Author name: Fred Gossage

It should surprise absolutely no one at all, but drought conditions continue across the Tennessee Valley, and the latest update to the Drought Monitor from the NWS Climate Prediction Center has ramped up the conditions again. “Extreme” drought conditions, the next from highest level, now cover parts of Lawrence and Giles Counties in Tennessee and […]

Tropical Storm Beryl was officially declared by the National Hurricane Center at 10:00pm Central Time Friday night, and the system has strengthened a little overnight. The 4:00am Central Time advisory has Beryl’s wind speeds up to 50 mph now and pressure down to 1000mb. Tropical Storm Beryl is moving generally westward at 21 mph but

If you’ve noticed plants and the ground getting dry around our area the last week or two, you’re definitely not imagining things. While we aren’t officially outlined in drought conditions at this point, today’s Drought Monitor Update from the NWS Climate Prediction Center has placed much of the southern middle Tennessee portion of our viewing

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

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

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

We are temporarily quiet across the Tennessee Valley early on this Thursday morning. Enjoy it while it lasts! Thunderstorms coming out of the Arklatex to Arklamiss area overnight have fizzled (as expected) on their approach to east Mississippi and west Alabama. Spotty thunderstorms closer to the stalled frontal boundary are currently staying north of our

It’s a downright balmy morning across the Tennessee Valley early on this Wednesday. As of the 4:00am hour, temperatures across the region were still into the low to mid 70s (ignore Scottsboro’s reading over there; it’s been acting up the past few weeks!). This is thanks to mostly cloudy skies across the area and a

The quiet and warm weather continues across the Tennessee Valley on this Tuesday. The ridge of high pressure in the upper-levels strengthens overhead, and that means we’ll see less in the way of cloud cover than Monday and we also shouldn’t see any stray showers for today. High temps will be a couple degrees warmer