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I found a place to camp about 10 miles south of Crossville. There is probably a few hundred people camped out here in this big field on a farm. You can see in all directions for a good distance. They had a big bonfire this evening. Wish today's weather can repeat for tomorrow. Hopefully CU buildup won't be a major problem but you never know. 2 minutes and 40 seconds of totality is forecast here.

Go to an eclipse party/viewing event/popular destination and bum a pair off someone. Most folks I know who bought eclipse viewers bought them in packs of 5, 10, or more to guard against damage and to share with observing neighbors.

Okay, I've been all over Kingsport and not a store has the glasses left. I really messed up on this one. Any suggestions?

We have a place reserved in a field in Niota, TN. Hoping for fair weather in order to enjoy the 2:36 of totality at that location. Good luck to all who are chasing and or observing this once in a lifetime event! 

On a side note, I purchased a 10 pack of certified eclipse glasses in April for $12 in preparation for this event and that same 10 pack is now selling at the same vendor for $100!  

Okay guys I've have been really lazy in making plans for this event. Do y'all have any suggestions on a good location to view the eclipse from. I really wanted to go to the Smoky Mountains but it seems like traffic will make it a logistical problem if it ends up being cloudy and I have to move. Is a location on the plateau better? I kind of wanted to get to a place where you could see out in the distance a good ways.

Also is there any local places like hardware stores that are selling the glasses? I fooled around and didn't order any online and now the prices have skyrocketed.

Hello guys, I am in the mountains of TRI. I've read the forum for a couple of years now and I am glad they split up NC from TN. The SE forum is really the north Carolina club, which their's nothing wrong with that except they don't use location qualifiers over there. You'll often see this or based on model runs that they give no location for. I will be primarily in the banter forum as I have much to read and learn first, but I am glad to be in the tenn forum where people at least strive for objectivity and use the necessary qualifiers etc

Welcome! We are glad to have more posters. Feel free to ask anything. No question is a stupid one here. I'm still learning a lot. Weather is a very humbling hobby. We have some very good people here so you should pick up the learning curve quick. It was hard to weed through all of the talk in the southeast forum before we seceded from them. Your right the SE forum was basically all NC. There might of been 1 out of 20 posts about the TN valley and Alabama/MS. But we started from the bottom and now we're here (lol). You couldn't of picked a better time to join.

Today I went and ate at a catfish place that had a beautiful overlook of the Smoky Mountains and the French Broad River just outside of Sevierville. It is right next to an adventure park where you can zipline and walk out on the sky bridge. I'll have to come back and try the zip-lining!

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WxUnderground is good for historical surface obs: http://classic.wunderground.com/history/airport/KATL/2014/1/3/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA

 

Iowa Mesonet has Nexrad Radar back to 1995: http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/current/mcview.phtml?prod=usrad&java=script&mode=archive&frames=70&interval=60&year=2010&month=2&day=4&hour=13&minute=35

 

NOAA Reanalysis Maps for sfc and upper air: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/composites/hour/

 

Plymouth Reanalysis Maps for sfc and upper air:

http://vortex.plymouth.edu/reanal-u.html

 

http://vortex.plymouth.edu/ua-r.html

 

http://vortex.plymouth.edu/u-make.html

1. Daily wx maps up to 2004:

 

http://www.lib.noaa.gov/collections/imgdocmaps/daily_weather_maps.html

 

 

2. Unisys back to 1/1996:

 

http://weather.unisys.com/archive/index.html

 

 

3. NOAA four maps on one reanalysis back to 1950:

 

http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/ncepreanal/

 

 

4. Every six hours of reanalysis back to 1948:

 

http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/Composites/Hour/

 

 

5. Plymouth State upper air 1957-98:

 

http://vortex.plymouth.edu/ua-r.html

Stole these from the Southeast Forum.

Also here's the Mesoanalysis page from SPC. I saw the link to the SPC Main page but I thought it would be good to include this one.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/mesoanalysis/new/viewsector.php?sector=17

Weather Glossary that has definitions for just about all weather terms:

http://www.weatherzone.com.au/help/glossary.jsp

Here are a few websites I look at that I didn't see on the list.

Meteogram Generator:

http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/~ckarsten/bufkit/image_loader.phtml

Cool Wx (I use this site to look at precip type and accumulation for NAM, RUC, and GFS, also has a lot of other stuff like mesoscale analysis stuff - temp, dewpoint, etc.) Only problem is that they only have two sites for TN: BNA and MEM.

Example from 18z NAM for BNA:

http://coolwx.com/

This next website is a another TN weather forum but it also has some nice maps on the side for the WRF Simulated Radar, real-time radar, temp, jet stream, satellites, and many many another things. I look at this website a lot and I know some of you have been on it before and are members.

http://www.tnweatherspot.com/

Winter Prediction Center's page(WPC) has probability maps for snow, freezing rain and other stuff.

http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/wwd/winter_wx.shtml

Does anybody remember this little event on Morristown's page?:

Local Weather History for December 31st......

Winter storm dumped 2-5" snow over the area in 1997.
4-8’ fell in the mountains.

I got a chance to play golf Saturday as the temp got up into the 70's. Any time you can play golf in December is an added bonus! That is the only thing I hate about winter is that I can't play golf. So I'm not always mad when the AO spikes positive!

Thanks Mr Bob, Stovepipe, Carvers Gap, tnweathernut and everyone else this has been a long time in the making!