Today is Friday, August 21, 2026

I’m heading to the Space Coast a week from today to see the August 30 launch of the Roman telescope!

MM’s Hourly Forecast

5-Day Forecast

MM says…Still holding on to shr and storm chances.

6-10 Day Temp & Precip Outlook

MM’s Weather Worries

MM’s Wx Analysis

Several areas of active weather can be seen on today’s weather map. The greatest risk for tornados can be found across northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, including the Chicago area.

On This Day

MM’s Aches-n-Pains Forecast

MM’s Pollen Forecast

Farmer’s Almanac Gardening

Yesterday’s Local Weather Stats

The Crossville Airport is the official reporting station for the plateau.

Yesterday’s Storm Reports

Radar-Estimated Precip from Yesterday

Night Sky

Drought Conditions

This map updates each Thursday.

Drought conditions continue to slowly improve on the plateau!

Last week’s update can be seen below, for reference.

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Special update issued August 20

For the rest of tonight, a chance for storms remains. I’m not too concerned about severe weather but I’m leaving my weather radio on, just in case. If there’s anything you need to know about, I’ll jump online.

Shr and storm have been gradually weakening this evening. However, another disturbance will swing through later on and it may kick off a few more storms. Lapse rates are steep (temps decrease rapidly with height), and that makes for storms that produce tons of lightning (ice in the top of the cloud is a different charge from the water at the bottom of the cloud, helping create abundant lightning).

Like I said, IF something comes up that you need to know about…I’ll be right here (and FB. ha).

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Special update issued August 20

9:50 Update: This storm continues to slowly weaken as it moves east, southeast toward northern Morgan County.

9:25 Update: Our strong storm continues to move across Fentress County. It has weakened a bit but that could change. It remains unwarned but that can also change. It’s a small storm but strong.

A strong storm is moving southeast in Overton County. It’s located just north of Livingston at 8:42 pm. This storm contains frequent lightning and very heavy rainfall, along with very gusty winds. It could go severe as it moves toward you all in southern Fentrss Country (Grimsley, Clarkrange areas). This storm is moving southeast at 25 mph.

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Special update issued August 20

Storms may develop across the area as we go through the next several hours. I’ll keep an eye on them and issue special updates, if needed.

For now, there are storms in the Spring City area that are severe. Those are moving east toward Sweetwater. Other storms may develop as we go through the evening and any of those could be severe. We have a disturbance moving in from the west and plenty of warm and humid air for it to play with! We’ll just watch the radar and see how the situation evolves in the coming hours.

My concern for this evening. We’ll see if this changes in the coming hours.

Other important weather information will be shared when needed. This includes additional severe weather information, model data, drought info, hurricane info, and more. Some of these can be found as tabs to this page at any time.

Disclaimer: This website/app should never be considered your primary source of severe weather warnings.