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  1. John1122
    There's so little water content, any sun will zap layers quickly, even if it's frigid.
  2. John1122
    I hope you're all using the clean and measure method. The amount of compaction with this one surprised me. It's fluffy and light and I guess easily compacts. That's why some of you may seem to be accumulating more slowly than you think today. I actually thought it had stopped snowing here, but had to look something dark colored (vehicle) to see that some of the smallest snowflakes I've ever seen were falling. I get a few dime to nickel sized flakes then back to micro flakes.
  3. John1122
    Snow has taped off to light here. Right at 7 inches fell using the wipe method. Approximately 6 inches max depth.
  4. John1122
    I see the OB is snow and blowing snow in Chattanooga, temp 18. How often do you guys see that?
  5. John1122
    This live cam from down in town shows how ineffective salt is in this weather. This is Hwy 25w/63. TDOT had heavily pretreated and spread salt through the night. https://www.resortcams.com/webcams/downtown-lafollette-tn/
  6. John1122
    I was surprised to find almost an inch of compaction in one of my measuring spots from last night. I didn't take any measurement at all from 4:30 am to 8am. I was at 5.5 inches in that spot, from 4:30 to 8 my cleaned off spot accumulated .75 inches, but the measuring spot actually went down to 5.25 inches.
  7. John1122
    Oh and it's 11 degrees.
  8. John1122
    Moderate snow, vis around 1/2 mile. 6.5 to 7 inches. It's gotten hard to measure due to wind.
  9. John1122
    I'm down to 14 degrees and it's back to absolutely pouring down again. Vis around 1/4th mile. The radar doesn't even look impressive but even seeing returns at all on the Plateau when the DGZ is almost to the surface, is impressive.
  10. John1122
    The HRRR snow expansion down the valley and along the foothills is happening before our eyes in real time.
  11. John1122
    At these temps the pre-treatment is way less effective. Could the sounds have been a wreck?
  12. John1122
    It's been crazy how it's just sat in place. The bands, as you guys are now getting to see, are darn fun. That's the best and worst part about ULLs. At times their banding may give an area 6 inches, and 20 miles away that area may only get an inch.
  13. John1122
    That's ripping. I can never get good photos of snow falling!
  14. John1122
    I have a spot where I measure and a spot that I clean off every three hours to measure. That will give you a good idea of your rates. And in cases where the snow is wetter than this, it will give you a better measurement of how much snow actually fell since you won't have as much compaction.
  15. John1122
    I'm down to about 1/4th inch per hour now, hopefully it can keep up here until 9am at least. That would get me another inch and a half.
  16. John1122
    I think the 10+ projections from models that way will probably verify. The ratios are incredible so it will really stack up. I can't account for micro climates there because I don't know them like the folks who live there. But I did see that this was overperforming around Bristol at least. And Tri had 5 inches 2 hours ago.
  17. John1122
    That's when I started really accumulating fairly quickly. It got up to about 3/4ths inch to 1 inch per hour for a few hours.
  18. John1122
    Looks like Hamilton is getting in on the action now.
  19. John1122
    Looks like the radar is about to light up over TellicoWx soon. It's quickly filling Blount County and extending down into Monroe County now. I see that the Tri-Cities has 5+ already and Tys over 2. Hopefully our NE Tn crew us doing well. I hope Holston's snow hole wasn't a thing either.
  20. John1122
    This isn't quite developing the way the HRRR seems to think it should, which was down the Apps and expanding NW, but a big shield is developing over the Plateau and its heading towards the valley. The radar does look like it's itching to explode down the 75 corridor to the mountains of SE TN.
  21. John1122
    5.5 inches, tiny flakes but very thick and foggy looking, its 15 degrees.
  22. John1122
    Looks like radar is filling in back to the South west too, with a solid area that may move over everyone south of 40, provided it survives the Plateau.
  23. John1122
    You may be a little too far from the radar for it to see that band well. I hope some of our Knox crew us up, looks like heavy snow sagging across them.
  24. John1122
    Looks like the band is beginning to sink into West Knoxville. Oak Ridge looks to be getting nailed currently.
  25. John1122
    1am down to 17. I'll get very gusty winds that blow snow, and then it calms down for a while. It's mostly blown snow off the trees.
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