John1122

It's rare for me to escape March and April without snow in the air at least. Thus far that has been the case. Hopefully this gives us a late season treat.

Spring has sprung and it's brought rain again this year. After a fairly dry two weeks that actually had a few brush fires in the area the rain has returned. 2.75 inches in the last 24 hours. A 3+ inch event last week. Suddenly the "dry" March is well AN on rainfall imby with over 7 inches so far. A dry Friday looks like it's going to give way to another bout of heavy rain Saturday into Sunday. Possibly another 10 inch month this month. Had more of them in the last 24-30 months than most 10 year periods produce.

Added 1.4 inches of rain but 0 severe at all. Virtually no wind, no hail and barely any thunder and lightning.

No severe here as yet but the rain in just extremely heavy. Had already picked up 1.35 inches today from earlier. Likely to be flooding issues here if nothing else.

Regular season Rick strikes again. Terrible job this year by Barnes.

Went to a high school baseball game yesterday where they played right through a hail/rain shower. The hail actually whitened the ground in some areas around here. Today it's windy as all get out and 39 degrees. Feels extremely cold after the run of warmth we've had to close out winter and begin spring.

I prefer football as a whole but this is the best weekend in sports. Nothing has more drama than win or go home for 48 teams over the course of 4 days. Also screw UF/SEC office for not suspending Omar Payne.

Why is there a regular manipulation of data by either MRX or the NOAA? They put out a graphic of snowfall totals from the blizzard of 1993 that doesn't live in reality. It shows 15 inches for Lafollette and I know that area got 22 inches as I personally measured it there. My area was well over 2 feet and above 3000 feet had 36 inches. My county average is 18 inches. I very clearly remember Tys recording over 15 inches and data from the time shows a snow depth of 15 inches at TYS. People I know who lived north of the city recorded 18 inches. They show Knoxville receiving 13.5 inches now and Knox County averaging 13.5. Probably the worst manipulation on the map, it shows Tazewell with 9 inches but official data from the Tazewell reporting station has an observation of an 18 inch snow depth. My uncle lives near there and he recorded 22 inches of snowfall. No idea why this is done in this area.

Usually see those in the Rockies in April. Spring was early this year but not shocking after 3 winter months that all were actually wintry at times.

CAD is virtually nonexistent in the Eastern Tennessee Valley. There may very occasionally be a small amount of cold backing up against the Plateau and not scouring out that can lead to precip staying frozen. The entire Tennessee valley is very prone to the warm nose of systems. Especially the further south/west you go. On the east side of the state it really powers up the valley into Knoxville between the Plateau and Mountains. Historically Knoxville got plenty of pure snow events but these days it's rare that some kind of mix/warm nose isn't involved. The guys who live there could tell you more but they've probably not had 10 pure snow events with no warm nose, of more than 3 inches in the last 10-15 years in all but the far north/northeast ridges area of Knox county. I worked there 5 days a week from the late 90s to 2005 or so and I don't remember seeing snow on the ground in West Knoxville in those 7 years. Granted, those were probably some of the worst winters in East Tennessee history for that area. If you're willing to move maybe 40 miles from Knoxville to the West, East or North you'll basically double or triple your average snowfall because you can find places to live above 1500 feet in elevation, which that extra 400-500 feet makes a big difference in many events. If you can get above 2000 feet you'd see 4-5 times the snowfall of Knoxville in an average year that only would increase every extra 1000 feet up you go.

It was just cold and windy today. I went to a soccer event and it was low 40s with a stiff northeast wind around 5 pm. Felt like January after it had been sunny and 60s the last few days.

Had plenty of thunder here, lets see if the snow follows as it normally does in winter.

Made it down to 29 this morning, but am at 66 right now. After it seemingly being 50 or colder virtually all winter it feels pretty good. I'd always take 20s for the high over it though.

The blitzing rain and overnight warm up are likely ending the last of my snow cover. I suspect there may be a few more snow showers between now and April but think winter in any meaningful way is likely over.

It's wild to me that Holston has had such rough luck this winter. If you go 10-15 miles or so NE to 1300 feet on the other side of Cross Mtn there's been 20 inches of snow. I've had a 3+ inch snow event in November, December, January and February, plus ice and the Alaska level freezing fog for days on end, All with only one day of temps below 10f. Here on the Plateau systems that work for the East work for here and systems that work for the mid valley also tend to work for here to some extent. I'll always prefer a big high over the top in eastern Iowa and Northeastern Ohio and a slider/miller A but my next favorite is anafrontal Arctic events like the one for Christmas. Those are the kind that leads to 24-36 hours of snow in the air and super cold behind the system.

Great Euro run. It's been further north/slower which is its bias. The GFS is further east/faster, also its bias. The Euro ticked south and colder. There's also some heavy sleet on the Euro too.

Granted, it's the GFS at range but the column is great on it for the event on that 18z run. No sign of a warm nose anywhere. Just sub-freezing all the way down to just above the surface and 33 at the surface with plaster dumping.

18z GFS

18z GFS just honked loud that run. Definitely a window to keep an eye on next week.

Euro is still all in for next week.

Getting light snow again this evening. There's a ton of moisture content in the snow out there. It will be skatable tomorrow morning with the low near 20.

25 inches on the season. Very reminiscent of 2010-11 here. It was never blistering cold but it was rarely warm. Had we gotten the cold western areas got IMBY this would have went from a very very good winter to an epic winter. As it is there's been some snow or ice around for weeks here.

Much to my surprise back to about 50 percent big snow flakes. Think it's rate driven.

Up to 31 with wet chunks of ice and melted flakes falling.

Its changing to sleet, but I couldn't be happier. This was a 40 degree rain 4 or 5 days ago.