Final measurement before dark. Settling/compacting basically offset any snow that fell today so it didn't get any deeper. But on the protected snow board I added 3/4ths inch today.
I think it will rotate east as the low moves east. The NAM from 84 hours out showed this for 7pm today, as crazy as that is. Showed the Plateau into middle TN with snow showers and a break between that snow and snow along the mountains.
I definitely beat 1/2 inch. I did see that MRX is going to claim my area got 1.5 inches per a "trained spotter". I saw multiple people from this area (Campbell County) reporting 4 to 6 inches to them but none of those reports showed up yet.
I hope you're all using the clean and measure method. The amount of compaction with this one surprised me. It's fluffy and light and I guess easily compacts. That's why some of you may seem to be accumulating more slowly than you think today.
I actually thought it had stopped snowing here, but had to look something dark colored (vehicle) to see that some of the smallest snowflakes I've ever seen were falling. I get a few dime to nickel sized flakes then back to micro flakes.
This live cam from down in town shows how ineffective salt is in this weather. This is Hwy 25w/63. TDOT had heavily pretreated and spread salt through the night.
https://www.resortcams.com/webcams/downtown-lafollette-tn/
I was surprised to find almost an inch of compaction in one of my measuring spots from last night. I didn't take any measurement at all from 4:30 am to 8am. I was at 5.5 inches in that spot, from 4:30 to 8 my cleaned off spot accumulated .75 inches, but the measuring spot actually went down to 5.25 inches.
I'm down to 14 degrees and it's back to absolutely pouring down again. Vis around 1/4th mile. The radar doesn't even look impressive but even seeing returns at all on the Plateau when the DGZ is almost to the surface, is impressive.
It's been crazy how it's just sat in place. The bands, as you guys are now getting to see, are darn fun. That's the best and worst part about ULLs. At times their banding may give an area 6 inches, and 20 miles away that area may only get an inch.
I have a spot where I measure and a spot that I clean off every three hours to measure. That will give you a good idea of your rates. And in cases where the snow is wetter than this, it will give you a better measurement of how much snow actually fell since you won't have as much compaction.
I think the 10+ projections from models that way will probably verify. The ratios are incredible so it will really stack up. I can't account for micro climates there because I don't know them like the folks who live there. But I did see that this was overperforming around Bristol at least. And Tri had 5 inches 2 hours ago.
Looks like the radar is about to light up over TellicoWx soon. It's quickly filling Blount County and extending down into Monroe County now.
I see that the Tri-Cities has 5+ already and Tys over 2. Hopefully our NE Tn crew us doing well. I hope Holston's snow hole wasn't a thing either.