Jan 24 - 26 2026 Ice, sleet, and for a lucky few..... snow storm Observations Thread

[Greyhound]

Anyone in Nashville have accumulations to report? Looks like it’s been snowing nicely there for a while. 

I have an aunt lives a few miles from “Shopryland” - says she has about 1.5” snow


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[John1122]

Not sure why, things were picking up nicely here then a dry crack started and everything just collapsed around me. Gonna have to wait for that to fill back in while the warm nose creeps north.

[Knoxtron]

19 minutes ago, Holston_River_Rambler said:

 

 

 

So beautiful! 

 

Looks like were in a dry slot near chatt, still having some fine sleet/freezing rain under 0 returns. Temps slowly climbing to 27 in the last two hours, switching from out of the north to predominantly out of the east in the same time-frame

 

Noticing the southern plateau is slightly warmer now as compared to valley/mid tn lower elevations. 

[Mrwolf1972]

This storm looks nothing like the models we have been watching or am I not seeing something 

[Stovepipe]

All snow currently in Halls, light to moderate with dimes.  No mixing that I can tell yet.  Temp was up to 32 earlier, down to 29 currently.

[Vol4Life]

1 minute ago, Mrwolf1972 said:

This storm looks nothing like the models we have been watching or am I not seeing something 

I agree..there’s not the continuity of precip that we saw on the models.  That gap in precip back in Arkansas is massive.

[WishingForWarmWeather]

My children’s school has just canceled school Monday and Tuesday. 

[bearman]

12 minutes ago, Mrwolf1972 said:

This storm looks nothing like the models we have been watching or am I not seeing something 

I think with the early morning snow in Chattanooga and south we all got the Ideal that things were going to be early, and I guess that was true, but the main moisture was supposed to hold off until around 4 to 5pm.  I think that is what is going to happen because even when I get what looks like good returns over me, it is just light snow. Of course as soon as I say that II am having my biggest dimes and Quarters right now. I even  got a little white ground with that last round.

[Chimoss]

Im a lurker for about 2 years now, just wanted to pop in any said hi! Also, light snow in West Knoxville now, around the Bluegrass community. Some bigger flakes, mostly small. 

[Runman292]

Light to moderate snow in Oliver Springs. I'm staying at a friend's house for a few days. The road at my house in Oak Ridge is already iced over.

[Silas Lang]

4 minutes ago, bearman said:

I think with the early morning snow in Chattanooga and south we all got the Ideal that things were going to be early, and I guess that was true, but the main moisture was supposed to hold off until around 4 to 5pm.  I think that is what is going to happen because even when I get what looks like good returns over me, it is just light snow. Of course as soon as I say that II am having my biggest dimes and Quarters right now.

Yeah, was super dry air this AM in Knox. Had some flurries this morning with humidity around 40% and a dewpoint in the low teens. 

Gor up to 33.4 a couple of hours ago. Doen to 30.4 now with light snow. Starting to coat everything now. Humidity only now at 70% with a dewpoint of 21. 

[Jed33]

Light snow here too with some bigger flakes here and there 

[WinterWonderland]

Snowing beautifully in Oak Ridge right now and sticking on surfaces. We're at 30 degrees.

[housemtnTN]

31 degrees here, 71% humidity, dewpoint 22. Light to moderate snowfall with a small amount of mix.

[BuCoVaWx]

Just now starting to throw some flurries out here. Too bad for all the ZR/rain tonight and tomorrow, makes me sad this time of year. Maybe in the next week or two we can cash in. Great pics everyone! 

[jaxjagman]

Still 20 here,mesoscale shows that changing over to IP around 3CST,then Rap and HRRR shows ZR around midnight

[housemtnTN]

2 minutes ago, BuCoVaWx said:

Just now starting to throw some flurries out here. Too bad for all the ZR/rain tonight and tomorrow, makes me sad this time of year. Maybe in the next week or two we can cash in. Great pics everyone! 

I can't imagine the totals if all that moisture was just snow.

[GBOVolz]

Gonna be interesting to see which high res mod is closest to what happens. This is the NAM 3K and the VF3, I picked those because they are the closest to my air temperature right now. I threw the HRRR out because it has me with rain and 33 degrees right now. I’m at 27.7 with mod snow. The main reason why I’m curious with these two high res mods is because both of them are pretty close with total precipitation, however the FV3 has me with a little over 3 inches of snow, no sleet and just a little freezing rain by Monday morning. The 3K gives me less than a half inch of snow, half of an inch of sleet and over 1 inch of total QPF of freezing rain. Here’s some screenshots.








3k NAM…











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[WishingForWarmWeather]

My children’s school canceled school Monday and Tuesday about an hour ago. 
 

Up a couple degrees from the 14 to 16°, 71% humidity, dew point 6°. Moderately heavy fine snow little flakes but you can see much darker returns headed headed this way. 
 

Son and husband hoping for snowball snow. 
 

exit to add: we are in Clarksville. 

[Jed33]

Coming down at a good clip now moderate I’d say with mostly dime sized flakes

[GBOVolz]

I know this has nothing to do with the weather, but maybe the weather is part of the problem… there’s reports of an airplane trying to land at TYS with unknown issues




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[Reb]

Just switched from light sleet pellets to light snow here 

[BuCoVaWx]

3 minutes ago, housemtnTN said:

I can't imagine the totals if all that moisture was just snow.

The forecast on Tuesday for today and tomorrow had around 14-22 of snow inches total. I should have screenshot it. Probably won't see that again for awhile lol. I knew that total was too good to be true. That's the game we play in this part of the world.

[Knoxtron]

FWIW, last 32 hours mosaic radar and station plot temp contours 

 

https://ibb.co/8gqjrBs1

 

 

[Shocker0]

Switched to mostly freezing rain here now NW of Crossville. About 1-1.5 inches of snow before the switch.

[jaxjagman]

11 minutes ago, housemtnTN said:

I can't imagine the totals if all that moisture was just snow.

Yeah,several days ago the models showed this winding down about now,not get going,.The slower solution allowed the LP to cut up because we lost the ULL to the NE and allowed HP to build in the east

[Reb]

1 minute ago, GBOVolz said:

I know this has nothing to do with the weather, but maybe the weather is part of the problem… there’s reports of an airplane trying to land at TYS with unknown issues




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Burning fuel before landing doesn’t sound weather related, and doesn’t sound good to me.

[Tucker1027]

is the High Pressure in the NE not a lot more south than models are showing?? 

[GBOVolz]

I know this has nothing to do with the weather, but maybe the weather is part of the problem… there’s reports of an airplane trying to land at TYS with unknown issues




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The airplane is from Fort Myers to Cincinnati and it is landing now


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[WintryMixmaster]

Moderate sleet coming down now. I'm pretty sure everyone north, east, west, and even southwest of me as reported at least a little snow, but I'm apparently in some kind of warm bubble. Down to 31.5 degrees