There are three certainties when it comes to life in Dixie: death, taxes, and tornadoes. In more ways than one, it’d even be right to suggest that tornadoes – indeed, weather as a whole – has shaped the history of this part of the continent. You can look as far back as the early days […]

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 […]

Unless you’ve been under a (perhaps moon-shaped) rock for the last few months, you’ve probably heard by now that, on April 8th 2024, the next great American solar eclipse will take place. This one has had so much pomp and circumstance surrounding it that many tens of millions of Americans are travelling to the path […]

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 […]

It’s been 1 year since the 3rd biggest tornado outbreak in American history took place. Do you remember the day? We certainly do. As luck (or perhaps the lack thereof) would have it, the Tennessee Valley was the host of the longest-tracked tornado of the outbreak, an EF-3 tornado that impacted Bethel Springs and unfortunately […]

Before we get into the gory details of the forecast, the elephant in the room is… just how nice today is. Looking down from 22,000 miles up, the satellite shows almost no cloud cover anywhere in the Tennessee Valley (and the nearest rainfall? Something like 600 miles away!). When you take this beautiful clear weather […]

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”, […]