Weather Blog

It’s been something of a busy severe weather season worldwide, and this week has certainly not bucked the trend. To kick things off, the dominant weather pattern in the US has been that of a broad, high pressure system across the central majority of CONUS, mostly relegating heat to the middle parts of the country, […]

After a stormy Sunday, we’ve got a very calm and quiet week ahead in the Tennessee Valley. Clouds have moved out from this morning and we will be sunny for the rest of today with temperatures in the low 80s. Tonight will feel quite refreshing, with falling dew points and temperatures getting down to the

New data coming in from today seems to suggest trends in favor of the possibility of some stronger thunderstorm activity as we wrap up our weekend. First things first, as of this afternoon the entire Tennessee Valley is under a level 1 out of 5 risk of severe weather as issued by the Storm Prediction

I hope you had a wonderful weekend! Unfortunately, we start the week off with multiple storm chances, including today. A line of thunderstorms will approach the TN Valley from the SW. The good news? It looks to fall apart as it moves into our area. However, the chance for scattered thundershowers remains this afternoon/evening. Expect

Before we look ahead at June climatology for the area, we will take a look back at rainfall stats for the previous month to try to get an idea of where we are in the rainfall department. Those of you that have followed us for a while know that the main NWS climate reporting station

It doesn’t take anyone to tell you that the 2024 tornado season has been active. After a slow start, things began to pick up a little in late March and early April with active tornado events in the Ohio Valley and a couple of small tornadoes in north Alabama on April 2nd. Once we got

After a stormy Memorial Day weekend, we’ve got a short-term quiet weather pattern in store for the Tennessee Valley. This afternoon will be quite pleasant, with a mix of sun and clouds, highs in the mid 80s, and no rain chance. Dewpoints are in the low 60s today, so it’s a little humid today but

Weather is warm, muggy, but quiet across the Tennessee Valley early on this Sunday morning. We’ve had a few spotty thundershowers developing as close to us as western Tennessee within the past hour or so, but these are lifting more sharply northeastward than yesterday morning’s storms, and these shut miss our local area off to

If you’ve ever lived or spent a lengthy amount of time in the high North, you may have run into the Aurora a few times in your life – the beautiful pillars of pink, purple, green and everything in-between that sometimes can even be bright enough to cast shadows at night; but it wasn’t long

We’re mostly quiet as of the time I’m typing up this discussion early on this Friday morning. We’ve had a few spotty showers develop on radar back over northeast Mississippi. I’ll be showing you a “Futurecast” in a moment that has storms waiting until later this morning before developing. I can’t completely guarantee things will