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Author name: Fred Gossage

Chief Meteorologist of the Tennessee Valley Weather Team

Warm again today, but the heat is on borrowed time. Rain chances increasing!

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Not everybody got rain yesterday, but several locations did, and it actually overperformed a little bit compared to forecast expectations. Here are Doppler Radar dual-pol estimated rainfall totals from the past 24 hours. Areas in green are estimated to have seen as much as a half inch or more! Where the rain happened yesterday, it […]

Warm again today, but the heat is on borrowed time. Rain chances increasing! Read More »

Hot temperatures for now, but heat relief and rain chances are eventually on the way!

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We continue to wake up to comfortable morning temperatures across the Tennessee Valley. We’re hanging out in the 60s across the area as of the 5:00am hour. High pressure is in firm control of the weather across our region, both at the surface, and aloft, and this means quiet weather is ahead for now. Don’t

Hot temperatures for now, but heat relief and rain chances are eventually on the way! Read More »

Dry weather continues. Starting to warm up again. Triple digits next week!

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There’s a pretty stark contrast in temperatures right at the state line early on this Friday morning. As of the 4:00am hour, temperatures across a large part of southern middle Tennessee are down into the mid 60s (a little milder in western areas), but everyone in northwest Alabama is still sitting in the low to

Dry weather continues. Starting to warm up again. Triple digits next week! Read More »

MAYBE a stray shower this afternoon. Basically dry the next seven days. Turning hotter ahead!

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We’re still quite comfortable this morning, and well below average with temperatures, but we’re not quite as cool as we were early yesterday morning for most areas. As of the time I’m writing this, temperatures are still in the low to mid 60s in quite a lot of places, with the 50s, restricted to north

MAYBE a stray shower this afternoon. Basically dry the next seven days. Turning hotter ahead! Read More »

Quiet weather this week, and a welcome break from the heat. We’ll see how long that lasts…

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We continue with mostly clear skies across the Tennessee Valley and much of the Southeast early in this Tuesday morning. That is because of the drier air mass that has worked its way into the region behind the cold front that came through Sunday, now located down along the Gulf Coast. Behind the front, temperatures

Quiet weather this week, and a welcome break from the heat. We’ll see how long that lasts… Read More »

A look at August climatology for our part of the Tennessee Valley, and a quick update on rainfall stats and drought conditions.

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We come bearing good news! After struggling to see much of any rain for the month of June and into the first part of July, we’ve turned the corner over the past few weeks in the rainfall department. Over the last 30 days, many locations across the Tennessee Valley have seen a cumulative 4 to

A look at August climatology for our part of the Tennessee Valley, and a quick update on rainfall stats and drought conditions. Read More »

Tropics may awaken with another system soon; however, early indications are it might turn north before the Gulf.

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As we began talking about as early as the first half of last week in my evening weathercasts, we would need to begin watching the tropics going deeper into this week for the potential for a system to possibly develop in the Atlantic basin. The latest outlook from the National Hurricane Center now gives this

Tropics may awaken with another system soon; however, early indications are it might turn north before the Gulf. Read More »

Drought Update – Where we are so far and could there be some relief in sight?

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It should surprise absolutely no one at all, but drought conditions continue across the Tennessee Valley, and the latest update to the Drought Monitor from the NWS Climate Prediction Center has ramped up the conditions again. “Extreme” drought conditions, the next from highest level, now cover parts of Lawrence and Giles Counties in Tennessee and

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The latest information on now Tropical Storm Beryl. We’ll talk about why you should pay attention, but why there’s no reason to be worried at this point.

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Tropical Storm Beryl was officially declared by the National Hurricane Center at 10:00pm Central Time Friday night, and the system has strengthened a little overnight. The 4:00am Central Time advisory has Beryl’s wind speeds up to 50 mph now and pressure down to 1000mb. Tropical Storm Beryl is moving generally westward at 21 mph but

The latest information on now Tropical Storm Beryl. We’ll talk about why you should pay attention, but why there’s no reason to be worried at this point. Read More »