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Correlation Coefficient – A Meteorologists Best Friend During Tornadoes

If you’ve been a viewer of Tennessee Valley Weather for any amount of time, you’d have heard us discuss several times before just how many various tools we have at our disposal to investigate radar data to find possibly dangerous areas of rotation – be it from analyzing the structure of storms on radar, or

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

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.

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 »

Multiple rain and storm chances this week. Gradual temperature warm-up by the weekend.

We’ve got quite the gloomy start to the week, but that means more chances for much-needed rain in the Tennessee Valley. Plus, the cloud cover helps us stay out of the 90s. Hit or miss storms will be with us this afternoon and early evening, and I do think coverage will be a little more

Multiple rain and storm chances this week. Gradual temperature warm-up by the weekend. Read More »

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

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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Rain & storms likely this week. Hot and humid with a slight cool-down soon.

After a hot weekend, you are probably excited about the ‘slight cool-down’ part of the headline for the Tennessee Valley. I’ll talk more about that later on. First we can focus on today and much needed rain that’s coming our way this week. Chances not all that great today, maybe a pop-up thundershower or two.

Rain & storms likely this week. Hot and humid with a slight cool-down soon. Read More »