Author name: Fred Gossage

Before we look ahead into September, we take a look at weather stats for the month of August. For an NWS climate reporting station central to our viewing area and best representative of everyone, we have the Northwest Alabama Regional Airport in Muscle Shoals. For a large part of the month of August, temperatures came […]

Partly cloudy skies can be found across the Tennessee Valley on this hot Monday afternoon. However, a weak cool front is easing into the area, and this is starting to pop of scattered showers and thunderstorms across the area. Current temperatures are in the mid to upper 90s, a few folks even hitting 100 degrees!

The drought has come to an END across our part of the Tennessee Valley! As of the latest Drought Monitor update released on August 6, 2026, NONE of our viewing area is labeled officially in drought conditions. Only a very small part of the Shoals remains in “abnormally dry” conditions, and that could be easily

Things have changed substantially over the past couple of months. We went from having areas of severe to extreme drought in the viewing area during spring, to having the drought all but completely eradicated as of the most recent update issued back this past Thursday. Any remaining drought classification areas are due mainly to long-term

It is HOT in the Tennessee Valley this week, and that comes as no surprise as we are rolling into the heart of summer now. Tomorrow is the start of July, and July to the first half of August is typically the hottest part of the year here. Let’s look at some climatological stats from

The drought monitor continues to improve! The latest release from the NWS Climate Prediction Center now only has a tiny but of low-end drought classification in place north of Highway 412 in Maury County, TN and another small area south of the Tennessee River in northwest Alabama. These are driven by long-term rain deficits over

For all the new followers and viewers we have gotten since the start of spring, we would like to take the opportunity to welcome you to Tennessee Valley Weather and just say THANK YOU for trusting Tennessee Valley Weather for your weather information! We are a 24/7 ALL-LOCAL digital weather station originating from Lawrenceburg, Tennessee,

The past few weeks have brought major drought improvement to our local area! The latest official drought monitor update released back on Thursday has downgraded a large part of the viewing area to only “Abnormally Dry” conditions, with actual drought conditions only in place across the Shoals to Russellville and Moulton in north Alabama and

We’re getting a little more sunshine on this Wednesday afternoon, but scattered showers and thunderstorms are around. Where the rain has been most widespread so far today, temperatures are holding into the 70s. Elsewhere, where there is more sunshine, we are climbing toward the mid 80s. We’ll continue to see a few scattered showers and

We’ve had a bit of sunshine across the area so far on this Wednesday, but clouds are building, and so are the showers and thunderstorms. After the earlier round of rain activity, we’ve had temperatures climb into the 80s, and now more showers and thunderstorms are moving into the area from western Tennessee and north