New Weather Satellite to Launch on Falcon Heavy

The next generation of weather observation satellites continues on next week with the upcoming launch of GOES-U. For the last 50 years, NOAA has operated a family of Geostationary (that is, rotating once ever 24 hours, appearing to “hover” over one spot) satellites solely dedicated to monitoring the entire weather patterns across the entirety of

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Weekly Weather Roundup – Floods in America, Tornadoes in China…

It’s been something of a busy severe weather season worldwide, and this week has certainly not bucked the trend. To kick things off, the dominant weather pattern in the US has been that of a broad, high pressure system across the central majority of CONUS, mostly relegating heat to the middle parts of the country,

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Multiple thunderstorm chances this week. Few dry days ahead.

I hope you had a wonderful weekend! Unfortunately, we start the week off with multiple storm chances, including today. A line of thunderstorms will approach the TN Valley from the SW. The good news? It looks to fall apart as it moves into our area. However, the chance for scattered thundershowers remains this afternoon/evening. Expect

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June climatology in the Tennessee Valley, and a look back at May rainfall stats.

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

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Spring tornado season is coming to a close in the Tennessee Valley, but that doesn’t mean that severe storms go away. They just change character in the summer.

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

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The latest info concerning tonight’s severe storm threat in the Tennessee Valley

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

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