Did You Know?

The only thing more frightening than the sight and sound of a tornado approaching is one that strikes while you’re asleep. It comes in the middle of the night, enveloping your neighborhood with dangerous winds, swirling debris,...Read More

Fishing Report for Kentucky and Barkley Lakes

Kentucky Lake’s fishing scene received a reprieve this week from the hot and humid conditions with a few cooler days with lower humidity. Responding to the cooler conditions have been surface temperatures. Temps dropped this week down...Read More

What Are Cold Air Funnels?

According to the National Weather Service in Louisville, a cold air funnel forms beneath rain showers or weak thunderstorms when the air aloft is especially cold. The funnels are most common in the fall and spring time when the...Read More

The Smell of Rain

Most people notice a distinctive smell in the air after it rains. It’s frequently linked with spring, as the smell of fresh cut grass is associated with summer. You’ll find it in a lot of poetry and...Read More

Fishing Report

Surface temperatures this week stayed in the 87 to 88 degree range. Water color is clear across the reservoir. TVA’s gradual winter drawdown is underway so anglers can expect a slow but gradual fall in lake levels...Read More

Hot Car Fatalities

It seems like this has been a hotter and longer summer than usual. That is probably because we went into a summer pattern starting in May with no let up through June and at least into mid-July....Read More

Better Weather Days Ahead

There have been a few scattered thundershowers around this afternoon. But storm chances will diminish after sunset as the cold front passes through tonight. I am so looking forward to a couple of nice days without the...Read More

Sunday Afternoon Storms Bring Power Outages-Heavy Rain

A line of Severe Thunderstorms Sunday afternoon brought heavy rain and left some western Kentucky Residents without electricity. The storms began moving through the area around 12:20, resulting in Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Lyon, Marshall, Trigg, and...Read More

Stargazing the Night Sky

In the western sky on the evening of Sunday, July 15, the young waxing crescent moon will take up a position between Venus and Regulus, the brightest star in Leo. The moon will sit 1.5 degrees west...Read More

FISHING REPORT

Both lakes are slightly below summer pool and on a slow draw down. Kentucky Dam was generating at an average rate of 33,500 cfs this morning. Barkley Dam was generating at an average rate of 17,600 cfs...Read More