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Author name: Fred Gossage

Chief Meteorologist of the Tennessee Valley Weather Team

A much more active weather pattern across the Tennessee Valley from Friday night into next week

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

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Very warm this week. A chance for some showers and thunderstorms Thursday and especially this weekend. Cooler start to next week.

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

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Drought conditions continue to gradually but steadily get worse in the Tennessee Valley.

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

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An update on drought conditions across the Tennessee Valley.

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,

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Warm weather returns to round out the week. A few showers possible at times.

After starting out with clouds and showers this morning, we have returned to partly cloudy skies late this afternoon. We still have a couple of isolated showers over parts of the area, but they are now shifting off to the east. With the return to partial sunshine this Wednesday afternoon, temperatures have been able to

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Strong to severe storms are possible in the Tennessee Valley Wednesday afternoon into the evening.

After storms back on Saturday and storms on Monday, we look to be facing more strong storms as we head into Wednesday. The NWS Storm Prediction Center maintains a Level 2 of 5 risk outlook across the entire area for Wednesday. The main timeframe for our region is from the mid afternoon through the mid-late

Strong to severe storms are possible in the Tennessee Valley Wednesday afternoon into the evening. Read More »

Showers and a few thunderstorms tonight into Thursday morning. Turning warmer from Friday into next week.

Clouds are locked in across the area on this Wednesday. Despite that, temperatures have still managed to climb into the mid to upper 50s along and north of the Tennessee River and into the lower 60s south of there. We have a few light sprinkles on radar across southern Tennessee this afternoon. This is near

Showers and a few thunderstorms tonight into Thursday morning. Turning warmer from Friday into next week. Read More »