PowellVolz

Yes. Looks like it’s in a good position in Mississippi to Alabama but rides a little NE to north Georgia. A ideal track would be from Birmingham to Atlanta or something around that area. 50 miles south of where it is would be really nice .

It’s been very steady the last couple of days. .

I live in N Knox Co and the last two years I’ve exceed my yearly average for snow. So far this year I have picked up 4 inches from two storms. A widespread 8” snow in the East Tennessee valley is extremely rare. .

So close but so far away. Not a good look at all for most of the valley .

A buddy of mine lives in Mt Juliet where the NWS is and he got 7.5” .

Not for a while .

Would be hilarious if they ended up with 8+ inches .

They don’t know. They literally said “your guess is as good as mine” to where the snow sets up at. They also said the mods are all over the place with the track. I’m not clamoring to be something I’m not but I felt like multiple mods where very similar in the track now. Maybe that’s not true though. .

I was thinking it looked good and was also catching up to our storm. Could be quite productive if that secondary system threw some moisture in our area while we are still in a NW flow mode. Edit: for some reason I quoted the wrong post.

No not me. Might have been Tellico but I remember it was thrown out there a few days ago .

Gonna be a close call for the valley .

Seems like someone thought there could be better blocking to the north with a faster system. Maybe a faster system would help the high pressure over the top stay further west? .

Is that the storm where WAA was supposed to takeover the valley but it hugged the foothills and south of 40? I was supposed to go snow/rain/snow for a couple of inches but it stayed all snow and I ended up with 6-8” I believe. I might be thinking of a different storm though. .

I’m still trying to understand where the cold air is going to come from. It doesn’t have to be crazy cold but I’d at least like to see a cold source somewhere other than the top down. .

That ticked back up a little north of 40 right? .

Southern Valley closer to better dynamic cooling? .

One of the things I love about ETn weather are the microclimates. All of us have one but some have bigger influences than others. For my location I know I need a NNW wind to cash in on some NW flow snow. If my wind is straight out of the NW, I’ll get downsloped from Anderson Co. .

So me and a few other guys are on a Tennessee sports message board. I joined that site in 2004 and we have been chasing these storms since then. In the 18 years I’ve been chasing snow on VQ, I can only remember 1 or 2 storms where we didn’t have a temp profile issue somewhere in the column. The valley is always threading the needle but as we go you will see that for whatever reason, interstate 40 turns out to be the R/S line 90% of the time. A good example is the last storm. I’m 20 min north of Knoxville in Halls and the last storm I stayed all snow. One of my good friends lives 2 miles south of 40 in west Knoxville and he was 50/50 rain snow. Knoxville is wild .

We have a surface low that tracking along the coast of the GOM. We also have an 850mb low pressure tracking on or just south or the southern Tennessee state line. The 850 low pressure is basically our weather maker. If we can get it about 50 miles further south it would really open up Tennessee. .

I don’t think they are that far apart and all of them has trended south some the last 24 .

8:1? .

This is what I thought…. But i start to wonder what else the mods have missed on initiation? .

540 up in SE Kentucky .

How much of that is sleet, freezing rain in our area? .

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