John1122

Modeling suggests we aren't done with snow yet. They insist on snow showers and even accumulations along the Plateau, SEKy, SWVA and the Eastern Mountains as we head into next weekend. The GFS has been on this for about 8 days now.

A housing complex in Jellico in CC.

Incredible winds here last night. Schools had to close due to downed trees blocking so many roads. Just before it started raining the wind got up towards 80+ and it was an extended gust that lasted several minutes. I hadn't heard anything like that since we got a massive downburst back in the 1990s. A friend who moved here from Florida said "if you've never been in a hurricane, that was what it feels like."

Winds are reaching insane levels for here. I just gusted to 70+mph. There are limbs flying everywhere and just raining down on my roof.

I have almost as many limbs down as I did from the endless freezing fog last year. Amazingly, the screen blew out of my porch today. It tore loose. Never seen that happen.

Hovered around 35 this morning before the warm front finally made it through. It quickly shot up to 68. The winds have begun in earnest now as well. Probably steady at 25 with 50mph gusts.

For fantasy purposes. The GFS keeps having some variation of this storm. Today it was April 1987.

Had some sleet and snow mixed overnight that dusted car tops but melted pretty quickly. Extremely windy today.

My grandpa and great uncle always said the same thing about the corn getting bent over. They went rabbit hunting that morning.

This is from April 16th 2018, the year of winter in spring here. Accumulating snow fell on March 7th, 12th, 21st and then April 16th.

A few inches in late April isn't unheard of here. When my grandfather was young, we got 9 inches in May.

That one hurt, we have better odds of a true blizzard hitting than we do of going on a deep NCAA run.

The 18z had a major winter storm. similar to the one we just had, around the 29th. It was gone at 0z but it's been pretty good at sniffing them out a long way out this winter. It has a smaller clipper with snow on the 25th at 0z.

It's a mystery how Scott Co went from 6-7 inches to 0 to trace in 12 hours. The maps are pulled from the National Snowfall Analysis page.

A triple dip weak Nina wouldn't break my heart. They are winter gold here normally.

Snowfall Map from yesterday and then today regarding this system. They cover the same timeframe. I don't know how the map changes this much for the same time period 24 hours later. The sad thing is that both are wrong, but the updated one is even more wrong. Things like this is why the significant winter storm snowfall maps end up looking way off years later and why the snowfall record doesn't line up with our memories and observations. The updated map has Scott County with nothing to a dusting. They had 6-8 inches. It has snow totals in my area at 50% of what actually fell. Among my friends at various parts of the county there was 10 near the Claiborne line, 8 in Jellico, 8 in Jacksboro, 10 in LaFollette, 8 in Caryville. You guys can decide if either lined up for your area. The first map was close here. Map from yesterday. Map from today.

That was pretty terrible by the NCAA selection committee.

Me top! Watching the replays late at night on channel 2/PBS.

A high pressure system slid by and we now have SW winds. Those warm things really fast, regardless of snow cover or cloud cover. I've warmed 25 degrees in two hours while sleet and then freezing rain was falling when strong SW winds arrive.

Crazy since they are surrounded on all sides by 5-7 inches. The sun didn't really do much here today. Still have a solid 8 inches on the ground even with compaction and the afternoon sun.

Temps dropping fast as the sun went behind the mountain around am hour ago. 22 and falling.

11 inches of March snow and a trip to the SEC Championship game, if we win tomorrow that will be the bigger surprise.

Yeah, I was skeptical of the 10 inch or more amounts being shown. Expected 5 or 6 maybe but it just kept pouring down hour after hour.

The streamers are like thunderstorm squalls when they do hit. Windy and intense.

Had another streamer around 11am that added 1/2 inch. 11 total now. Figured it was over around 8.