TENNESSEE VALLEY WEATHER BLOG

Sunshine and warm temperatures the next few days. Rain and storms return later in the week.

By Fred Gossage | May 20, 2024

Sunny, beautiful weather continues across the Tennessee Valley for this Monday. We do expect a few clouds in the sky, but much more blue than cloud cover. Daytime highs will be seasonably warm again with temps topping out in the mid to upper 80s. Overnight lows tonight under mostly clear to partly cloudy skies get […]

Seasonably warm temperatures ahead. Rain chances back off for now but return later in the week.

By Fred Gossage | May 19, 2024

After a stormy Saturday across the Tennessee Valley, we are back to quiet weather today. The weather system that brought the rain and storms to the area yesterday is shifting away, and we are returning to mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies on this Sunday. Daytime highs across the region will be in the low […]

Lightning Strike To Blame For Fatal Lawrence County, TN Fire

By Ben Luna | May 13, 2024

On May 9, 2024, at approximately 7:46 a.m. Lawrence County Fire & Rescue Tennessee Units responded to a residential structure fire at 3 Morgan Road in the New Prospect Fire District. First arriving units immediately initiated fire attack and search efforts. Firefighter’s quickly located victims with no viable life signs. The following persons perished as […]

Cloudy with showers at time today. T’storms late tonight and Tuesday. More rain late in the week.

By Fred Gossage | May 13, 2024

Clouds are thick in place across the Tennessee Valley early this Monday morning as a complex of showers and thunderstorms tracks south of our region across the southern half of Mississippi into south Alabama. The northern edge of that complex is spreading a few light showers into the area this morning, but nothing of too […]

Multiple rounds of storms through Thursday morning. Strong to severe storms possible.

By Kelli Rosson | May 7, 2024

Tuesday has started off calm, quiet and MUGGY across the Tennessee Valley! It’s the definition of ‘the air you can wear.’ Dewpoints in the 70s are making it feel miserable outside! Highs this afternoon will top out in the low to mid 80s, with scattered pop-up showers and storms expected. A few storms that develop […]

Rain and storms arrive this afternoon. Off and on stormy much of the week.

By Fred Gossage | May 5, 2024

We’re starting off with a beautiful morning on this Sunday across the Tennessee Valley. Skies are partly cloudy (mainly just high, thin cirrus clouds moving in at the moment) with temperatures starting the day in mainly the lower 60s, although one or two spots are down to the upper 50s, and Decatur is still holding […]

It’s gonna be MAY! Here’s a look at the local climatology for the month in the Tennessee Valley.

By Ben Luna | May 1, 2024

Before we move on to the May climatology stats for the Tennessee Valley, we’ll take a peak back at rainfall for the previous month like we usually do in these posts. After a big drought from last summer on through the winter, rainfall caught up across the area, and we have completely come out of […]

The “Super Outbreak” of April 27th, 2011

By Ben Luna | April 27, 2024

Every generation has it’s watershed moment. Ask any astronomy or space travel fan, and they can cite you down to the second what happened during the Challenger tragedy in 1986 – doubly so, many Americans can recall their entire September 11th, 2001 – and just about any weather nerd, hobbyist or professional, can recall their […]