Author name: Fred Gossage

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 […]

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

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,

The latest information early this Tuesday morning from the NWS Storm Prediction Center maintains the Level 3 of 5 “Enhanced Risk” of severe storms for this afternoon and evening for all of our area. The timeline we have shown since yesterday morning has not changed. The main severe weather risk for our viewing area remains

If you pay any attention at all to weather information online or from broadcast outlets, you have at some point seen flashy red graphics used to draw your attention to the potential for impactful weather. Various outlets call this different things, based on their station’s branding. You may hear terms like “First Alert Weather Day”,

We’ve had some sunshine across the Tennessee Valley on this Thursday, but clouds are beginning to thicken up ahead of the next weather system off to our southwest. Temperatures are mainly in the upper 60s and lower 70s as of the early afternoon, but I expect us to climb into the low to mid 70s

The mid afternoon update from the NWS Storm Prediction Center maintains a Level 2 risk of severe storms for about the northwestern 40% or so of our viewing area, roughly along and northwest of the Natchez Trace Parkway give or take a few miles. Folks south and east of there remain in a Level 1

Clouds are starting to break across the area this afternoon. We’re not fully sunny by any means, but we are starting to see some patches of blue sky and sunshine, and this is allowing temperatures to warm into the mid to upper 60s in many places. A few locations down in north Alabama, such as

A new month means a look at that month’s climatology here in our part of the Tennessee Valley, but we also like to begin by looking back at the previous month’s rainfall stats in our area. Within our viewing area, the only NWS climate-record-keeping type reporting stations we have are located on the Alabama side

Severe Weather Awareness Week continues here at Tennessee Valley Weather, and today’s topic is Lightning Safety. Because of the simple definition of what a thunderstorm is, lightning is a concern with EVERY thunderstorm, whether it is severe warned or not. While the parent storm probably won’t strike without warning, individual lightning bolts are random and