John1122

Haven't been looking past this storm other than the eye popping Euro run. I do see that the teleconnections are basically perfect the first several days of January. Super negative AO. Moderately negative NAO. Somewhat positive PNA. Those scream cold and winter storms here. Heck, I'm already close to 7 inches for the season and it's only December 24th. Barring a massive collapse (which is highly possible) I may get my average of around 16-17inches. Though lately I either have a 20-30+ inch season or I have 5 or 6 inch seasons.

The fog tonight was incredible as I drove home. I was literally a mile away from where I thought I was at one point this evening. You couldn't see Walmart from 100 yards away. I mean not even any light from it.

Apparently Pruitt was maybe paying players and recruits. I have no idea how he could be cheating like Alabama but producing that result on the field. My main hope is that it allows him to be fired with cause and saves UT 12 million in buyout money. We aren't going to be any worse on the field regardless of the outcome.

Tennessee football sends it's condolences as a fellow loser.

With the way last year went and the year before and well, the year before. You learn to appreciate every flake.

Actually had a few snow showers over the last hour dusting the deck and car tops. Little blue specks show up on the radar but it's mostly undetected on there. Temp is in the 20s.

Spent the day in Knoxville, got home about 7:30 and there are still flurries ongoing here. The snow flurries stopped just south of Caryville today as I headed towards Knoxville.

I honestly used to get them at least 3 or 4 days a month minimum from late November to late March. Just doesn't happen any more like that.

It's a raw, cold, snow shower and snow flurry kind of day. Flakes are coming down lightly now. These kind of days have been rare the last few years.

Changed over to light snow at the house. As I drove to town it was mixed below about 1500 feet.

Hit 31 then started rising. Up to 36 right now.

Looks like a decent amount of snow above 2800 feet or so. The entire top several hundred feet of Cross mountain is nicely white.

It would he hard to complain about the start of winter imby. The first two weeks I've gotten 3 inches of snow. Two other days have seen snow falling and there's ice/snow in my forecast in the next 48 hours. The question becomes is this a one off like the last couple of years where winter peaked in December then went away, or is it a 95-96/09-10/10-11 where winter started early in December and just kept coming back until mid February? I'll say for here, the December events of the last two years were basically one offs that led into abrupt pattern shifts to unrelenting warmth. This has been multiple wintry events and the pattern looks very favorable again in another week or so after this.

Had a switch over this morning that didn't amount to anything on the ground really. Not checked above 3000 feet. There was no accumulation at 2500 though it could have melted off.

37 degrees and just blitzing rain. Looks like there's been some embedded snow in areas out to the west but not super wide spread. There's a small area near Montacello Kentucky where some blue is showing up. Byrdstown just Southwest of Montacello in Tn is down to 34 but ptype says heavy rain there still currently.

42 degrees and the rain is actually starting to fall steadily. If I change over I expect it to be after 5am.

I have a friend who lives at the base of the mountain there and he literally gets about half the precip I do a year.

For some reason I expected it to be warmer today. It's a steady 35 and should probably start falling in the next hour, as the sun will set for me in about 10 minutes.

Had a decent snow shower before dark that lasted about 15 minutes.

A few flurries floating around here.

Ended up with .72 of rain from this system. The soaking continues. We are likely to experience another epic drought before long. Something will have to balance the three year barrage of rainfall here.

The complete fantasy but true definition of a board wide megastorm that Warbus mentioned in the pattern thread. Look at it to see what a Tennessee Valley masterpiece looks like. This is about as good as it can get from one end of the Tennessee Valley region to the other. Very hard to pull this off because it is so far geographically from Bristol/SWVA to Eastern Arkansas/Northern Miss.

Just added it up, over 92 inches of rain so far in 2020.

4.83 inches of rain for November makes it my second driest month of the year.

The 1950 storm featured snow on one side and rain on the other. That particular model run featured snow way down here but rain on every side of the storm otherwise. It ended up being the only run that showed that solution.