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    Getting a nice light snow in west Knox, closing in on a half inch at 31 degrees. Hoping that business in NE Alabama holds together!
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    Dimes and nickels on UT campus.
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    Hey man that's great! Is it snowing as well? Currently sleeting on UT campus.
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    Welp, time to winterize the camper!
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    Glad to hear your cover crop is off to a good start Carvers! One nice thing about this friggin heat, I may still be harvesting maters in November. I'm also going to try to get several auto flowering hemp plants done before frost. Seedlings just coming up now.
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    I can't compete in the extract market where people are growing 100's of acres. My niche will be trimmed smokable flower to be sold from smaller shops. It remains to be seen how profitable it will be but I'm going to find out. Here's some pics of the warm season cover crop which is mostly sunn hemp taken last week.
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    That cover crop mix looks pretty good. Hairy Vetch is very good for the soil but can be sort of hard to get rid of. If you plan on tilling the area up next spring then probably not an issue. My main mix for the cool season this year will be turnips and winter rye. I'll dress crimson clover around berry bushes and fruit trees. Right now I've got sunn hemp that is 10 to 12 feet high and growing. It is one hell of a biomass producer and will make a large amount of compost. I put 120 mater plants in the ground this year, staggered over several weeks. Yield has been overwhelming. I've canned until I'm sick of it and am giving them away now. Next year I'll be scaling those back in a big way. I've decided to go all in on CBD hemp. Got my license and several clones already growing indoors. Planning several hundred plants outdoors next season growing in compost made from cover crop.
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    It's downright comical how unlucky my location in west Knox has been with the rains this summer. I had a good downpour last Sunday but nothing since and was dry for 9 days before that. Storms fire on the plateau and steer either north or south of me, or fall apart around Farragut. At least I get to watch the lightning as Maryville gets nailed.
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    My location has been unlucky with the afternoon rains for the past 9 days, until today. Finally got a nice long frog strangler.
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    The thunder and lightning show has been impressive here tonight, I was not expecting that. Big winter storm in 10 days, book it, done.
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    Almost time to get mater seeds planted in the green house! I've used florescent tubes in the past but I'm gonna try to find some cheap LED lights on Amazon this go around. Planning to go probably 2/3rds Cherokee Purples and 1/3rd Pink Brandywines. The Purples seem to be more disease resistant at my location. Last year the Brandywines got that yellow blight and never did really recover properly. I'll supplement the seedlings with some other purchased plants from Lowes but I'm aiming for 100 or more in the ground this year.
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    Oh lawdy mercy! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6647815/Weather-forecast-map-tracking-polar-vortex-looks-uncannily-like-pair-breasts.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
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    Geography. This area is very hard to mathematically sort out variables that determine if the exact timing, precip amounts, and temps that produce borderline rain or snow. Couple that with the fact that climate is changing and historical patterns can't be relied on as heavily as they once were and it's just a tough thing to predict here. Models are friggin fantastic at predicting snow in many/most other areas, especially higher latitudes where these variables aren't a marginal. It's frustrating, but that's just the reality we live in here in the mid south. Best to just take it in stride and find humor in it I say.
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    Congrats to all that got snow! What a crazy system to track with models all over the place. I didn't measure, but it looked like 1 to 2 inches here in west knoxville. Roads are fine. Very beautiful scene, I'm thankful.
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    Beautiful scene here in west Knox. An admin should be able to restore the deleted thread. WTF .
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    This event as it has unfolded over the past several days in video form:
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    Snow Rolls in Iceland: https://www.icelandreview.com/news/snow-rolls-form-on-hafnarfjordur-golf-course/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
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    Holy crap, I had to google Fitzcairn, but you are right! It's Roger Daltrey from The Who but I never knew he played a part in that series! Had this avatar for well over a decade...
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    Would you mind posting the one for Knoxville please? Those charts are one of the best things about a WeatherBell subscription IMO. Thanks!
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    This right here. Unlike the fat flaked snows that we get at 31 degrees, these high ratio cold snows turn the roads into a bumper car arena with as little as a half inch. Counties need to be paying serious attention and, if the modeling holds, plan to just call off school all together Tuesday. Exuberance is building! Let's reel this one in!
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