Jan 30th-February 1st 2026 Arctic Blast/ULL Snow OBS Thread.

[Carvers Gap]

4 hours ago, Hillbilly said:

It looks like the webmaster at the NWS has some updates to make after yesterday and today!!!

  TRI-CITIES TN
                            DAILY NORMALS AND RECORDS
                                    FEBRUARY

      MAX   MIN   AVG   HDD   CDD    PCPN    REC HIGH     REC LOW     REC PCPN

 1     48    27    37    28     0    0.13    70  1988     4  1980    1.56 1985
 2     48    27    37    28     0    0.13    71  1989     0  1971    1.22 1974
 3     48    27    38    27     0    0.13    74  1989    -4  1965    1.28 2022
 4     48    27    38    27     0    0.13    71  2025    -9  1996    1.76 1943
 5     49    27    38    27     0    0.13    71  2008   -15  1996    1.43 2020

 6     49    28    38    27     0    0.13    73  2025     0  1996    2.60 2020
 7     49    28    38    27     0    0.13    76  2019     0  1978    0.97 2018
 8     49    28    38    26     0    0.13    73  2025     6  1984    0.62 2017
 9     49    28    39    26     0    0.13    72  2023     1  1995    2.48 1994
 10    50    28    39    26     0    0.14    73  1939     1  1979    1.66 1946

 11    50    28    39    26     0    0.13    76  1965     4  1955    1.42 2018
 12    50    29    39    26     0    0.14    74  2017    -1  1981    1.58 2023
 13    50    29    40    25     0    0.13    72  1961    -2  1955    1.62 1991
 14    51    29    40    25     0    0.14    75  1950     3  1971    1.09 1946
 15    51    29    40    25     0    0.14    76  1954     1  1960    1.26 1964

 16    51    29    40    25     0    0.14    72  2023     3  1958    1.44 1990
 17    51    30    40    24     0    0.15    72  2022    -3  1958    1.75 1944
 18    52    30    41    24     0    0.14    70  1948    -5  1958    1.31 1991
 19    52    30    41    24     0    0.15    78  1939    -5  1958    0.95 1999
 20    52    30    41    24     0    0.14    79  2018   -13  2015    1.06 1967

 21    53    31    42    24     0    0.14    82  2018     7  1958    0.96 1993
 22    53    31    42    23     0    0.14    80  2018     3  1963    1.85 2003
 23    53    31    42    23     0    0.14    80  2018     6  1978    1.83 2019
 24    53    31    42    23     0    0.13    77  2017     4  1967    1.53 2022
 25    54    31    42    22     0    0.14    74  2000    -1  1967    1.78 1961

 26    54    32    43    22     0    0.14    80  1977     4  1967    1.14 1958
 27    54    32    43    22     0    0.13    74  1996     2  1963    1.02 1987
 28    55    32    43    22     0    0.14    76  2021    12  1947    1.68 2011
 29    55    32    43    22     0    0.14    74  1976    13  1964    0.63 1952

 MO   50.9  29.2    40  699     0    3.81    82  2018   -15  1996    2.60 2020

Usually takes them 1-2 days to input those.  

[Carvers Gap]

The water main break in Fort Sanders is insane.  This cold weather is doing a number on infrastructure.  Go find some photos of it - WILD.

[Jed33]

18 minutes ago, Carvers Gap said:

The water main break in Fort Sanders is insane.  This cold weather is doing a number on infrastructure.  Go find some photos of it - WILD.

Powell posted it in banter.

[Jed33]

Clouds kept the lid on the temps today. It was a pretty big bust on temps all around from morning lows to afternoon highs. Looks like it made it to 28 here but back down to 26 now. 

[John1122]

10 hours ago, tnweathernut said:

With spotters and accumulations being posted from a lot of different places, it makes you wonder how snow maps in the year 2026 are off that much.  Sure, I get the guy who measures a drift to inflate, but that goes both ways.  It's just as much an error when you post "official" measurements off by a factor of 2x or 3x also.

My area is so often off, as is Daniel Boone's that an artificial snow hole shows up on the GFS and NAM over us for almost every storm. This is something like 8 years in a row here with about 50 percent or less than actual accumulation recorded. 

[Save the itchy algae!]

The water main break in Fort Sanders is insane.  This cold weather is doing a number on infrastructure.  Go find some photos of it - WILD.

My hospital in Oneida had the same thing happen this afternoon. I’m a pharmacist by trade but I was a freezing water shoveler today. Exhausted.

[GBOVolz]

@Carvers Gap had a good idea to post the Ft Sanders water pipe burst in this thread. He made good point about it being apart of the story with this event and it can be seen years later as people revisit this thread.













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[GBOVolz]

@Carvers Gap had a good idea to post the Ft Sanders water pipe burst in this thread. He made good point about it being apart of the story with this event and it can be seen years later as people revisit this thread.













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Also that 2nd pic is incredible.


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