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There is a pretty extreme temperature gradient across East TN right now from north to south. It’s 64 in Chattanooga, 52 in Knoxville. It’s 42 at MRX, and 38 at my house about 20mi NE of there. Then it’s 35 in Bristol. Almost a 30° temp swing from north to south. We get some pretty good gradients from time to time but this is one of the biggest in awhile for sure!

A rain snow mix here at the moment in Morristown.

There’s light snow here too and a decent dusting even seeing it stick to the pavement and walkway here at the house.

Have had some snow this evening it’s down to snow grains and ice pellets at the moment though temp is 31.

I hit 40 earlier but somehow have worked my way back down to 32 at the moment. I’m in an area the HRRR showed with ZR for this evening. I don’t think it will last long, but it’s interesting nonetheless!

MRX mentioned that snow cover was having a big effect on temps and that even lower elevations may have a mix of rain and snow this afternoon and then tomorrow night maybe a dusting to a few tenths of an inch of snow.

Clouds kept the lid on the temps today. It was a pretty big bust on temps all around from morning lows to afternoon highs. Looks like it made it to 28 here but back down to 26 now.

Powell posted it in banter.

Oh my! As cold as the temps were I bet that’s making for some bad ice problems! On one hand it wiped out a lot of snow but on the other hand since it’s been below freezing all day I imagine it’s created more problems. Ice mud!

The rgem continues to bring a Lee Side Low through on Wednesday night into Thursday. A sneaky little system, typical of this time of year.

This was the view from my neighbor’s house earlier this morning. Overlooking Cherokee Lake. For reference I’m at the corner of Hamblen, Hawkins, and Grainger Co. Ice is beginning to form in spots on the lake. I’ve only seen that 1 or 2 times since we’ve lived here. An impressive airmass for sure!

It’s currently 1° at the house, and I’m on a hill above the lake. Most certainly is below zero around the sheltered valleys. I also see TRI is reporting -6° Wow! MRX issued a cold weather advisory for just the temperatures as they said they didn’t expect it to get this cold. As others have said, it’s the power of a healthy snowpack. It will do it every time.

There was actually a thin band that moved from NE to SW across Hamblen Co this morning. When I woke up around 6 I noticed it was snowing again. Picked up a tiny dusting on top of some cleaned off surfaces. The band slowly crawled SW and has all but broken up near the Jefferson Hamblen Co. line. I’m not sure what contributed to it other than possibly Cherokee Lake? We’ve seen that before a few times in these arctic setups.

Really curious to know how Carver fared in Kingsport?

Went out and measured again. A little over 6in now! Wow!