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This is very true for West TN especially the further south and west you go. Memphis is notorious for it. I lived in that area and in N MS for 30yrs with the exception of 5yrs spent in Jackson, MS. I’ve seen so many ice storms. I really hope I never see another one. I’ve seen some of the worst ones and the damage done from them. My grandfather and the older generation used to call the bad ones “Ice-breakdowns”. The name says it all. The February 1994 ice storm is in a league of its own and I hope it’s never repeated again. Some places around N MS had 6-8 in of pure freezing rain. An ungodly amount of ice buildup. Memphis had 2-3in itself. That much ice is hard to describe it’s just devastating! Sleet by itself is also hard to come by, but Memphis also manages to do that better than any place I’ve ever lived as well. I’ve seen 4in of pure sleet and many “concrete mixes” as it’s sometimes called with 2-4in amounts of freezing rain, sleet, and snow mixed. That is unbelievably hard to get around in. You better hope you get an inch or two of snow on top to help with traction for the first day, but when that melts a little from the sun and refreezes into a block of ice, it’s bad, really bad! Hopefully we all get 100% snow this year, and don’t have to see an ice storm. I love snow, but I would like to pass on the ice storms please.

That’s a really nice look!

Merry Christmas everyone! Hopefully the changes we see going forward will work out for the entire forum.

This is the link I where I found the information on Alaska. https://www.currentresults.com/Weather-Extremes/US/lowest-temperatures-alaska.php

I’ve been following the weather for many years. Most years during my childhood (80’s) the weather was oftentimes very cold during the winter and I took note of it. I didn’t write down the dates when the brutally cold air would build in Alaska and Canada, but my dad and I watched it and we knew it would usually eventually be unleashed into the lower 48. I looked it up on google just now and found about 24 cases where the temps were between -70 to the record of -80. These were scattered from Jan 19-20 1952 to Jan 29 1999. The coldest being Jan 27 1989 at -76 and Jan 5 1997 at -77. The ultimate coldest Jan 23 1971 at -80. I don’t see any temps that cold though in the 2000’s. So, there is definitely precedent for it to be lower than -60 with 24 cases at or below-70 in Alaska.

Yeah I saw that earlier. I don’t know about that. Seems a little strange for him to say that. I remember times in the 80’s and 90’s where Alaska hit -70 and lower. I remember one instance where it was even closer to -80! I can remember talk about how airplanes couldn’t function when the temp was lower than -70. So, -60F is not unprecedented at all. I’m not sure where he’s getting the 1000 yr event talk. To me if it was going to be 1000yr event we’d be talking -100 or more. Akin to the lowest temps ever observed on the planet, which happens to be on the other side of the globe in Antarctica.

Wow, the dew point has just plummeted this afternoon. It’s 53 here but the dew point is 5. I noticed at Tri it was 2 during the last observation. Talk about dry!

I was just thinking earlier today, what if the January thaw that we normally get was displaced by a few weeks into December instead of January. Wouldn’t that be something! Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not calling for that, nor do I even know if there’s any precedent for that. It’s just a thought I had.

Currently 8° here at the house. Definitely an impressive airmass for sure!

Last year, the NWS replaced the wind chill advisory with cold weather advisory and wind chill warning was changed to extreme cold warning or something like that. Also, MRX discontinued frost and freeze advisories unless they occur well outside of when they would ordinarily occur. So, basically before October or after May 1. Like it or not, they will likely never issue many, if any frost or freeze advisories or warnings again. Not every state is doing this, but I think OHX and MEG are as well. So you won’t hardly see any of those warnings in TN again.

Wow! I woke up around 1 this morning and was shocked. The heaviest snow of the night was coming down hard. Somehow I picked up between 1/2-1inch of snow at that time. This morning it’s melted from underneath down to between 1/2-3/4 inch. It’s all on the grassy surfaces, rooftops, trees, and vehicles though. Not really that much, if any accumulation on my street. Really an overachiever here. I guess the rgem and RAP pretty much sniffed this one out. Seems like the rgem does really well with clippers, but like others had said, it’s been so long since we had one I forgot what a clipper looks like

Fine flakes but pretty steady to occasionally moderate here now. Light dusting on car and grass

Seeing some flakes every now and then here now

I’ve noticed the rgem was teasing my area a lot the last few runs. The euro to some degree as well

Picked up a nice dusting here at the house overnight and actually saw more in town as I drove in to work this morning. Guessing there was maybe 1/2in or so at one point during the night here in town just judging by what’s left on rooftops and grass.