Weather Blog

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

It’s been raining all morning across the Tennessee Valley, and there is more where that’s coming from. Heavy rain continues for the rest of today, with a slight (and I mean slight) tapering off by evening, but rain will move back in overnight. Wednesday you can expect more of the same. Temperatures will be a

Rain gear is a must this week as we have multiple rounds of widespread, heavy rain expected in the Tennessee Valley. This could cause flooding issues, so we want you to be on guard and prepared for what’s to come. The rest of today will be relatively uneventful, with an overcast sky and very spotty

After a some nice tastes of Spring over the last couple of weeks, the big story for the upcoming week is that of our well-advertised heavy rain chances that begin in earnest Tuesday, and last perhaps as late as into the next Weekend. Shown here on the left is one tool we use to see

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

Seventeen years ago today, on February 5th, 2008, the “Super Tuesday” Tornado Outbreak heavily impacted the midsouth. Eighty-seven tornadoes ripped across the south during the outbreak. After all was said and done, 57 people lost their lives. Image Credit – Unknown During the outbreak, a few notable tornadoes swept through our area and surrounding areas.