Author name: Fred Gossage

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

Mostly clear skies stick around through the evening, but clouds increase a little bit overnight. With a light southerly wind, we will be milder than the past few nights, with overnight lows in the mid to upper 50s. As we head into Wednesday, mostly sunny skies and a westerly wind will allow most of us

Check it out! Look look LOOK! After all the dry weather we have had, we FINALLY got a good soaking of rain here across the Tennessee Valley. Over the past 7 days, almost everyone across the area has seen a solid 2 to 3 inches of rain, with some isolated areas seeing as much as

Our weather pattern will be getting more active as we head through the next several days. For our local area here in the Tennessee Valley, there are a couple/few periods where we are monitoring for the potential for strong to severe storms: 1. Friday evening/overnight – April 24th: This appears to be a very low-end

It’s another partly cloudy, breezy, and warm day across the Tennessee Valley on this Tuesday. We don’t have quite as much cloud cover as yesterday, but we still have a fair amount of cumulus cloud activity. All is quiet in terms of any precipitation though. Temperatures this afternoon are climbing into the lower 80s, and

Despite the widespread showers and thunderstorms we had over the weekend, drought conditions continue across the Tennessee Valley, and they are gradually getting worse. All of the viewing area continues in “Moderate” drought conditions, but we are now starting to see “Severe” drought conditions begin to show up in portions of Hardin and Wayne Counties

The grass is turning green again. Bees are buzzing. Trees and flowers are blooming. It is spring in the Tennessee Valley! And with today starting a new month, it’s time to look at climatology for our local area to get a basic idea of how weather here can behave in the month of April. With

Despite some of the recent rounds of rain and storms the past few weeks, drought conditions not only continue across the Tennessee Valley, but have actually worsened a bit. The most recent update to the Drought Monitor shows “Moderate” drought conditions covering just about all of our viewing area across southern middle Tennessee, north Alabama,