few days, with the snow and rain making for a slushy wintry muck across the area over the last 48 hours. All things considered, we’ve certainly seen worse systems this time of year, though some limited impacts did occur across the area. Fortunately with those highs above freezing today, we […]

An unwarned, quickly moving tornado touched down in a matter of minutes late Sunday night, leaving the Downtown and Courthouse blocks with extensive damage, and destroying the old Veterans Memorial Mural building. Our Sam Camp was in the skies and on the ground with aerial views ground views of the damage path through the downtown

A nice start to our Weekend so far has fortunately graced the Tennessee Valley – now, we have still been cool, with our highs today getting into the mid-upper 50s, but that is certainly manageable for this time of year, especially given that we’ve gotten rid of that chilly wind that made the last few

Friday marked a two-fold celebration in Huntsville for Meteorologists in the Tennessee Valley as UAH celebrated 10 years since the establishment of SWIRLL – the Severe Weather Institute and Radar & Lightning Laboratories – and the beginning of a partnership with the Doppler on Wheels team, known best for their decades of groundbreaking tornado research,

The Doppler on Wheels team, headed by Josh Wurman & Karen Kosiba, announced Wednesday on the FARM website the establishment of a new partnership with the University of Alabama Huntsville. The partnership comes after several years of intense and focused research in the Southeastern United States by both organizations in an effort to better understand

As far as August is concerned, it’s been fantastic out there for the last little while – we can take today just as an example… we have widespread upper-80s/lower-90s, and LOW HUMIDITY, and it’s conditions like this that are hard to beat, if you ask me. Fortunate for us, this is more or less what

If you’ve been a viewer of Tennessee Valley Weather for any amount of time, you’d have heard us discuss several times before just how many various tools 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

In the warm seasons here in the South, especially this time of year, we see almost weekly some form of stormy or unsettled weather, if we aren’t in some sort of major drought. With those storms often come heavy rain, lightning and more often than not, scary skies sweeping across the Valley – we’ve all

The title of this roundup is perhaps one of the more cruel cases of irony seen in this wild year of weather – but it’s exactly the situation out west. Over the last several days, the small town of Ruidoso, New Mexico has faced an onslaught wind, fire, and rain, unfortunately thus far culminating in