Stovepipe

3 minutes ago, PowellVolz said:

Absolutely agree with this. If it holds serve we might squeeze an 1 or so out of it.


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Not much wind here, just plopping straight on down.  Friggin beautiful.  

I did not expect the radar to hold up this well for this long.  It keeps building, sort of like the hi-res models were suggesting earlier today.  I'm nickel and dimeing my way to a white yard!  Expectations exceeded for sure for a cold chasing moisture event.

Another band about to rake through the central valley.  Maybe that will get me to a full inch on the deck.

35-40 dbz stuff moving south of Wartburg.  I bet they're ripping fatties over there.

This skinny band that just moved through Farragut is dumping nickels and dimes on me.  Best snow of the night so far here.

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!

Dimes and nickels on UT campus.

1 minute ago, Holston_River_Rambler said:

And now.....

the fatties.....

are being ripped!!!!

Hey man that's great!  Is it snowing as well?  

Currently sleeting on UT campus.

9 minutes ago, Wurbus said:

Coldest map I see on the Euro from the Pivotal maps.

 

 

Welp, time to winterize the camper!

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.

16 minutes ago, Carvers Gap said:

Yeah, I was worried about that vetch...I already have it in my garden anyway!   LOL.  120!?  Wow.  I assume you are hosting the TN Valley Wx Spaghetti dinner with that much tomato action!  Keep us updated on the hemp situation.  How do you market that?  I am assuming that is the for the oil which is a big time product right now.  Hey, at least you won't have to can all that hemp.   Definitely going to need a pic of 10-12 foot plants!  

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.

2 hours ago, Carvers Gap said:

@Stovepipe, my garden remained fallow this year.  Going to plant a fall cover crop which I have not done prior.  Going to roll with a mix and see how it works.  Likely will order some garlic as well...was awesome a couple of years ago.  Here is what I am using...thoughts?  Hey, and how has your gradient been this summer.  I am glad to not be watering through this heat!

https://www.johnnyseeds.com/farm-seed/cover-crop-mixes/fall-green-manure/fall-green-manure-mix-cover-crop-seed-2613.36.html

Probably going to add some fall salad stuff and definitely some garlic.  

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.

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.

My location has been unlucky with the afternoon rains for the past 9 days, until today.  Finally got a nice long frog strangler.  

The thunder and lightning show has been impressive here tonight, I was not expecting that.  Big winter storm in 10 days, book it, done.  

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.

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

1 hour ago, Icy Hot said:

Just my own personal observation here but so amazing that we have all these fancy weather models and hi-tech tools in 2019, and man is no closer to being able to determine precisely what , when, or exactly where the weather will be. Only the Creator knows what the future holds. At 5 p.m. it was still 31 degrees and not even a complete dusting and 2 days ago we were under a Winter Storm Watch. Failure to launch in NE TN valley.

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.

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.

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:

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