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  1. John1122
    It is absolutely dumping down in buckets out there now with fairly frequent thunder in the area.
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    Just heard thunder rumble. Snow countdown clock is on.
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    Extremely heavy rain currently falling. My power just came back on after going out around 4pm. Crossed the 3 inch mark as of 6:15.
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    Currently at 2.08 inches since Monday evening. Creeks are high and rising and it's pouring down now with a tongue of 3-4 more inches expected through tomorrow. All this coming off the rainiest year ever here, which followed the prior rainiest year ever with the GFS forecasting 12-16 inches of rain for the area over the next 2 weeks. I've had 162 inches of rain in the past 25 months. That's an average of 6.5 inches of rain per month for over 2 consecutive years. That came on the heels of one of the worst droughts we've seen here. The weather is nothing but extremes these days. Extreme warmth, extreme drought, extreme rains, and on the rare times it's managed to get wintry and cold, it was extreme those winters too.
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    As I figured, the Euro goes from major winter storm to nothing burger. Snow modeling doesn't work in this area. Don't know why, it just doesn't. Meanwhile the massive winter storm it forecast in Texas and Oklahoma a week ago is unfolding as expected.
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    It looks like its throwing out about 3-4 inches in West Knoxville.
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    Probably wrong as it often is, but the GFS is unleashing a massive Arctic blast. Has rain here at 240 but a monster HP at 1049 with temps in the -30 range are in the upper midwest. That arctic air would undercut the system that comes by south of here and probably have freezing precip. Especially western Valley. The SE ridge is often vastly over modeled in the face of that kind of Arctic air mass.
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    Granted it's usually easier at night but as long as it comes as snow and we get good rates, day vs night isn't a huge deal, especially in early February.
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    Another good run of the GFS for most people from the Eastern rim and eastward. Solid 2-4 inches in most of those areas.
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    I'll credit the NAM with schooling the other models on the snow system last week in South and North Carolina. It was the first by far to latch onto snow that far north and west when the other model suites were dry or rain. As usual it was over amped though. So I usually shave 35-40 percent off NAM snow maps.
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    WVLT is already saying 2-4 inches for the Plateau in Friday. 3-5 plus eastern areas. Even with multi model consensus at this point it feels early.
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    Euro came in much better for non-elevated areas from Northern Middle all the way to the Eastern Mountains this run. Not quite as heavy at elevated areas but still plenty of 3 inch totals or more for a lot of the eastern half of the valley.
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    It's probably safe to assume the GEFS is way overamped on the MJO. It tends to try and do that and to have it so high it enters phases it never actually reaches because it verifies much lower than predicted. I would have also in the past went on a sled run with the Euro joining a party inside 5 days that shows me with 8 inches of snow. But these days the Euro is only to be used within 24 hours on snow events in our region. It's excellent at other regions though. It's been all over the Texas/Oklahoma event for a week + and it's probably going to get it almost exact. The GFS had the event but was too far South and East with it. The snow event in NC last week, the Euro didn't catch on until the 12z run the day it happened. Not sure why our region is so tough compared to all the others around the country.
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    00z GFS backed down on the heavy snow from 18z but still has some version of it at elevation. NAM is advertising widespread snow showers into Friday morning still. It was better than other models with the NC snow earlier this past weekend. Maybe it's onto something for Tennessee.
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    These big events (maybe not quite this big) used to happen outside the mountains every 15 or 20 years but alas its been a while. Apparently my great grandfather used to tell my grandfather about this one. He was about 12 years old and lived at about 3000 feet on the Scott/Campbell Co line. He just said snow was up to his thighs during the storm. I'd never known the exact dates though. That looks like an all time southeast valley screw job.
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    With the AO about to set another positive record and the Pacific being bad since December, flakes in the air would be a major win. Let alone even the 1 to 3 the GFS spits out in spots.
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    Nice snow storm on the Euro and under 200 hours. Rarity this season. Really hope we can reel something in here.
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    March has been mixed. One really cold March, a couple mildly BN, a couple mildly AN and one mega torch that was +10. The coldest came in 2013 after a much AN winter. It was -5 to -8.
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    15 finished -.1 at Memphis, -.2 at Nashville, and -.1 at Tri-Cities. There was a +11 in Memphis and a +15 at Nashville in the last 3 days of the month.
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    Out of the AN Januarys all but one saw February be AN to well AN. The one that wasn't was near normal. None went on to see a BN February. Looking at current 10 to 15 day forecasts, the MJO forecast and other factors, I seriously doubt that this one gets to N or BN either. Right now I'd guess we finish at least +3 for February with the potential for that to be far too conservative.
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    Warm and wet.
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    2009-11 were BN, 2012-13 AN, 14BN, 15N, 16BN, 17AN, 18BN, 19-20AN. So 6 below, 5 above and 1 (2015) was about as close to normal as you can get. I think it was -.1 to +.1 at various data sites. Seems skewed because 3 of the 6 were the first 3 years of the period and in 2018 it was BN but ultra dry.
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    The modeled cold has become the modeled warm. Even with a storm to our south and east the temps are in the upper 40s to low 50s on the Euro. There's not a day in the next 10 where the entire forum is sub freezing at the same time, even for a low temp. I believe Knoxville only gets to freezing once in the next 10 days on that run and it was D10. Similar to 1992-93 so far. That one finally snowed more than a trace in late February and then we had the blizzard. I wouldn't count on either of those things happening this year. Pretty amazing that winter snow was likely over by December 12th but it's the climate we live in these days. Two options for snow lovers are to move north or move up in elevation. If you can find a spot above 3 or 4000 feet to move to you'll get at least some snow every year, probably similar to normal amounts at lower elevations from 20 years ago.
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    We averaged +20 during that stretch of January.
  25. John1122
    Are you implying I am cherry picking model runs?
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