Author name: Fred Gossage

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

We’re entering Day 2 of a two-day break between weather systems here across the Tennessee Valley, and that means active weather is on the way. Today is quiet, but we see rain and a few rumbles of thunder return later tonight into Saturday morning as the warm front lifts north across the area. We don’t

Yep, you guessed it! Rain continues across the area on this Wednesday, and it will be heavy at times. Widespread heavy rain shifts back into the area after sunrise this morning and continues through midday or the early afternoon before the widespread steady stuff shifts east of us, and we have more in the way

Today is the last day of Alabama’s “Severe Weather Awareness Week” (Tennessee’s campaign is later this month), and the final topic for the week set by NWS Huntsville is “Resiliency”. Resiliency is defined as the ability or capacity to recover quickly from difficulties and hardships, or “toughness” against those hardships. While some of the stats

Alabama’s “Severe Weather Awareness Week” rolls along on this Thursday (and we will do this for Tennessee later this month, as mentioned before). Today’s topic from the NWS Huntsville is concerning a weather hazard in our area that gets most if not all of the attention… Tornadoes. A tornado is defined as a windstorm comprised