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9 minutes ago, PowellVolz said:

Not sure it matters but surface winds according to a big American flag in downtown are out of the NE.


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That’s just about always a good thing for the valley!

Looks like I dropped to 17 earlier but now back up to 19 with clouds moving back in. Dewpoint is 17 though. 

Wow that’s some serious ice!!

13 minutes ago, Shocker0 said:

I have plenty of pics I could share from that event if interested. Worst weather event I've been through besides possibly the 1998 freak snowstorm in SEKY (I was only 5 in the Blizzard of 93). That whole week of 2015 was awful here.

Yes share away! I always enjoy seeing weather pics especially winter time weather pics.

Found this storm in the archives:

Here @Carvers Gap does an excellent job explaining what appears to have happened.

In regard to that previous storm-it was February 21, 2015. I just went back and found it. I’ll put a snippet in banter since it’s not pertaining to this storm, although it would be nice for some if it could play out this way and it would be terrible for others.

11 minutes ago, PowellVolz said:

It was either 2018 or 15. I cannot remember but I 100% remember the setup and what actually happened. Ober Gatlinburg had rain with mid 40’s. I’m 10 miles N of Knoxville and never broke freezing, ended up with 4-8” of snow and a little sleet.


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It would be 2015 then bc 2018 was not a kind year to the eastern valley.

I remember several years back (would have to look back through the threads here, but it’s here somewhere)  where a front end thump was looking to change to rain but it just never did in the eastern valley. In the foothills and mtns it warmed up to nearly 50 degrees, however it stayed in the 20’s to around 30 in the valley and stayed snow the whole time! Ended up with 5.5in at the house and I know some places just north had over a foot! That was about as strange of a situation we could ever expect around here. The thinking was that somehow there was a cold pool aloft over the valley and that the warm nose hit the mtns and just never was able to penetrate back to the west. Extremely rare system indeed. 

Pretty decent snow shower rolling through here right now. Temp is down to 23.

I see Memphis is at 1. That is also the coldest that they have been since sometime in the 80’s. Perhaps even more impressive is the reading of -1 in Dallas TX and 2 in Shreveport LA! A testament of just how strong this Arctic airmass is.

Lightning! Had to wait a long time to hear the thunder though! 42 degrees and pretty heavy rain

Looks like Memphis official total was 5.3in today! I lived there from 1995-2006 and we never had more than 4in out of any one snow storm. Also, I don’t think they’ve had anything like that in Memphis proper since I moved, so that would have to mean that you have to go back at least 26 years to find a snowfall of that magnitude in Memphis!

Just wow at this AFD from JAN (Jackson MS). Worth reading it just to see the extent of this historic airmass. Lake effect clouds and possibly snow streaming southeast from every lake in east TX!

6 minutes ago, Holston_River_Rambler said:

Looks like @AMZ8990 is about to get the right front quadrant of the 850 low, lol:

 

next image is 850 winds and 850 frontogenesis 

 

 

Thanks Holston! I wondered why my sister in Oxford was seeing a dry slot develop, it’s bc the 850 low is moving almost directly overhead. Hopefully they can switch to snow on the backside. It’s been all sleet there so far. About 2in of it too! 

I didn’t see anyone post the crazy Uncle Canuck today? It had light snow across the whole state early next week. It tried to bring in some ice/sleet in the east but the cold deepened just in time it looked like to keep it all snow. It’s the only model that I saw that had that solution today though.

MEG added another county in N MS to the advisory. Lafayette Co. is now included. My sister lives in Oxford, she told me she was wondering if they would be added. Sure enough. Expecting up to a tenth of an inch of ZR there.

I see Kmem is currently reporting 30 degrees dewpoint 29. Fog and mist. Looks like it’s about to get cranking there!

I definitely would enjoy a 12+ event here too, as I’ve never experienced one in my backyard. There have been some where I’ve lived, but during the time I’ve lived there, it just hasn’t worked out for me to experience it. Now that said, Memphis is probably overdue a big snowfall more than any other city in this state. I couldn’t tell you when the last 4in snow there was, and certainly not the last 6 or 12in snow was. I’d say you’d have to go back to 1988 to find a snow of greater than 6in for Memphis. It’s funny though, bc if you look at their records, 12in events used to happen even there about once every 10-20 years on average and sometimes, like in the 80’s it was even more common than that.  Snowfall in general has been less than normal across the whole state, but it seems Memphis has suffered the most, followed by Nashville, then Chattanooga. The Eastern Valley has done better this year and really the past couple, but you’d have to go back to 2015 and 2016 to find the last good ones even here until the Christmas storm came around.

This little event here melted faster than frosty flippin burgers on the 4th of July! Wow! We had just ever slightly more than an inch, but it literally started melting right when it quit and then the sun came out and it’s nothing but a memory. A good memory of ups and downs of tracking and scoring, even if it wasn’t as much as I was hoping far, it was still nice. Brings my seasonal total here to 10in. Nice to hit double digit snowfall (even if I did have to nickel and dime my way there) again for the first time in several several years!

Have right at an inch now and still coming down pretty good

Rippin big ol quarter to half dollar size flakes! Easily the heaviest rates of the night by a long shot!

Moderate snow coming down now pretty good. Quarter sized flakes. Had apparently been in a lul for awhile as we just couldn’t get any heavy returns to pass overhead. At this rate maybe we will make it to an inch, but just not really sure.

Had to get some sleep, but just woke up to see the ground turning white and snowing at a pretty good rate. 

1 minute ago, CG2 said:

Here is WxBell for the same run...I don't even know what to say.  

Looks like a repeat of February-March 1960!

Fwiw Euro seemed to have a big jump just now at 12z too. I can’t get kuchera ratios, but here’s the regular.