Well, it’s safe to say most of us are sick and tired of the rain! Francine’s remnants brought us a ton of it. While it was much needed, the heavy rainfall did cause some flooding issues across the area. We also have a broken record! Muscle Shoals, Alabama has a new record daily maximum rainfall […]

After becoming a hurricane early last evening, Francine has continued to intensify overnight with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph as of the 4am advisory this morning. A little additional strengthening is expected before wind shear and dry air entrainment increase this afternoon before the system makes landfall, and Francine is officially forecast to become

All eyes in the weather center continue to be on the tropical disturbance in the Bay of Campeche and western Gulf of Mexico. This is actually the same system that we’ve been tracking across the Atlantic and through the Caribbean for over a week now! Now that it has moved over into the southwestern Gulf

I hope you had a great Labor Day Weekend! Hopefully it was filled with good food, good company, and much-needed rain. Over the last 3 days, the Tennessee Valley saw anywhere from about 1-2 inches of rain. We have more rain on the way this week, plus a NICE cool down! As for today, expect

The Doppler on Wheels team, headed by Josh Wurman & Karen Kosiba, announced Wednesday on the FARM website the establishment of a new partnership with the University of Alabama Huntsville. The partnership comes after several years of intense and focused research in the Southeastern United States by both organizations in an effort to better understand

Not everybody got rain yesterday, but several locations did, and it actually overperformed a little bit compared to forecast expectations. Here are Doppler Radar dual-pol estimated rainfall totals from the past 24 hours. Areas in green are estimated to have seen as much as a half inch or more! Where the rain happened yesterday, it

Heat safety is crucial during these forecasted high temperatures! Those most vulnerable to experience adverse effects from excessive heat are those who are considered infants, children, elderly, pregnant or experience a chronic illness.  Even if you do not fall within the categories listed above, you do still need to be aware of heat safety. It

We continue to wake up to comfortable morning temperatures across the Tennessee Valley. We’re hanging out in the 60s across the area as of the 5:00am hour. High pressure is in firm control of the weather across our region, both at the surface, and aloft, and this means quiet weather is ahead for now. Don’t

One word can easily describe the beginning of this week: HOT! Air temperatures for much of this week will be in the lower 100s, if not the upper 90s. A quick note for today- Nashville and surrounding areas (including Maury County) have an Air Quality Alert out for the day. This is due to increased

As far as August is concerned, it’s been fantastic out there for the last little while – we can take today just as an example… we have widespread upper-80s/lower-90s, and LOW HUMIDITY, and it’s conditions like this that are hard to beat, if you ask me. Fortunate for us, this is more or less what