This wicked, July heat has me thinking of a season I always take for granted – Winter. A common citation people use to attempt to forecast winters to come is the infamous persimmon seed. This was one of the first wives tales I heard as a kid, alongside “Thunder in February, Cold Spell in April” […]
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It’s been a somewhat unsettled day, no doubt, with relatively widespread shower and thunderstorm activity today across the area. Some spots have picked up the better part of an additional inch of rain, while some of us didn’t see anything – but most of us definitely saw that mostly cloudy, almost overcast sky looming over
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Good Friday morning! Another hot and humid day is in store however, highs will only make it into the upper 80s and lower 90s due to the clouds and showers around. Scattered to numerous showers and storms are expected this afternoon with some containing very heavy downpours. During the evening hours, we will see those
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Good Thursday morning! While today won’t feature high rain chances, we will see our chances for showers and storms go up tomorrow and into Saturday. However, for today, just some isolated showers and storms will be possible during the afternoon and evening. There could be a quick uptick in shower and storm activity during the
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We start off mostly clear, outside of a little patchy fog around daybreak, for our Wednesday morning. Temperatures begin in the low to mid 70s. By the afternoon, with daytime heating, we look to see a few scattered showers and thunderstorms. There may be a slightly better chance of them over southern middle Tennessee versus
Partly to mostly cloudy skies are overhead to kick off this Monday across the Tennessee Valley. Another hot and humid day is in store, but that should come as no surprise in the middle of July. In terms of afternoon thunderstorm chances, you see on our Futurecast model just how spotty we expect the coverage
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Happy Friday! While we won’t be getting rid of our rain and storm chances today, they will be slightly lower this afternoon and evening. Only scattered showers and storms are expected today with highs in the upper 80s and lower 90s. Skies will be partly cloudy. Any storm that does develop could have some very
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Good Thursday morning! Numerous showers and storms are expected once again today, however, the best coverage will likely be across Northern Alabama. Some of the storms could be on the strong side with heavy rain, gusty winds around 30-40mph, and frequent lightning. The overall severe risk today is extremely low. With the amount of clouds
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
