Author name: Fred Gossage

Alabama’s “Severe Weather Awareness Week” continues on Tuesday (but this info applies to EVERYONE and we do this again later in the month when Tennessee does theirs). Today’s topic from the NWS Huntsville office is “Lightning and Severe Thunderstorms”. Here in the Tennessee Valley, the vast majority of weather hazards we face through the year […]

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has proclaimed February 3rd through the 7th as “Severe Weather Awareness Week” this year. Usually, this is done the final week of the month when Alabama does the weekend state tax holiday for preparedness supplies. That tax holiday is still scheduled for the last week of this month, but SWAW has

We turn the page on January and head into a new month tomorrow (Saturday). That means it’s time to look at the monthly climatology stats to get an idea of what is considered “average” in our part of the Tennessee Valley. As we always explain, the NWS official climate reporting station for our viewing area

We have some patches of mid/high level cloud cover across the area this afternoon, but otherwise, it’s a nice weather day across the Tennessee Valley on this Wednesday. Temperatures are up into the mid 60s this afternoon, with one or two isolated spots even making a run at the upper 60s! Clouds are increasing just

The latest update from the NWS Climate Prediction Center continues to show a little more improvement in drought conditions across the area. There are no longer any portions of our 14 county viewing area listed in “Extreme” or “Exceptional” drought conditions. There remains a portion of southern Tennessee and north Alabama in our viewing area

Temperatures were downright disrespectful across the area early this morning! Check out the morning lows… all of our viewing area was near or into the single digits. A few places as cold as 1 DEGREE ABOVE ZERO. We will be cold again tonight, but not quite nearly as cold. Overnight lows look to range anywhere

We haven’t talked about it in a little bit because of being busy with winter storms, storm threats, and generally active weather for the last several days, but there are still drought conditions in place across the area. The good news, though, is that there has been some improvement. “Exceptional” level drought conditions are no

Today was one of the mildest days we’ve had around the Tennessee Valley for over a week now! Most locations got into the mid to upper 50s for daytime highs, and the Muscle Shoals airport almost hit 60 degrees! Winds will go light to calm overnight, and with mostly clear skies, temperatures will drop into

After any major weather event in our area, we always pick up several new followers on our various platforms. That has held true after the recent winter storm in our area. For all of you that have stumbled upon us over the last 10 to 14 days, we would like to take the opportunity to

As of early this Tuesday evening, we still have this WINTER STORM WATCH in place across north Mississippi and west Tennessee that includes Hardin County TN and Tishomingo County MS of our viewing area. This watch goes into effect beginning 6:00 pm Thursday evening and runs until 6:00 am Saturday morning. Local National Weather Service