Daniel Boone

Yeah, the most amazing imo was Knoxville hitting -24. -27 at my house west of Pennington gap Va. Couple -30 readings and a -32 reported in rural Wise County near Norton as I recall. What did you record there John ?

Yeah, eastern areas(east of the TN Valley )may very well not see much of the warm-ups at all. I think, as you alluded to earlier as well, we get in on some of them until Blocking asserts. I'm betting we see a couple very warm Days (60's) with maybe 70's western area's. I made a comment over in the MA Sub how we could get around the NPAC GOA Low problems as they're down on that being there as many are. Blocking is the key .Secondly, MJO in cold Phases . Also, gave you a Shout-out about your Pac NW Feedback Idea and how it could very well be the Case. If Jeffs still viewing, what's your take on what Carver's Ideas are irt the Feedback possibility of the Model's in the Pac NW ?

Down to 6 here this Morning. 4 at Daughters house down in a Valley. Saw couple 2 and 3 degree's on Couple Weather Station's in the in the County.

Yeah, we need those Features Opposite of where they are. Hopefully guidance is off with that Depiction but, looks pretty likely until Blocking sets up late Month or those features shift.

Just carrying on there man. Yeah, that's been the fault during the entire cold period overall. Southern Virginia from about Lebanon Eastward to Va Beach have had a great Stretch with plenty of Snow.

Yeah true. Hopefully enough pressure from a favorable MJO and Blocking will get rid of those flies in the Ointment. Once the Nina weakens the STJ should strengthen.

Need it over Alaska and the GOA Low over the Aleutians.

We gotta get rid of that GOA Low and slow down the Pac Jet. The sooner the better . I think, providing the MJO is in cold Phases we'd be alright then. As is , strong Blocking may do the trick.

Models have really struggled this late fall/ early Winter. Carvers gap in the Tn Valley Sub brought up something that could be right. Feedback in The Pac NW. Watch the Cycle's and check out the Runs that keep the East colder. Look at the difference in the PAC NW. Also, Webb has some rather interesting Ideas as well. We , no doubt need to shake any semblance of a GOA Low as we all know but, it is possible to work around it until we do. Chill covered those. The MJO back in Ph 8 hopefully helps as well.

Hopefully the Ridge doesn't do like the guy in thaht Song, I get knocked down, but I get up again, ain't nothin gonna slow me down ". Lol. I just had to man !

That happened in '95-96 as we know. It would Snow and be cold a few Days, warm up rain and even flood some a time or two then cold and snow again. Blocking was the big difference maker that Winter. If we can get strong persistent blocking, I think we'll score some good Snow Events.

The Pennington gap Data for the past 15 years has gotten flat out terrible. We've addressed that before. It's really showing it's print on the Model's now too. The Station Siting is terrible and the Observer's are awful. It's Located at the Sewer Plant now. I'll get a Picture one day and you'll see how off the Siting is from Official Guidelines.

Yeah. I see you found it. Yeah, that would have been the 2 I recall although Pennington itself got 6 from the first one. I don't recall the Feb. One's being what is shows but could of been at that location. I was thinking more 70s in Feb but apparently it was a long stretch of upper 60s and a 70 there. As you can see snowfall was below average. Average in Pennington then was 19.7" as I recall.

Here's Pennington. It was recorded at the Water Plant right on the banks of Powell River so, doesn't do Pennington gap itself justice really. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/past-weather/Pennington gap VA

Here's data from national and State perspective. It's just Temperature. As you can see the Winter, Dec, Jan and Feb averaged slightly below normal. February alone was slightly above. Colder the further west in Southern Plains. I used to have the Data for Pennington. They've changed their Format for Stations Data so will have to find and look it up, also KTRIS. I used to have my own but lost it unfortunately while relocating. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/statewide/mapping/110/tavg/198402/3/rank