John1122

My leaves have been gone for weeks. Most of them besides Oak and black gum were gone before Halloween. I was surprised a couple weekends ago when it was still full fall on the ETSU campus and surrounding areas.

This is a new standard for bizarre. Don't think I've ever seen the southern edge of a storm be snow while its raining to to the north and northwest.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A year ago today we were getting snowfall. It actually was Knoxville's largest event of cold season per WVLT.

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.

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.

Ended up getting .72 more rain after my last obs, 2.97 total for the event.

Picked up .85 in the last two hours or so since I posted that.

1.4 inches of rain so far today.

I'm shocked at the amount of leaves in Johnson City. Mine are gone. It looks like late November back home.

Temps fell off a cliff this evening. Down to 35 at 8pm.

Made it down to 27 this morning. Leaf season is done above 1500 feet. A few oaks have some color below that. Early end this year.

1.31 inches of rain after midnight last night. 4.72 for the event and just over 7.2 inches for October. Sunny now in between the next set of rain moving through tonignt.

Not checked the rain gauge yet this morning but it's been hammering down for a few hours and continues to do so now.

Picked up .73 between 5pm and midnight. 3.41 total for the day. Moderate rain coming down still.

I had 2.68 inches through around 5pm. It's been raining steadily except for about a 20 minute break since then. Forecast calls for 1-2, overnight with another .5 to .75 tomorrow. It's got me at about 5 inches for October after actually being below normal for September.

Friend of mine who lives in Oklahoma has been without power for two days due to the ice storm there. They hardly had any wintry weather at all last year.

This day in 1989 we had snow and a high of 36 degrees. November was chilly and of course December was probably the coldest December ever around here. I was at or below freezing for the low every day that month with 24 of those days being in the 10s or lower. Winter spent all it's cold on fall.

Tennessee might go 2-8 if they stay on the SS Guarantano.

32 this morning here with thick frost.

Kansas City is pulling a Vols today vs the Raiders. I feel your pain, Jeff.

October 1995 had several rounds of snow showers mid month and late month. I believe it was a La Nina too.