Would you trust a winter forecast based on worms and spider webs?

On this date in 2000, Tennessee lost Helen Lane, the remarkable weather forecaster who used old-fashioned observations of nature to make predictions — and became nationally known.

Plus the local news for February 17, 2026 and a feature on a local rapper who contains multitudes.

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