Author name: Chase Wilson

After a nice enough day as far as January goes, featuring only patchy upper-level clouds and typical temperatures for this time of year, we’re back to freezing (and below) for tonight and into early Sunday morning. Heading into tomorrow, we start to see the “miss” part of the “hit or miss” Weekend, compared to how […]

Hopefully you enjoyed those 40s and near 50 temps of Yesterday… because their time in the Valley is over! With the impending arrival of truly frigid, Arctic (literally, it came from Siberia!) air, I thought I’d take a look today at simple, useful tips to counter the cold as we start to approach wind-chill values

Our Florence UNA camera this evening is a good example of what most all of us have been working with today – a gray drab day, with those showers off and on with cool temperatures (so far, upper 40s, a couple low 50s here and there); good sleeping weather, in other words. This moisture, of

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