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RadarScope and https://radar.weather.gov/ mostly.

It's a tiny flaked sand blaster at 15 degrees here and a healthy radar. I don't think my weather station is picking up on the wind speed or gusts.

Generally smaller flake size with some bigger ones mixed in, but still steady light to moderate snow at 16 degrees. HRRR still looks on track from what I can tell. We have a solid 4 inches with 5 in the grass as of 6am. Edit: And windy! Snow sometimes blowing sideways. The roof snow blow off is real.

New little band to the west of the main blob is pouring snow currently, 17 degrees.

The super heavy dbz stuff looks to have wobbled over to west Knox, Loudon, and NW Blount. The overall blob is growing towards Madisonville and Tellico Plains. Oscillating between periods of peas with dimes and dimes with nickles here. Pretty dang good rates even when the radar shows relatively lower.

HRRR still good through 2pm for snow in most areas and some far longer than that in the east. Showing a 4 to 7 inch gradient over Knox still! I'm likely between 3 and 4 currently at 19.6 degrees. We reeled us in a good one!

I heard two rounds of gunfire earlier, around midnight. I figure either rednecks were drunk and celebrating or the toilet paper shortage wars have already broken out.

Looking at the mosaic radar it seems like it might be slightly rotating counter-clockwise or wobbling right over east TN, sweeping in the southern areas along the way. Doesn't appear to be going anywhere any time soon, which matches the general look of the HRRR. 19.8 degrees currently here. Hope we can keep the chunky flakes with temps in the teens!

East Knox/west Jefferson/north Sevier really intensified, gotta be wild over there!

I did not expect huge chunky flakes with this system... but I'm over here watching quarters pile up. It's a beauty. 20.7 degrees.

HRRR sticking to its guns, shows this being active through 3pm with remarkably similar totals run to run for this area. Which are actually going up since we already have snow on the ground that it isn't initializing with. Edit: Now ripping dimes and nickels!

Right as I posted the flakes got bigger; now have peas with dimes.

It's happening! As we approach the magic hour the radar is filling in. It is snowing pretty hard on me under that band. Not huge flakes but rippin good at 21.7 degrees. These kinds of rates will add up if we can keep em coming.

Looks like it's trying to form a line that will move across several counties.

The HRRR shows a rapid expansion westward from 1am to 2am and again the next hour. Sure hope the radar blows up like that, will be fun if it does. Currently 22.5 here and if the HRRR is correct it'll be 19 degrees by 2am.