Author name: Fred Gossage

I know it feels like we’ve been a broken record this week with multiple rounds and multiple days of strong to severe storms either across parts of our viewing area or very close by. We have one more final round of storms to get through over the next 24-30 hours, and then we shift into […]

Wednesday early morning update: There’s a lot to read here, but please take the time to read it so that you have a full understanding… I’ve attached two maps here. The first one is the new outlook update from the NWS Storm Prediction Center valid for Wednesday and Wednesday night. This isn’t our forecast. This

It’s been a beautiful Wednesday across the Tennessee Valley! Skies have been mostly clear, and temperatures have been very comfortable today, with daytime highs in the lower 70s with low humidity. There have been more widespread clouds and showers off to our south over central Mississippi to south-central Alabama, but these are staying to our

Radar is a little active on this Thursday morning with scattered showers and thunderstorms spinning around a weak upper-level disturbance crossing the area. These storms aren’t too much in the way of trouble, but there is a low-end Level 1 of 5 risk of severe storms for the late morning to early afternoon that clips

Sunshine returns to the Tennessee Valley today, but we are still firmly in the clutches of chilly air. It will continue to be breezy today with northwest winds of 7 to 13 mph that may gust as high as 20 mph at times. That might make the daytime highs of the upper 40s to lower

Today is the last day of February, and while that also means we close the door on the month and head into March tomorrow, we also transition from meteorological winter to meteorological spring. We’ve already hit the low 80s in parts of the area for the first time this year just earlier this week, and

The latest update this morning from the NWS Storm Prediction Center has placed all of our region in a risk for potential severe storms for Tuesday, March 4th. Locally speaking here in the Tennessee Valley, the latest data suggests our threat will be during the late evening and overnight hours of Tuesday night into the

The latest update to the Drought Monitor issued yesterday finally accounted for the multiple days of rain we had last week, and drought conditions are all but officially removed across the viewing area! Now, I know you’re looking outside at your yard at the mud and damp soil and saying “What drought?!?”, but it’s much

The National Weather Service now has all of our viewing area counties across southern middle Tennessee, northwest Alabama, and northeast Mississippi in a WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY valid from tonight through midday on Wednesday. We’re not expecting a major winter storm by any remote stretch of the imagination, but light snow accumulation is pretty likely over

This is just a very quick and dirty initial update on the wintry weather and snow potential for our area late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. We will have a full blog discussion this afternoon… Here is our first attempt at potential snowfall accumulations for late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. Generally speaking, we expect