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

[Reb]

TDOT cams all around Knox have icicles hanging in view

[ShawnEastTN]

37 minutes ago, Tucker1027 said:

Nope, it hasn’t yet which has me a little concerned for when it does


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Just looked at surface reports and looks like CAD maybe developing now as there is freezing rain reports in NE Georgia near Clayton.  Should creep west along the bottom of the mountains.  Will be interesting to see if it can get back west all the way to NW GA and start bleeding into southern valley.

[Tucker1027]

3 minutes ago, ShawnEastTN said:

Just looked at surface reports and looks like CAD maybe developing now as there is freezing rain reports in NE Georgia near Clayton.  Should creep west along the bottom of the mountains.  Will be interesting to see if it can get back west to NW GA and start bleeding into southern valley.

Wind is coming from the ESE here in Chattanooga which could be the CAD?

[Knoxtron]

Yeah winds are consistently from the south east. Currently treacherous to walk lol 26°

 

[TellicoWx]

PWS station in Coker Creek recorded wind shift to SE 20mph about 10 mins ago. Temp went from 27 to 36 in about 5 mins.

[Carvers Gap]

ZR w/ glaze on pretty much everything.

[John1122]

This is insidious freezing rain. It's light, and with temps in the mid 20s, there no run off. 

[John1122]

The 2 inches of snow and sleet are now about 3/4ths inch of ice. My dogs are around 35 pounds and they didn't sink in the snow, they walked on top of the crust without breaking through. 

[Windspeed]

ZR w/ glaze on pretty much everything.

So it begins. I am hoping that downsloping off Holston Mountain will aid in some warming south of Bristol just enough to subdue the freezing rain at my house. But I am sitting at 28° right now. It's going to be a close call for a while. I think we can handle ~.25 without mass outages, but I'd not dare chance much more.

[dwagner88]

I think the lower elevations down here are going to be fine. There really isn't as much accretion as I expected at 29 degrees. The mountains may be in worse shape though.

[Holston_River_Rambler]

Beer can was rescued from the ice:

 

Current ice accretion on the teal pagoda:

[TellicoWx]

Warm air is definitely working down the mountain from the south (Coker Creek) side. Multiple stations at 1500' are now shifting winds and temps quickly rising

[zippity]

5 hours ago, Reb said:

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

Might be burning off fuel for a gear up landing. Hope it lands safely.

[TellicoWx]

This station is about where I turned around out..temp was 27 then

[TellicoWx]

25 minutes ago, dwagner88 said:

I think the lower elevations down here are going to be fine. There really isn't as much accretion as I expected at 29 degrees. The mountains may be in worse shape though.

Agree, couple more degrees and would have been alot worse here so far. Some of the sheltered spots may not be as lucky so far.

[Scottie16]

Precip is drying up from west to east at the state line. Looks like the low will go up then apps or further east.


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[IndTenn]

30 here in Kingsport.  The rain has slacked off in the past few minutes to just a light drizzle.  When it was raining harder, I could hear water flowing through the gutters, and just checked and see no icicles forming.  Fingers crossed.