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My buddy in Arkansas is in one of the very small white areas, so I'd say he's a big loser too lol.

Oh yeah, we've had a lot of snow in Crossville this year, I just meant that as of now the next couple of weeks look much colder than we've had in an extended period since 2018, but again the snow chances currently don't look high. Or if we do get snow, I'm afraid the pattern will flip immediately after and warm up again.

Yeah even just a small NW Flow event in these conditions and we could have snow-cover for several days. Hopefully something comes our way so we aren't wasting cold weather on just being cold.

I really hope we aren't about to have two weeks of frigid weather and 0 snowfall. Shades of January 2018, except this time there would be snow all around us.

The only pics I can really find from the February 3, 1998 snowstorm that hit McCreary County, KY where I lived at the time (also hit some areas of the Plateau). I believe we were supposed to get 2-4" after a changeover from heavy rain. It changed over much earlier than expected due to dynamic cooling. Went to bed with a dusting and woke up to over 2 feet of the heaviest wet snow I've ever seen. We couldn't open our front door so we had to climb out a window and walk to my Aunt's house 1/3 mile down the road because she had a generator and we didn't. The whole walk (which wasn't easy with that much snow) you could hear trees popping everywhere and falling, so that was an added element of danger. School was out for three weeks, power was out for two, and the National Guard was called in to help clean up because so many trees went down. I would love to find more pictures from it but it's a struggle unfortunately. It's probably the only snowfall I've been through that I didn't enjoy just because of how stressful it was on the family and not being able to go anywhere or have power for weeks. OHX did a writeup on the storm (https://www.weather.gov/ohx/19980203). Check out the snow totals and notice how elevation played a huge factor just like in this weekend's snow. Williamsburg, KY, just 15 miles east of McCreary County, recorded 4.8" while FEMA.gov notes this for McCreary: BACKGROUND During early February 1998, McCreary County, Kentucky experienced a record snowfall event receiving up to 30 inches of snow. The heavy snow caused damage to overhead utility lines and left large amounts of debris on the roadways. As a result, FEMA-1207-DR-KY was declared. The severity of the snow combined with the remote mountainous terrain effectively stranded the county's emergency personnel and snow removal equipment. In response to this, the County Judge requested that citizens assist with the removal of downed trees and snow to facilitate bringing the county emergency resources back on line. The citizens of McCreary County responded to the request and voluntarily assisted in the debris removal. ---------------- Jamestown, TN was also hit hard, receiving 21" of snow. OHX notes this: 1998- Snowstorm brings treacherous driving conditions, school closures, and widespread power outages to the Cumberland Plateau. Interstate 40 is closed at Monterey for 18 hours due to the heavy snow. Traffic is backed up for 13 miles. Winds gust to 50 mph at times during the snowstorm. Approximately 100,000 electric customers lose power. TEMA reports damages of about $5 million.

I wish we had to option to assign our own grades in school

I think the #NoHypeWeather hashtag actually should be #WeSeverlyDownplayPossibleMajorStormsBecauseTheyJustDontHappenHereOftenSoWeAreGoingToIgnoreAllDataShowingOtherwiseAndPrayWeAreRight

This forecast works for like 80% of winter events in East Tennessee anyway so it's hard to be wrong especially when you make such general predictions lol.

A few more pics from the snow taken today after the clipper did really well here and added a couple more inches. The next couple days will be sloppy with the melting and incoming rain but it's pretty for now:

The clipper seems to have overproduced here NW of Crossville, but those usually do here with the NW Flow. After cold rain most of the day yesterday it has turned into a decent snow event here and probably most of the forum area since some weren't supposed to get anything but flurries. (Picture sucks but its from security cam with frozen water on it and i dont feel like going out yet lol)

This has become a decent snow here in Crossville and finally stuck to the trees which made it prettier. Took a few pics with the camera again just before dark.

Had to go to Crossville and needless to say I40 isn't doing too hot

Longest pure snow we've had today. Hopefully no more switching with these rates

Hope so. With the pivot, I could see it actually snowing longer here than the south and east areas of us, where it switched over sooner. Maybe that was why it took longer here was that it pivoted quicker there and changed over. It's been coming down good the last 15min though.

Hardest it has snowed since early this morning here. Hopefully it does pivot or we only have a couple hours left.

Yeah this is the longest it has snowed here. Don't wanna jinx it and say it won't change back over again, but seems encouraging. Just not sure how much we have left moving in.

Yeah, thanks to the rain here, ours is an "ugly" snow compared to this lol. Nothing on the trees. Although in Fairfield Glade the trees look more like the above pic.

Almost all of this fell overnight. Somehow it has rained all day and most of the snow stayed on the ground even though it's been 33 degrees the whole time. Very slushy. We probably have had an inch of rain on top of the snow.

Ok lol. I was about to say if anything far Western Cumberland County looks bleaker than here did. Usually the areas that perform the best though.

My coworker on the Cumberland/White line at 1900ft has no snow on the ground. In every other system they do really well usually. The models did kinda show a warm nose hitting the entire White County almost all week and it must've been pretty accurate. And since I'm only 15 miles away it must've partially got to us as well. He said it just now started snowing there finally.

Western Campbell County or Cumberland County? Because I am at 1980ft in Western CC so basically 2000. I mean it's white here and is snowing but it was raining when a lot of places were getting snow the past 3-4 hours here.

The weird thing is that places north west east and south of me were all getting snow while it was raining here though lol. I can't explain it. It's snowing here now but the system doesn't look like it'll be sticking around here too much longer.

And then I saw a pic from Caryville Mountain where it was deeper than an outstretched hand. Just the weirdest system I can remember. It's snowing here again now, but no clue if it will decide to randomly go back to rain again like it has all day. We'll see.

Yeah it's really weird. And elevation definitely hasn't been the key factor either. Seems like the further south you are the better. Apparently the warm nose set right up over Western Cumberland County and random other spots and won't leave. I have no clue how the snow from this morning is still on the ground. It's pouring snow in town according to WATE cameras too and they are 1850ft and further south.

Incredibly it is still managing to rain here at 2000ft elevation. Overrated as bleep here.