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My non fruiting cherry tree has already bloomed and was 75% green before the cold snap. Redbuds and Dogwoods are my biggest concern. .

You have a link? Would like to see that. .

Well it’s flurries here. [emoji23] .

Also we are getting some flurries .

Knoxville got lucky. Low temperature was several degrees higher than expected. Didn’t get below freezing and just enough wind to dry the dew up. .

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR7rDT6o/ .

I hope we make it to Duke. Apparently our first game has the highest upset percentage .

I hope Tennessee does well but I’m not feeling it unfortunately. This team had no identity on offense before ZZ went out. Just gotta hope we can get the ball up court and we are lighting the 3 ball up. .

I was saying the other day this pattern we had felt like 2016 but the cold snap that year happened right before Easter… .

I think my Otto’s are shot, although they never look good until summer growth kicks in. Would take a stick of dynamite to get them out. .

Oh no.. that’s not good at all. Hate that for ya. .

My Nellie R Holly tree looks really good as of now. .

3 nights in the mid 20’s this week, 3 more this weekend. Dogwood’s, Redbuds and Azaleas are toast. This is 2016 all over again except it was in early April then. Most deciduous shrubs that are starting to releaf will likely be lost. I’m going to cover my Japanese maple and put a light under it. .

Thought I would drop this off here. It’s a “season preview” and prediction from a YouTube Met that I personally believe does an excellent job on his site. The cliff notes are he looked and came up with his analogs that closely match the pattern we are in, or going into to. These are his analog years…. Closest years to this year are 1976 and 2002. Next is 2018 and 2009 and last is 2012 and 1965. All of these years except for 1965 basically played out the same. A very active end of March into April for Dixie and then everything moved more towards tornado alley for May into June. All of these years had well above average tornadoes but these years did not have many significant tornadoes except for 1965. 1965 was a weird analog year because it lined up well with our setup and predicted pattern going forward but it was overly active with several significant tornado outbreaks and several significant tornadoes. Oddly enough that MTn and ETn was very active in 1965. Here’s the video, it’s about an hour long. .

Watched Ryan Hall’s video and he believes after the first week of April there’s potential for April to be very active severe weather wise. He agrees with @Carvers Gap that basically starting next week through the first week of April is going to be quite chilly. Lucky!!!! As of now it doesn’t look like widespread vegetation killer cold is coming. I’m sure we will have a few nights below freezing but that’s expected and the majority of plants/shrubs can handle most of that. Just need to stay away from multiple nights of mid 20’s. .

Which way? I haven’t looked the last couple of days. .

So… not that I’m disappointed but was WAA in the ML the limiting factor here? I haven’t seen any after storm analysis but ML mixing was too moist? .

We had a few weeks of 75-80 degrees. Everything was blooming, even Bermuda was coming in. Then we went extremely cold right before Easter. I replaced 80 Crept Myrtles that summer. Then we had the end of summer drought that led to the Gathering fires. .

The winds became much stronger an hour after the QLCS went through .

Anyone feel like this is a 2016 repeat? .

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Looks like cells are trying to intensify as they move into the valley .

From Cookeville .

Watching that cell over Spring City moving NE towards west Knoxville .