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Author name: Fred Gossage

Chief Meteorologist of the Tennessee Valley Weather Team

COLD this morning, but milder weather is ahead. Rain returns to end the weekend.

It is disrespectfully cold out there this morning! Check out morning lows across our part of the Tennessee Valley… most all of us were down into the teens this morning, with several spots in southern middle Tennessee in the low to mid teens. Lewisburg, TN was all the way down to 10 degrees for a […]

COLD this morning, but milder weather is ahead. Rain returns to end the weekend. Read More »

Chilly today. Warming temps ahead. Rainy at times next week. Stormy Thanksgiving?

Another chilly day is in store across the area on this Friday. We’ll have a few clouds this morning, but still plenty of sunshine through the day. Daytime highs look to only make the upper 40s to lower 50s across the area. Winds will still be gusty out of the northwest, but not quite as

Chilly today. Warming temps ahead. Rainy at times next week. Stormy Thanksgiving? Read More »

The latest concerning the drought and whether there may be any rain ahead.

It comes as a shock to absolutely nobody that drought conditions remain across a large part of the viewing area. If anything, it’s a little bit of a surprise that much of our region isn’t ranked in slightly worse drought conditions than what are shown on the latest Drought Monitor update from the NWS Climate

The latest concerning the drought and whether there may be any rain ahead. Read More »

Fall severe weather season is right around the corner. Time to think about preparedness.

Now that the jet stream is making its migration south and strong cold fronts are reaching our area, we are shifting back toward severe weather season here in the Tennessee Valley. Our tornado season here runs from November through May, although we can sometimes see activity pick up a few weeks early in October some

Fall severe weather season is right around the corner. Time to think about preparedness. Read More »

Beautiful October weather across the Tennessee Valley this week. All eyes on powerful Hurricane Milton in the Gulf of Mexico.

Right on cue, classic October weather is in place across the Tennessee Valley. Clear, cobalt skies with a northerly breeze, low humidity, and daytime temperatures in the 70s. That’s exactly what we have on the docket for today. Highs look to top out into the mid to upper 70s across the area, but one or

Beautiful October weather across the Tennessee Valley this week. All eyes on powerful Hurricane Milton in the Gulf of Mexico. Read More »

We close the door to September and head into October tomorrow. What does this usually mean in terms of weather?

It’s almost hard to believe the year has flown by as it has, but here we are making our way out of September and we begin October tomorrow! We are now firmly within the early portion of fall, and our weather here in the Tennessee Valley typically responds accordingly. Our average temperatures change pretty quickly

We close the door to September and head into October tomorrow. What does this usually mean in terms of weather? Read More »

Hurricane Francine to impact the Tennessee Valley Thursday into parts of Friday. Here’s what to expect.

After becoming a hurricane early last evening, Francine has continued to intensify overnight with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph as of the 4am advisory this morning. A little additional strengthening is expected before wind shear and dry air entrainment increase this afternoon before the system makes landfall, and Francine is officially forecast to become

Hurricane Francine to impact the Tennessee Valley Thursday into parts of Friday. Here’s what to expect. Read More »

The latest concerning the developing system in the Gulf, as well as how it may impact our local weather later in the week.

All eyes in the weather center continue to be on the tropical disturbance in the Bay of Campeche and western Gulf of Mexico. This is actually the same system that we’ve been tracking across the Atlantic and through the Caribbean for over a week now! Now that it has moved over into the southwestern Gulf

The latest concerning the developing system in the Gulf, as well as how it may impact our local weather later in the week. Read More »

Warm again today, but the heat is on borrowed time. Rain chances increasing!

Not everybody got rain yesterday, but several locations did, and it actually overperformed a little bit compared to forecast expectations. Here are Doppler Radar dual-pol estimated rainfall totals from the past 24 hours. Areas in green are estimated to have seen as much as a half inch or more! Where the rain happened yesterday, it

Warm again today, but the heat is on borrowed time. Rain chances increasing! Read More »