Carvers Gap

The wind yesterday was howling. We lost power for roughly twelve hours.

@PowellVolz, that is an amazing video that you posted on the VQ about the tornado that was in New Orleans. As @AMZ8990 notes, stormy day indeed.

Looks like very high winds in the mountains and foothills overnight.

Beware of using the Euro Weeklies during shoulder season, but they are not warm after this week. Quick warm-up after this weekend, and then looks like potential for prolonged cooler weather after that.

Fun story which I have shared before and also recently. On June 14th, I saw a "lower" elevation snow in Yellowstone. It was 5" of snow at 6,000'. That is not uncommon out there during June. We had beautiful weather for several days, and then winter storms packages were posted from the NWS. I could literally see the cold/snow roll in from the Madison Range. It was just a wall. I have also been in a meadow fishing in YNP when a lightning storm hit. It rolled in so quickly, we could barely get out of the meadow. It began to hail, and temps probably fell 20-30 degrees in about 30 minutes. Message for the day...wild weather swings can and do occur even here in E TN. That is by no means a certainty, but that makes weather fun. I will get a look at the Weeklies here in a bit. I don't foresee a warm spring, so enjoy these days. Looks like BN temps may return for the early part of April.

If anything, there is a significant signal for a couple of big mountain snow events. Our folks in western North Carolina may see some big numbers. Both the GFS and Euro at 12z reflect that. I would think the Plateau may not be done either.

Yeah, the weather is nice! I like it. The 12z Euro has 4-6" in the mountains for the weekend(this Saturday) along w/ snow showers in the valleys of NE TN. There is also a lower elevation event along the northern TN border in fantasy land - day9/10. Both of the biggest snows IMBY this season occurred after big warm-ups. The pattern this winter has been for big warm-ups followed by sharp cold snaps. Let's see if that continues into early spring. Now, we are just about on the outside edge of what climatology allows terms of accumulating snows at TRI. One of the things I learned out west, warm temps can be gone in 3-4 hours with a strong cold front. I would think it unlikely to see another valley snow greater than 2", but I would still put the chances for that between say 25-30%. There are a TON of systems coming out of the GOM and getting cut-off. Most of those will be cold rain. If we get a decent cold front to time with one of those, game on. Here at TRI, I have seen accumulating snows into the first week of April - rare but no without precedent. This year's patterns could yield a surprise. For now, I have been working in my garden, but I have not taken down the hoop house or cold frames. The weather on modeling right now is going to potentially give folks whiplash in terms of temps. Just nine days ago the wind chill was in the low single digits IMBY and snow on the ground.

12z GFS has two opportunities. One is around the 27th, and then the one you mentioned. And yes, the GFS has had a real knack for sniffing out storms at range. @Icy Hot, yep, enjoying the weather and watching A LOT of basketball.

Yesterday felt like a heat wave. There was still snow on the north facing side of my house, but the temps felt awesome. Hard to believe just three days ago that daytime wind chills were 12F.

Man, it has been a great weekend!!!!! No lead felt safe today, but they pulled it off. SEC Champs!!!! I was a youngster last time they did this!

Long way out there, but the 18z GFS and 12z EPS have another window near the end of the month - maybe around March 27th. I know a lot of us, me included, are not used to March's of recent memory being part of winter....but the bowling ball lows sliding through the SE only need a cold shot to really get cranking.

I think this is still relevant to the storm thread. Temps and wind chills tonight are going to be maybe the coldest of the season or close to it. From MRX Discussion: Will likely see some snow showers lingering into the evening hours over the TN mountains and also northeast TN and southwest VA. Still have winter headlines out for these areas, but all of them expire at 00z. This seems reasonable for northern areas but may be perhaps a couple of hours too long in the south. At this point in the event though, this is splitting hairs though as no further significant snow accumulations are expected in any of these areas. Otherwise, temperatures will be the big story for the remainder of the short term. Trended overnight lows towards a mix of the GFS and Canadian with a little NBM 25th percentile mixed in. Given the snow pack across the valley, and the expected light winds late tonight as high pressure builds into the region, it seems more than plausible that some single digit lows will be seen tonight. One factor that could wind up making this a mistake is that winds will remain elevated through the evening and perhaps first part of the overnight hours. But guidance indicates high pressure will build in from the southwest after midnight tonight which will force winds to become light in the valley and should allow temperatures to plummet. Related to overnight lows, wind chill values will be very low at higher elevations beginning this afteroon and lasting through the overnight hours. A few locations above 3,000 ft have already seen wind chills near zero this afternoon, but beginning around 22z we should see these locations begin to see wind chills dipping to between -5 and -15 degrees. Will go ahead with a wind chill advisory to account for this. Low level flow turns around out of the south tomorrow, resulting in highs climbing into the mid 40s to low 50s and alleviating any remaining hazardous road conditions and melting any snow left.

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Yeah, I kind of thought its as cool to see the western TN snow streak. Some modeling just nailed that. Honestly, that amazes me that computer modeling can do that.

Some cool satellite photos. Snow banding/squalls are evident over NE TN, W NC, and SW VA.

Well, when we hit 63 on Monday...it is going to continue its journey along the water cycle after being in suspended animation today while on the ground. Springs snows rarely last long due to the sun's angle. Tonight, it should help lows get Into the low teens and/or single digits depending on location. Easily the most wintery day of the year IMBY...and it is March. Wind is howling, ice cycles are hanging from the house, snow squalls moving through, sun shining, and wind chills in the low teens.

This is easily our best storm of the season in west Kingsport. Probably between 4.5-5" of snow here at the house and a solid 5" of snow on the groomed surfaces of the golf course. Sledding is good today. I have almost enjoyed these snow bands as much as the storm itself. Going to be COLD tonight!!!

I was watching for downslope traits, and didn't see them. I was up late when it changed over, and that dry pocket came through. There was seemingly a small bit of rotation to it. Kind of cool and was kind of not! LOL. It almost looked like that slipped over the apps into NE TN and then headed for SW VA...and it keep moving which is why it didn't really seem like a downslope deal. Very dynamic storm to pull something like that off! Glad you got some snow over that way.

Grassy areas are crazy deep. The golf course might have 6" in the short rough. There is more in the neighborhood if you get away from trees.

I have 4" of snow on the back patio table and 5" in the garden. I wasn't over 3-3.5" in any of those places until that band roared through. It dropped a solid, additional 1-1.5" of snow here.

Yeah, I think my totals are pushing 3.5-4" now. I will go get a measurement in a sec. Nice way to close out this storm.

This is old school stuff. Get a nice coastal and then it snows for hours after as the moisture is just wrung out of the atmosphere.

Man, it is just puking snow under this band. With the wind blowing, visibility is down to about 1/8" of a mile or less.

Yeah, that band is stout. Just pouring snow. Probably will pick-up another 0.5" or more.

We managed to to get to 3 to 3.5". We would have gotten more had that little area of dry circulation not rotated through last night. It wasn't downslope I don't think. It was location to the track and that little mesoscale circulation of dry air which rotated through. Overall, I thought models did really well with the exception being last minute trends.