I've officially reached satellite sweeping stage.
The difference between here and Crossville at 2000 is stark. I hate it for Shocker. I just saw a photo from around 2000 in Western CC and it's probably 5 inches.
An area 600 feet lower than me, but just to my southwest got 2 inches here this morning while I struggled to a sloppy mixed up inch. It's like there are pockets of random warmth in the atmosphere.
This is the strangest event I've ever seen. The models just showed random slots of rain/mix/snow in unusual locations and I didn't believe it. They were right though.
Changing precip types, then managed to get inside the dry slot for a long time. There's some snow but most models were showing me with 4 inches or so by now. That may be the case above 2000/2200 feet. I've not driven up there but my cousins at 2500 had 3 inches early this morning. Less than half that here.
Solidly in the not boom part of this one so far. Unless the afternoon improves this will be in all-time bust territory here. In 2018 I got 1.5 inches after being modeled 12+. This is competing with that one.
Temp continues to fall and the column is likely cooling. The huge flakes that were happening have gotten smaller, thicker in the air and the visibility has lowered. The huge flakes were some above freezing air from above me to the surface causing flakes to melt into each other.
I started as snow, changed to light rain, went to rain snow, then to snow and sleet, then 10 minutes of heavy rain, now huge flakes of heavy snow. 32.4 degrees.