John1122

Temp went back down to 31, approximately 1/2 inch has fallen. Nickel sized flakes coming down.

6z GFS has today's snow, another light clipper Sunday night, a storm south of the forum region around 144-162 that snows in a bit of the area, but has oddly little qpf in the colder areas. Then a major winter storm for the Western half of the state at 234-240ish.

Finally started in earnest here about 30 minutes ago. Temp actually went from 31 to 32 when the snow picked up.

Finally started snowing here again. Still at 31, hope to get an inch.

After reading the AFD from MRX the mid-levels of the atmosphere aren't saturated here so that's why it looks like the precip is falling apart. Looks like another hour or two before it gets here.

It's odd, the Western plateau is just eating it up it looks like. It's like its hitting a wall there. Don't know if its an angle thing or what. It just won't move past Fentress down to Cumberland Co.

That's great. Was it from the 1st wave or the bigger wave that's moving in now?

Light snow started here. Hoping to squeeze out an inch or so. 31 degrees after getting down to 28 briefly. So at least the ground is frozen if we can get anything to fall.

Looks like it started breaking up. Wasn't sure if it was the Plateau affecting radar or the band dying out. The main snow per Morristown here is just before daybreak until noonish.

I always love the Star Wars hyperspace driving!

Looks like the edge of the first middle TN band is moving onto the western edge of the plateau.

Looks like Lebanon is about to get it per radar.

Looks like there's a 30-40 minute bulldozer band heading across the state and then steady snow back behind that. Temps in the region are all over the place. 30 here. 32 at the small airport in CC, 15 miles south it is near 40. Mid 30s in SE KY, near 30 in Fentress Co, 35 in Crossville.

Arrived home to a dusting of snow on cars, raised surfaces etc. The temp is 30 degrees. Hopefully we can make some hay over night.

In the gym but this bad boy is right over my house by now.

I'm about to go to a high school basketball game. A heavy snow shower is heading my way but I won't be home to see it most likely. MRX call map has me at .5 to 1 inch. So far this year those have busted low for me between 50 and 75 percent. Hope that is the case here too.

Got back in, no snow in town but it's snowing lightly at the house. Took this picture of a small snow squall over Cross mountain while I was in town. The one before this was much larger and blocked the whole mountain.

I didn't make it 3 minutes down the mountain and flakes started falling at 41 degrees. Cross Mountain, which was already white from this morning, is now enveloped in a heavy snow shower looking at it from Walmart in Jacksboro.

My temp has dropped 5 degrees in the last 15 minutes. Looks like a few bands aren't too far out. I'm about to head to town, they'll probably hit while I'm out.

When the upper levels are good it can snow at 45ish. It's really cold aloft and the warmth is shallow.

I believe it was February 2015 but it could have been 2014. I was in the double digits below 0 around February 20th if I remember correctly without looking.

I had an inch in 15 minutes with one in March a few years ago. Strong wind, 0 vis, it was a 15 minute blizzard.

One happened from the 1st-5thish. It's about a 20 day lag time to truly hit the surface normally from what I've read. There is another split looking like it will happen soon. Heck, WBIR ran a story today about the polar vortex heading this way next week. It's not common we see that in January and when we do it gets really really cold. We were well below 0 in mid to late February last time we got it positioned well for us with no SE ridge interference. It visited the upper midwest a couple years ago but we had a strong SE ridge. It was -25 in Chicago and 60-70 degrees warmer here.

GFS/NAM still look decent to good for this one at 06z. 3k doing its thing and throwing down 6 inches on Cross Mountain in my area. HRRR has some nice snowy streaks. Euro pretty stingy. First Northern stream event of winter, may be able to learn if its a model bias causing the GFS to be so aggressive here or the European to be so dry. OHX goes with a WWA and I honestly feel like JKL will expand theirs later today. Not sure if MRX will, leaning towards not likely other than the standard mtns/SWVA.

Monster winter storm on the Canadian late run. It's been solid at sniffing them out at range this year. Basically says western and southern forum doesn't need electricity. Then pounds some sleet down and then snow too further east. Heavy sleet, snow and freezing rain are still rolling almost forum wide at 240, it's only been going for a few hours north at East of Nashville by this point. 216-240 snow total.