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MRX evening update raised totals in Knoxville area to around an inch. We shall see…..

I truly think there are way more ways for the valley to lose out on snow than Butch Jones/Derek Dooley could lose football games in 100 years
 
expecting good snow here is like expecting a win when you start JG

Seeing some brine on roads in Knoxville

That’s a great question… anyone have thoughts on this?




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3 hours ago, Holston_River_Rambler said:

Any guesses what precip type I've had this morning? 

Frogs?  Cats / dogs?

Finally sticking! Ripping here. We have had some good rates throughout the day. Just never could stick. As soon as the sun went behind the hill: magic. 
 
 
 

Good rates in Fountain City/Knoxville……just not sticking. Kids just came down the road in an ATV with a big plow on the front!! Gonna be waiting a little while….


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Are we being dry slotted at the moment? Just waiting on the low to slide east? 

North of Mobile AL reporting snow/grauple…….while I anxiously await my incoming warm nose / dry snot slot in balmy sunny Knoxvegas (rant over). What’s the latest on the track of the low? Still going over the apps?


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Forecast for Mt Leconte from NWS

“Winds could gust to 75mph”

Tonight: Snow, mainly after 2am. Patchy fog between 3am and 4am. Low around 26. Windy, with a south wind 20 to 30 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible.

Sunday: Snow before 11am, then freezing rain and sleet between 11am and noon, then snow after noon. Patchy fog before 10am. High near 31. Windy, with a southeast wind 35 to 45 mph decreasing to 25 to 35 mph. Winds could gust as high as 75 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Little or no ice accumulation expected. New snow and sleet accumulation of 3 to 7 inches possible.

Sunday Night:Snow, mainly before 3am. Patchy fog between 8pm and 1am. Low around 16. Wind chill values between -1 and 9. Windy, with a west wind 20 to 25 mph increasing to 25 to 30 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 45 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible.

M.L.King Day:A 30 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 21. Wind chill values between -4 and 2. Windy, with a west wind 25 to 30 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph


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My wife asked me to explain our snow chances in Knoxville using terms she could understand, and not all the technical info discussed here.  I told her "fading faster than a geriatric erection".  She understands now.

24 minutes ago, PowellVolz said:

So me and a few other guys are on a Tennessee sports message board. I joined that site in 2004 and we have been chasing these storms since then. In the 18 years I’ve been chasing snow on VQ, I can only remember 1 or 2 storms where we didn’t have a temp profile issue somewhere in the column. The valley is always threading the needle but as we go you will see that for whatever reason, interstate 40 turns out to be the R/S line 90% of the time. A good example is the last storm. I’m 20 min north of Knoxville in Halls and the last storm I stayed all snow. One of my good friends lives 2 miles south of 40 in west Knoxville and he was 50/50 rain snow. Knoxville is wild


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To add to your post......I live about 10ish miles south of you in Fountain City, and we flip-flopped between a mix and snow.  Think we had about an inch or so of accumulation.  My general approach the last few years is to take the model with the worst output for my area, then shave 75% off that total.  That way my frustration at the lack of winter precip is not preceded by doubt/worry and doesn't come as a complete shock.  Surprisingly (and sadly), that approach has worked quite well in regards to totals the past few years.  

4 minutes ago, Chattownsnow said:

Gawx. A treasure trove of useful data 

Does he run the "DaculaWx" twitter and websites?  Is this the same guy?

Honestly I never use the precipitation depiction.  Correlation coefficient is always the best for discerning Ptypes

Just noticed this huge blob of mixed on Radar Scope. Anomaly??? (pic won’t load)


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Surface temps are not the problem. 850’s are 3-4°c


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Thanks so much! I will check it out!


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Lots of people are saying UT should have kicked a field goal instead of going for it on the goal line. I disagree. My take - Heupel had already gone for it on 4th down on that drive…..so go for it again. Also, him going for the TD instead of a FG was sending a message to the team “I believe in you”. After all the damage the last few whistle-dick coaches have caused - win or lose, it sends a signal to the players that he’s got their backs (and SHOULD pay dividends down the road in team growth/unity). As much as I hate the end result…..I would rather lose from our effort (or lack) on the field, than a terrible officiating call. (Which……..why was that tight end TD for Purdue not whistles dead because forward progress had stopped???)


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22 hours ago, PowellVolz said:

Because of the shape and the fact a full body scan didn’t show anything else, the Doctor is 95% sure it’s not cancer. Yes the tumor caused her seizure from the pressure. The mass is egg shaped but flat and lays between her skull and brain. It’s a little bigger than a softball but it is flat and doesn’t go into her brain. Surgery is July 15th and please pray for us. The doctors feel really good about a full recovery but they won’t know everything until they get in there.

 

 

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Live just a few miles from you.  Feel free to reach out if you need anything.

2 hours ago, John1122 said:

36.5 this morning. That's very chilly for mid May.

46 in Knoxville.  And yet....kids at the bus stop were wearing shorts and a t-shirt.  These are the same teens only wearing a hoodie when it was 23 one morning a few months ago.  

Definitely not the heavy rains / storms that I thought would come through tonight. Hopefully it’s just enough to knock the pollen levels down a bit.


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Prescribed burns in Oak Ridge:  https://www.wbir.com/article/weather/smoke-in-east-tennessee/51-c52e2eb7-4f2a-4b68-b9b0-47668968146b

Very hazy skies in Knoxville this morning.  I assume from these fires?  I can't find any info regarding prescribed burn or wildfire.

10:30 Saturday evening storm in North Knoxville.  Over saturated grounds from rain.  Saw it happen, felt like slow motion seeing it fall towards your house and in direction of where you are sitting.

Sorry to see and hear that!!! I’m in Fountain City also......but thankfully nothing here but soggy yards.

I know it's been said before, but I have to say it again......the new radar that the NWS put out not too long ago is just plain God-awful.  It's worse than the old dial-up days of the internet.