Author name: Fred Gossage

Above is a shot of some of the flash flooding from the Iron City, Tennessee area via Sam Camp of our team. This isn’t anything close to the devastating flash flooding seen in other parts of the country, but we have had to deal with some road flooding and creeks rising out of their banks […]

It’s a typical early/mid summer afternoon across the Tennessee Valley on this Tuesday. We have a mix of sun and clouds across the area, with warm temperatures, as well as scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms. The heaviest storms are producing frequent lightning, gusty winds of 30-40 mph, and heavy downpours. Those scattered showers and

Good Thursday afternoon! We will continue to stay dry and warm this evening, with temperatures dropping into the lower 80s by 8pm. Overnight lows will be in the mid 60s to lower 70s with generally clear skies. For your 4th of July forecast, we are remaining dry but continuing to warm up! Highs will be

We have picked up many new followers through a very active spring storm season and then after adding Madison County AL and Lincoln County TN to our viewing area not long ago… as well as from folks finding out about us while hearing the launch of our affiliate neighboring partner Matt Laubhan’s new digital weather

We start off the new month by taking a look back at June weather stats from our corner of the Tennessee Valley. For this, we use data from the NWS climate reporting station at the Northwest Alabama Regional Airport in Muscle Shoals. It is the closest NWS climate reporting station that is centrally located in

After a rather slow start to the Atlantic hurricane season compared to the last several years (no complaints here!), Andrea formed in the open North Atlantic on Tuesday, briefly becoming the first named tropical storm of the 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Since then, Andrea has moved into less favorable conditions with the convection associated with

The hot weather continues across the Tennessee Valley. We’re not going to see as many showers and storms today as we have the past few days, with rain chances only around 10%… but we may see a stray afternoon pop-up or two. Otherwise, we expect mostly sunny skies with daytime highs climbing into the mid

Showers and storms won’t be quite nearly as numerous today as they were on Tuesday, but they will still be out there. We’re starting off mostly cloudy to partly sunny on this Wednesday morning with lower 70s and upper 60s. Partly sunny skies will allow us to warm into the upper 80s to lower 90s

Another day, another high rain chance on the board. Showers and thunderstorms will be likely today across the Tennessee Valley, off and on in waves, beginning this morning and carrying through the afternoon and evening. Some of the rainfall may be heavy, and a few afternoon storms could have brief gusty winds, but no organized

Enjoy the sunshine while it lasts because rain chances are on the way back… just not today. We’ll see a few clouds on our Wednesday, but plenty of sunshine and warm temperatures. Daytime highs across the area today will be in the mid to upper 80s, and one or two spots in north Alabama might