heavy rains

Fay has brought us some nice rain here in the Cookeville, TN area.  My CoCoRaHS gauge had 1.26" in it this morning at 6:20 am and it is still raining.  Our latest, local forecast calls for heavy rains the rest of today and tonight. 

Unless you've been living in Tent City or under the local overpass, you've almost certainly seen recent news reports about the impact the flooding along the mighty Mississip is having on local communities.

While other little soccer sisters seem content to sit sweetly with their parents on the sidelines, Miss A seems hell bent on running the hubby and I ragged. We take turns making sure she doesn’t bolt out on to the field, jump in the nearby river, or hijack one of the soccer league sanctioned golf carts zipping through the throngs of jersey clad kids.

Heavy rains on Friday, combined with a steady amount in the days beforehand, have brought the level of Normandy Reservoir over six feet higher than the same time last week. Also, the drought has now...

Winds today will be out of the south from 15-25 mph pushing the afternoon high into the low 70’s. Cloudy skies with a few passing showers this afternoon. Tonight we’ll have storms out to the west move into middle Tennessee. Its likely tomorrow morning will be stormy with heavy rains and strong winds. After [...]

Mostly sunny and in the upper 60’s. Overnight low very mild, upper 40’s with a high in the low 70’s tomorrow. Very nice almost-Spring weather (vernal equinox is 7 days away).

This will be the warmest day we’ve had in about a week. We should reach into the upper 50’s today even enjoy a little bit of sunshine late morning into early afternoon. But the next system is right back in tonight; expect some strong winds and sometimes heavy rains tonight as a few storms [...]

Apropo of tonight’s weather…..Romney’s out, right?

A class 5 Hucktastrophe just tore a line through the mobile home park of Mitt-mentum didn’t it?