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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.

A heavy sleet band just plowed through I mean just smoked us! Only problem was it only lasted for about a minute or so. It was cool while it lasted. Tried to coat the walkway and grass. The temp fell from 40 to 38 during the time. That was unexpected, at least by me!

37 here at my house on the border of Hawkins/Hamblen Co

Been seeing some flurries here as well this evening.

Now seeing some sleet here as well.

I was working in Camp Creek earlier today and took this picture around 2PM. It’s winter meets Fall! Still some color down low and color up top!

In a very cautious but interesting twist, MRX just put nearly the whole CWA in an advisory. Updated the forecast discussion to mention that they feel the CAM models are correct with numerous snow showers developing between 11AM-3PM and that there is high confidence of heavier bands setting up which will reduce visibility and make travel difficult. They do say they do not have much confidence at all in where the bands will set up. Out of an abundance of caution feel it necessary to issue an advisory. Hmmm that doesn’t sound like the MRX of old haha! Good to see them acknowledge the potential!

Getting a nice snow shower here this morning. Woohoo! First of the season. Nice little dusting on the car, grass, and leaves.

I agree about Morristown/Dandridge. Including Jefferson City and Talbott where the NWS is located. I have a buddy near Panther Creek State Park who picked up 1.25in at his house. I only got .41 at my house though as the heavy rain fell apart as it moved NE. The same thing happened again today where the west side got heavy rain and barely any to show by the time it got here.

It’s been an incredibly wet week here as well. We had 3 rounds of storms today, the last one was like a wall of water! It was insane how hard it was raining! The wind blew so hard that it blew tons of leaves off trees everywhere, and even blew down some trees around here. Also, we had a couple minutes of small pea to dime sized hail. Unfortunately, I don’t have a great idea of exactly how much rain we got bc my weather station picked up a bunch of leaves from the trees across the street. My neighbor had over 4in of rain in his gauge but he said that was a combination of today and Tuesday. As some others have mentioned, at least here in E TN it has been very wet from the last part of July through August, and that is continuing. I’ll take it! After living through 2016 and some very dry years the last few years, I’ll agree, it’s nice to see it rain like this!