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  1. John1122
    The pattern is good at this point and that's about the best we can hope for. Blocking over the top, cold air around, very low sun angle/short days this time of year, and systems working their way west to east.
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    Rick Barnes and the basketball team getting covid is the most 2020 kick to the UT fanbase there could be. Hopefully they are all okay, better yet, hopefully it was a false positive like we've seen before with some NFL teams.
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    The Euro has a storm in the same timeframe as the ICON that has more of an Apps runner look, it's wintry with snow/sleet in western areas of the Valley followed by upslope snow showers for the Plateau and Mountains.
  4. John1122
    The ICON has a snow event starting at 159-162 for the eastern half or so of the forum.
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    That one will be a big time clown map from about Murfreesboro east. Especially with snow sticking around Eastern areas another 36 hours after it starts. Looks like the Euro from earlier except the Euro was so suppressed only Eastern NC was hit.
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    It's shown some version of that for quite a few runs in a row. It just seems to grown the snow shield with each run. I guess it's technically possible or the model wouldn't simulate it. I'd probably say it's a 500:1 shot though.
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    12z Canadian was a bit warmer but still very cold with snowy weather across the Tennessee Valley and well down into the Deep South. The GFS is also very cold with the weird long duration snow event due to the storms rotating through as mentioned by AMZ where it's snowing from December 4th - 8th in at least some part of the Valley region. The Euro is seasonable transitioning to cold and suppressed with a snow/frozen event in the Eastern Carolinas with a massive cold 1050 hp and a storm gathering in Texas at the end of the run. It's quite a tease to say the least.
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    The Canadian went all in again and is stirring echoes of 1989. It has temperatures in the 10s on the Plateau and mountains in the afternoon on December 2nd. 20s elsewhere. Freezing weather and snow showers all the way into the deep south, 31 in northern Florida. In the period right after that the GFS went nuts and dropped 2 feet of snow in the Smokies, 6-10 inches on the northern Plateau and SEKY. Basically fantasy land stuff on that GFS run, but always fun to have winter weather back to talk about. Lets us get a look at model biases early and see if they hold up through winter.
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    The Euro upped the ante a bit for the d8-10 timeframe. Upslope and cold conditions with highs below freezing for a lot of us.
  10. John1122
    The Euro was an Apps runner, right over East Tennessee with some backside upslope snow showers to close out November.
  11. John1122
    The GFS d9/10 has a little Miller A action going after having a cutter earlier. It got our Kentucky areas and was close to more of us north of 40. The storm keeps showing up, but we will see if the GFS is up to its usual tricks. The Euro had some snow showers around in the same time frame at 12z.
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    We are hitting well into the window for December discussion. My best event of winter was on December 12th last year and I believe in 2019 it was a December event for the far Eastern areas. That was as the pattern of a very cold November bled into December. To get there this year we are going to have to count on the pattern to switch in December itself. Hints that it may, at least for a short time, as we head into the last few days of November and first week of December.
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    Hopefully the Vols show some signs of life tomorrow. Probably nothing short of winning 4 of our potential final 5 can salvage Pruitt in my eyes. I expect it to be 1-4 assuming we get and accept a bowl game. I figure since everyone is eligible this year regardless of record we will probably get an invite no matter how bad we've looked.
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    I can't believe it actually happens but the long range Euro control showed +PNA -NAO/-AO in December. I'd be stunned if that came to pass, especially the NAO.
  15. John1122
    A 2 incher hasn't been all that easy to come by for a lot of the forum lately, so that's a happy day of snow. Welcome to the forum, glad you joined and hope you post as frequently as you can.
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    A year ago today we were getting snowfall. It actually was Knoxville's largest event of cold season per WVLT.
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    I use three analog rain gauges instead of a weather station. The weather station one I had was never very accurate in heavy rain situations years ago, it would record way way too much rain. So I just stayed with standard tube gauges. I have them standing, bottom mounted on a flat 2x6s about 12 inches off the ground well away from any trees or anything else in 3 separate areas about 200 feet apart, I base rainfall on the average of the three, though they normally almost exactly the same measurement. A Stratus is the best one of the analog gauges you can get. I've got a couple of weather stations, an Ambient WS series and an Accu-rite I got for Christmas one year. Plus I have a mercury thermometer in a Stevenson screen. I keep the sensors and mercury thermometer around 5 feet off the ground and on the north side so they don't get any excessive sun. The wind speed and rain gauge was never accurate on the Accu-Rite but it worked well for temperature, I always used water on a cold night to make sure thermometers would actually align with ice formation and ice always formed as soon as it hit 32/0c and all the thermometers run in lockstep with each other when I place the sensors beside each other.. The Ambient is a better station overall, but it almost always records a little more rain than an old fashioned rain gauges do, it does better with wind than the Accu-rite as well. Unless new ones have gotten a lot better I'd never buy an accu-rite for anything beyond humidity/temperature/pressure. Ambient seems to work better in most departments other than the tie in temp/pressure/humidity. I have never felt like spending 600 dollar or more for a Davis. They are nice but I feel like I can get enough information using what I have. It's not been that long ago when I did everything with an analog set up.
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    Volcanic winter is a frigid winter, that can linger and causes temps to be 3 to 5c below normal, even into summer. It's caused by aerosolized sulfur in the atmosphere from eruptions. Not sure why he's using it in those tweets as I'm not sure what volcanic activity in the last year or two that was that large.
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    Ended up getting .72 more rain after my last obs, 2.97 total for the event.
  20. John1122
    Picked up .85 in the last two hours or so since I posted that.
  21. John1122
    1.4 inches of rain so far today.
  22. John1122
    I'm shocked at the amount of leaves in Johnson City. Mine are gone. It looks like late November back home.
  23. John1122
    You're in a better place for that to happen that most of us. Western areas may not see anything this year but I think you'll probably have the most chances for getting cold that sticks well enough to have wintry precip.
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    Lately November to Winter has broken opposite of normal, maybe this one will too. However I doubt it very much. I expect a few cold periods in an overall AN winter. We just need the cold to be in place when moisture arrives for a change. It's been crazily hard for that to happen in the Tennessee Valley as a whole lately. The deep south has been more snowy/frozen precip friendly than our forum region the past couple of years.
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    All it takes is getting timing right for one or two events to make it a decent winter. Those have just been hard to come by except for small slivers of the forum area for a few years now.
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