Author name: Fred Gossage

It’s Christmas season in the Tennessee Valley! We have made it to December, and we are getting closer to wrapping up 2025. Meteorologically, that means we have entered not only a new month, but a new climatological season as well. For the month of December, we usually average a daytime high of about 55 degrees. […]

From all of us here at Tennessee Valley Weather, the X Sports Network, Local 43 TV, and the rest of the Tennessee Valley Media Group, we wish you a wonderful, safe, and happy Thanksgiving today! While we WILL be providing regular weather updates on our platforms, we are scaled back in staffing on a holiday

It’s dry here in the Tennessee Valley. We’ve seen a little rain the past few weeks, but not too much. In fact, except for areas near and north of Highway 412 in middle Tennessee, the vast majority of our viewing area has seen less than a quarter of an inch of rain in the past

After a chilly start to today with morning lows across the entire area down into the lower 20s and upper 10s, we, fortunately, will stay above freezing overnight tonight. A breezy southwest wind of 15 mph that will gust as high as 20 to 30 mph at times will keep the lower atmosphere mixed… in

Friday, especially in the afternoon and evening, will feature the potential for a few strong to severe storms across the Tennessee Valley. There is currently a low-end Level 2 of 5 risk outlined across all of southern middle Tennessee, down into parts of north Alabama, and into far northeast Mississippi. Outside of that, there is

November arrives on Saturday. It’s hard to believe we’re flying this quickly toward the end of the year, but here we are! As we head into November, we are heading into home stretch for meteorological fall here in the Tennessee Valley. Typically, the main storm track comes southward and gets more active. We shift out

The latest Drought Monitor update issued this morning by the NWS Climate Prediction Center shows that some portions of our area still remain in “Abnormally Dry” or in drought classifications, but that there have been no major changes. In fact, if anything, areas of western Colbert and Franklin Counties in Alabama back into southern Tishomingo

As we head into the cooler months of the year, the jet stream becomes more active as it comes back southward toward our area… bringing with it more frequent weather systems and a return to severe weather “season” in the Tennessee Valley. Severe storms and even tornadoes can happen at any time of the year,

As of the latest drought monitor that was issued this past Thursday, we’ve been able to hold off major drought conditions across our part of the Tennessee Valley. As a matter of fact, there has actually been significant short-term improvement across the Highway 412 corridor of southern Tennessee in what was red on this map

Skies will continue to gradually but steadily clear as we head into the overnight. Breezy north to northeast winds will continue as well, sustained around 10 mph and gusting as high as 15 to 20 mph at times. That will bring in cooler and drier air, with overnight lows down into the low to mid