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    Little foggy in Louisville this morning
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    The outflow into the valley from the big storms on the plateau near Chatt to Dayton is so cool (if that's what it is going on)
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    Cant catch a break with rain in Louisville TN, barely got 0.2" over the weekend, just making the pollen mad Last 30-day percent of normal precipitation map... quite a cutoff over the central east Tennessee Valley Cool Gif of the storms rolling thru the valley last night. Some of the thunderheads must have gone pretty high, taller clouds definitely caught a lot of sunlight at sunset. https://media.giphy.com/media/7ThBVIjSZ5fkP8fCsc/giphy.gif
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    Cool looking water vapor map this morning with the low-pressure system over Cuba! Was really hoping for a good soaking rain but the SREF DProg/Dt says otherwise for Knoxville... wonder if there is any relation to the large convective flare-up in ne Mexico?
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    Did Fairfield Glade just spontaneously combust??
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    I can attest to how busy the garden centers were this weekend! Cleared out the brush trying to overtake all of my blackberries... only to realize I just made the deer's job (finding the tasty blackberry flowers) much easier haha. Haven't tried a garden at our house yet (did a couple of potted veggies last year), still amending the very poor shalely soil. Really good at growing crabgrass Planted a bunch of triple crown and natchez thornless blackberries two years ago and they have probably quadrupled in size the last few weeks. Hopefully, I get ONE damn blackberry this year hahaha. May have to fence it... or just enjoy the cute critters drawn to it
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    Based on my experience as a geotechical consultant the majority of our slope failures (in fine grained material) are rotational slump. The natural topography is very steep in that bend and roadway benching/cutting changes the driving wedge vs resisting wedge and friction dynamic. Young trees in nearly unstable steep topography will usually have gradual bends associated with long term creep (very shallow seated movement but is generally continual movement). You're right about zigzag of the trees of on very long term rotational slump that stops and goes every few years, but we'd be talking muuuch bigger old growth trees to see that yet. Either way, lots of options to fix but likely not cost effective to do much stabilization. Likely will always be a nuisance spot
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    Looking at the trees upstream, may not be the last of this slide haha
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    Good catch, pivot relatively close to the valley... looks like some topographic effects causing the east to west movement to slow..?? Let me know if posting these GIFs are giving people issues loading the page
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    Sloooooooooooow Mover!... almost looks like it went back west haha The downsloping over the Sequatchie Valley is epic, wish I could have made a drive there!
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    https://www.wbir.com/mobile/article/news/local/prescribed-burns-planned-for-smokies-and-nc-thursday-and-friday/51-537639224 Prescribed burns in the Smokies
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    Got a nice surprise looking at some of my images yesterday. Caught what appears to be CME (coronal mass ejections)! They appear to move in between photos... so cool!
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    Thanks! I debated taking photos as I didn't want to risk losing the moment! I went full lazy on these photos Panasonic lumix g3 (micro 4/3rds) - 200 to 300 mm zoom lense - not very good to astrophotoagraphy! Manual focus (focused on some clouds a few minutes before totality). Set it at the sun on tripod and put lens cap on Set at aperture mode (set aperture at 8), auto iso, manual Kelvin value set white balance, offset center metering mode Set each photo to be a 7 bracket metering photo (each push of shutter button takes a light balanced photos, and 6 more photos at +/- fstop of 1, 2, and 3) Finally, I used the time lapse feature on my camera with a 1 second delay. All i had to do a couple seconds before totality was take lens cap off and push the button! Esentially took 100 photos during totality with no input I plan to produce a HDR image from these photos sooner or later. Sorry for the book, I love astrophotrogrpahy!
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    That was amazing... I am definitely chasing the 2024 Eclipse, 2:30 wasn't enough!
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    Long time lurker, dont have much to add on weather but I am so stoked about this, bought my welding goggles 4 years ago haha. Saw a partial solar eclipse in 94, still remember it vividly to this day! My wife and I just bought our first house in Louisville TN. We just happen to be right on the edge of totality. According to http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2017_GoogleMapFull.html we will receive 50 seconds of total eclipse. Eclipse starts at 1:04 for us, totality at 2:34, and ends at nearly 4 I have plenty of room in our yard for folks if they are interested! We have 180 degrees of open sky, so no issues as long as the clouds work with us Parking would be a pain, but we can figure something out.
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