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

[Holston_River_Rambler]

This morning I found a temp of 13 in Union City and a 61 in Townsend. Nearly a 50 degree spread across the state. 

[fountainguy97]

We dodged a major bullet across Unicoi county last night.  Much warmer than modeled. (The CAD downsloping fingers never really helped much).

 

Most of my glaze is gone. But I've had several wind gusts at 30mph this morning and my Davis is fairly well protected from this direction of wind. It's ripping. 

[WishingForWarmWeather]

20 minutes ago, Holston_River_Rambler said:

I like how they give you a pleasant and comforting image with their outage map:

 

Better have another fireball shot, it's the only responsible thing to do. 

Exactly. Doing the same. 
Also cooking bacon eggs biscuits and 2 packs of chicken and 2 packs of steaks so we’ve got something cooked already.

 Charcoal and propane grills ready just in case

[Knoxtron]

1 hour ago, Save the itchy algae! said:

You’re not in Knoxville I presume then?

No I'm at 2100ft MSL up on waldens ridge between Soddy-daisy and dunlap. 

[TellicoWx]

22 minutes ago, Holston_River_Rambler said:

This morning I found a temp of 13 in Union City and a 61 in Townsend. Nearly a 50 degree spread across the state. 

Yeah, not as drastic but Tellico was 51 when I left for work, Madisonville was 33 when I got there.

[Nash_LSU]

Checking in from next to the Nashville zoo. It's bad, yall. Real bad. 

[Weatheriscool]

Yea it's bad here in Cottontown trees snapping all over will be like a tornado went through when this is over power outages since 5 still freezing rain

[bearman]

Here in West Knoxville we still have 32 and rain.  All our Ice is still on the trees.  The Temperature has been very stubborn refusing to rise. I am sure we are about to go up anytime.

[bearman]

Wow, I am shocked at the Temps in NC. Charlotte has 18 degrees and freezing rain.  They are going to be devastated.  I guess this storm is going to be one of the worst storms the US has seen on scale.

[WishingForWarmWeather]

Power going down all around Clarksville. So far so good but I doubt it lasts much longer. Cooking what I can. 

[bearman]

18 minutes ago, bearman said:

Here in West Knoxville we still have 32 and rain.  All our Ice is still on the trees.  The Temperature has been very stubborn refusing to rise. I am sure we are about to go up anytime.

Right after I posted this quote It started raining hard and our temp spiked.  We are in sudden melt mode. 

[tnweathernut]

The biggest story will likely be the power losses and frigid cold that follows.  It’s unfortunate to sit here and know many in the power loss areas won’t be prepared.  With SO many outages across multiple states, it will stretch the massive resources that were called to be ready.  God bless these linemen….  

[tnweathernut]

Prayers and well-wishes to you guys out west.  Hang in there!!

[Jeff Co Vol]

I'm blessed to have been spared the worst of this storm in Jefferson County, at least so far.

My prayers are with all of you who are experiencing ice, power outages, falling trees and other issues.

[Matthew70]

Power is flickering here. 

[Wurbus]

Still 32 here in Knoxville. Temps are wild to our south. New Orlsans is sitting at 71 and Baton Rouge is 33 currently.

[Greyhound]

32 here in Fountain City/Knoxville. Heavy rain washing away the mixed bag of donuts we received yesterday. Yard is just pure slop.

The bigger story is the level of pouting from our two 90# dogs who don’t understand why they cant go outside and play. If they had thumbs, and could use a cell phone, I have no doubt we would have already been turned in to PETA/ASPCA


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[Holston_River_Rambler]

Power has returned to MBY! Hopefully other areas are as quick as possible. 

[bearman]

These temps in the valley are strange.  Heavy rain started here at the house, and we had the temp go up, and now it is back down to freezing. 

[1234snow]

Power went out here at 5:30. Not sure on how much ice accumulation but it was between .25 and .5 if i were a betting man.

[Knoxtron]

Winds finally shifted from out of the southeast to out of the north in the last hour. Temps shot up to 32.9, thankfully power is back.

 

 

[GregLCweather]

Heavy rain and 34 degrees in Lenoir City...trees are icy.  Power loss at 4:00 am until after 6:00 am.

[Holston_River_Rambler]

For those of you out west, the end looks like it is approaching the Mississippi:

 

 

[bearman]

We in Knoxville are sitting around freezing or just above and because of CAD Augusta Ga has snow and sleet.  This storm is really powerful.

[ShawnEastTN]

I went to bed really late last night, just getting up and I'm stunned that it's still freezing rain and 32. This is insane, but kind of the way I tend to think of ice storms, they are stubborn. I half expected it to be tropical this morning from some of the models.

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[bearman]

That Trowel that you are showing will be moving NE and by the time we get air cold enough to produce snow it should be well north-east of us, correct?  I have just about enough meteorological knowledge to make me dangerous.

[Holston_River_Rambler]

5 minutes ago, bearman said:

That Trowel that you are showing will be moving NE and by the time we get air cold enough to produce snow it should be well north-east of us, correct?  I have just about enough meteorological knowledge to make me dangerous.

Yeah it will be NW of probably even extreme NW TN. Just pointing it out since I already had made the image. 

[Holston_River_Rambler]

Found a 63 near Cosby now.

[ShawnEastTN]

A lot of new power outages in Rhea, Meigs and Cumberland Volunteer Energy counties this morning, I'm really concerned about wind picking up today. If we can't get above freezing.

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[AMZ8990]

Roads in west Tennessee are about as bad as I’ve ever seen them.  Snow, sleet and ice have heavily impacted the area.  Folks along the Mississippi/Tennessee border look to have the worst ice damage. Reports of power outages across the county in different rural areas.  Saw some info come out of Oxford Mississippi and it looks like they got the brunt of the ice storm, Holly springs area as well was hit pretty bad with ice. That 2nd wave came through last night and doubled sleet totals with some snow mixed in.  Probably have .20-.30 ice accumulation where I’m at north west of Bolivar with