Winter 2018-2019 Observations

[Holston_River_Rambler]

8 minutes ago, Knoxtron said:

Nice little burst of sleet in West Knoxville/Hardin Valley area. Started accumulating on cars and grass, but seems to be switching to mostly rain now. Raw weather none the less!

Definitely over performed in East Knoxville too. Actually still getting a flake or two mixed in. 

[Holston_River_Rambler]

Really interested to see if the band does a little more further north.

[BlunderStorm]

That's encouraging news to read up here. Precip is closing in and will arrive in ~30 minutes. Whether it will be snow, sleet, or rain at the onset is yet to be seen. I measured a temperature of 30 when I left home at eight.

[Holston_River_Rambler]

Actually I was apparently talking about a preliminary band, before all the bright echoes around Knoxville now moved over my house. Now that the real band is here, sleet/ wet snow mix is really coming down! 

[Holston_River_Rambler]

Alright @BlunderStorm must be pretty good toward the VA border. Campbell County schools have closed early.

[John1122]

Heavy wet snow here after a burst of sleet. Silver Dollar sized flakes at times, around 1/2 inch accumulation. Mixing with rain at times. 33 degrees. 

[PowellVolz]

In north Knox Co we keep switching from snow to rain and back again. Snow flakes are huge.


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[John1122]

Had another burst of heavy snow, looks like it's about to pass on by after this. MRX had initially forecast this might happen but had backed off, I think one run or two I saw of the RGEM showed it, the NAM if I recall showed it in SWVA and extreme NETN. I'd guess an inch of snow fell, but due to mixing issues I seemed to have peaked at 1/2 inch or so of ground coverage. TDOT had to deal with issues on I-75 and schools dismissed.  Probably could have ridden it out on schools, as I don't expect any issues at all this afternoon.

[Holston_River_Rambler]

I can see some of those big flakes here near downtown Knoxville, but mostly melted at my locations. 

[PowellVolz]

I can see some of those big flakes here near downtown Knoxville, but mostly melted at my locations. 

I’d say around 1500’ it’s all snow around Knoxville


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[Holston_River_Rambler]

I'm amazed I got what I did. I was thinking 5 minutes of sleet and wet snow, then all rain. Pretty much wintery mix the whole time. Radar scope says all now for Kingsport, if it plays out, I could see a quick inch as heavy as rates were. 

[BlunderStorm]

Hey, good news the snow panned out. Snow flakes the size of small cotton balls are falling without any mix. Accumulation is starting to occur.

[bearman]

1 minute ago, BlunderStorm said:

Hey, good news the snow panned out. Snow flakes the size of small cotton balls are falling without any mix. Accumulation is starting to occur.

Send pics.

[Blue Ridge]

Good moderate burst of snow at the office currently. Huge flakes. 

[BlunderStorm]

Image doesn't do it justice this was during a lull. Currently heavy snow falling. School is teetering on an early dismissal. 

[Math/Met]

Big flakes in Greeneville right now.

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[1234snow]

I think the short range models may of been a little too warm the past few days with the leading edge. Just now running into snow heading into Abingdon.

Something I’ve been eyeing the past few days. Glad it planned out.

[Math/Met]

These are the biggest flakes I’ve seen in a few years.

[Blue Ridge]

50+ DBZ over Bulls Gap right now. The back edge looks wild. 

 

6 minutes ago, Math/Met said:

These are the biggest flakes I’ve seen in a few years.

Agreed. A slushy 1/2" has accumulated here. 

[Jed33]

I’ve been in Rutledge most of the day. On the way over here from a Morristown, snow started mixing in around Bean Station at about 10:30. Then it switched to heavy snow, flakes as big as any I’ve ever seen anywhere! Snowed till about 12:30. Totally didn’t expect that. It probably was between 1/4-1/2in on the grass, decks, and cars at the height of it. Now it’s melting off. Wife said it was snowing heavily in Morristown too. I guess the precip rate was heavy enough to drag down enough cold air to switch it over. Man, what I wouldn’t have given for the temp to have been just a few degrees colder!

[BlunderStorm]

School dismissed probably a quarter to half inch on the ground at ~1850ft in downtown Honaker. 

[Icy Hot]

Temp dropped 6 degrees in last hour in Colonial Heights.

[BlunderStorm]

3/4ths of an inch on the ground on my measuring tile and roughly an inch or a little more on the grass at home. Since I'm using my low res chromebook camera to take shots taking measurement pics is nearly impossible without laying it in the snow.

[John1122]

This is from around the time they decided to call off school this morning.

[1234snow]

Picked up around an inch at the house. Very pleasant surprise today. Gets me pumped for the back half of winter.

[Icy Hot]

42 minutes ago, Icy Hot said:

Temp dropped 6 degrees in last hour in Colonial Heights.

As soon as the rates slowed down temperature went back up 2° it's now a light drizzle.

[BillT]

which model had this snow today and how long ago did they start showing it please? according to the other place this stuff today is not happening because no model showed it.

[BlunderStorm]

18 minutes ago, BillT said:

which model had this snow today and how long ago did they start showing it please? according to the other place this stuff today is not happening because no model showed it.

The RGEM pretty much saw it 40+ hours out and I believe the NAM 12km sort of sniffed it out around 30 hours in advance. The NAM 3km on the other hand never really did grasp it. I believe as one of the posters here described it, the 3km sometimes seems to try too hard on the terrain features and elevation. With all that considered, the actual event overperformed all models at least for me.

[BlunderStorm]

27 minutes ago, Icy Hot said:

As soon as the rates slowed down temperature went back up 2° it's now a light drizzle.

The exact same thing occurred here in the last 5 minutes. The current temp is now 36. My final total is exactly 1 inch barring any redevelopment ahead of SWVA. About 1.5" is on the grass.

[Daniel Boone]

Picked up 2.5 " heavy, wet snow here in central Lee County, Va..