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Lightning Strike To Blame For Fatal Lawrence County, TN Fire

On May 9, 2024, at approximately 7:46 a.m. Lawrence County Fire & Rescue Tennessee Units responded to a residential structure fire at 3 Morgan Road in the New Prospect Fire District. First arriving units immediately initiated fire attack and search efforts. Firefighter’s quickly located victims with no viable life signs. The following persons perished as […]

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It’s gonna be MAY! Here’s a look at the local climatology for the month in the Tennessee Valley.

Before we move on to the May climatology stats for the Tennessee Valley, we’ll take a peak back at rainfall for the previous month like we usually do in these posts. After a big drought from last summer on through the winter, rainfall caught up across the area, and we have completely come out of

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Drought conditions are gone locally, but just how exactly are we doing with rainfall?

It doesn’t take a meteorologist to know that it’s been a fairly wet spring so far here across the Tennessee Valley. I don’t think we’ve gone a full week-long stretch without at least small rain chances somewhere in the area for at least the past few months. Fortunately, the rain we have gotten has been

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Sunshine and warm temperatures continue. Rain and t’storm chances on the horizon.

It’s turning out to be another beautiful, sunny, warm day across the Tennessee Valley on this Monday. High pressure is currently in control of the weather over the Southeast, and that’s currently keeping all the unsettled weather off to our north and west. Temperatures early this afternoon are climbing through the upper 70s to the

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CSU’s 2024 Hurricane Forecast. Let’s cut through the hype and talk about what it does (and does not) mean.

Back on Thursday, Dr. Phil Klotzbach from Colorado State University released their 2024 forecast for the Atlantic hurricane season. Their forecast calls for what could be considered a very active hurricane season, and is the largest April forecast they have released. They are calling for 23 named storms, with 11 of those becoming full-fledged hurricanes,

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