John1122

Curious to see if this HRRR midnight sleeting occurs over me.

I got the goose feathers and it stopped for about 10 minutes then picked back up.

This will be a deceptive storm on record books. Tys has I believe 3 inches as the official measurement and Tri a trace. But that won't be reflective of this storm for climate purposes.

Just before dark, still snowing moderately.

Much to my absolute surprise, now I'm getting huge goose feather flakes. Has to be something in the upper levels. I'm at 18.8 degrees.

Oddly, MRX has no additional accumulation in my forecast and only an inch in Knox Co. The latest RAP has 6 inches in Knox from now til tomorrow morning.

The lee side low forms and pushes snow back into Scott County Tn and SE Kentucky according to the RAP. The Knoxville corridor just sits under it for 8-10 more hours and gets another 6 inches of snow if it's right.

Hardest snow of the whole event unfolding here right now. Probably 1/4th vis with nickels falling.

Continued cooling here helping rates. Making the most out of lower qpf.

I've probably not had a flake bigger than a nickel all day today. This reminds me of upslope. We had an event around Christmas in the 2010s where it was about 48 hours of it and I got 7 or 8 inches. Never snows hard, it just keeps snowing and snowing.

I have the temps but haven't had the rates those south of me had. Looks like the 40 corridor had the best of both world through Knox County.

Wind picked up from the nne and the temp is going down a bit.

The "blind" spot on the Plateau just filled in suddenly. I suspect thats some heavy stuff.

The GFS just had it's best run. The other models are determined to not be generous here.

I've been at 21 ever since the snow moved back in but the HRRR does show me getting sleet late this evening. Curious to see if that actually happens. I saw it happened down the Plateau to Knoxtron.

Just crossed 5 inches. If that area of snow around Nashville can maintain as it slides East I can probably manage 2-3 more before this is over. The Knox/Anderson area will probably reach double digits somewhere if mixing stays away.

Is anyone in the band north of Nashville? It's showing a 45dbz streak on the NWS radar.

The radar looked ragged/light but it's very small flakes/pixie dust and it snowed 1.5 inches in about an hour and 30 minutes from 10ish to 11:30. We had been in an extended break before then.

We've had 3 parking lot donuts and two main road donut incidents since 8 am per the scanner.

Radar always looks more impressive for snow the closer you get to the radar site. You can see this with every event where snow is coming at decent rates over a large area. Right now you can see the bands that look very intense in a circle around Morristown, especially south and south east where the terrain isn't as ridge/mountainous. Meanwhile there's a strip of the Western Plateau were it appears nothing is happening. But suddenly returns keep appearing as if areas upstream from there are getting snow but you can't see it.

You guys have been impressively cold for this one. I think that's one of the reasons Mid-state areas over performed, amazing ratios.

Crossing 4 inches as the air is filled with pixie dust. It actually warmed up to 23 degrees earlier but dropped back to 21 now.

Under one of my best bands of the night right now. Solid quarter sized flakes and a lot of them. Definitely powdered sugar/pixie dust at 19 degrees.

I bought two 12 inch rulers the other day for snow measuring because I have a terrible time holding a measuring tape and taking a photo. They looked funny because they had a blank space before the mark start and after the 12. I measured them with the tape measure and they are 12.5 inches long and have instructions in small letters on starting at the mark instead of the end of the ruler. So here i am at 3:30 in the morning trimming my rulers to their actual measurement to measure snow. I at least don't feel so odd after some of the otner revelations tonight. I am baffled that they couldn't just trim the extra off each end of the ruler or set the machine to run them at exactly 12 inches.