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  1. John1122
    Good grief. Last year it snowed on April 16th here, this year it's going later. Rain and snow showers likely, becoming all rain after 9am. Cloudy, with a high near 50. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
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    They got rid of Bob Yarborough too. I guess they are cost cutting with veterans. Glad Rick Barnes came back, surprised to see him pull the seeking job to get a raise card. I guess maybe he's not as financially stable as you'd expect a 64 year old that makes millions every year to be. He's now paid more than Tom Izzo, Roy Williams and some other NC level coaches. He better raise the bar in his post seasons, though he's not very likely to manage that at this age. Still, the big pay bump shows the next coach after he retires that we are serious about the basketball program.
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    Rick Barnes just doesn't get it done in the post season. That's a big part of why Texas moved on. At this point I hope he stabilizes the program for a few more years, then retires with good players in place and the job is attractive to a good coach. We've not had a smooth coaching transition without some kind of drama, ever. Ray Mears suddenly retired before anyone thought he would. Don DeVoe was fired. Wade Houston was fired with talent at an all time low. Kevin O'Neil fought with the AD the whole time he was here before suddenly quitting and taking another job. Jerry Green was fired after collapsing his final season. Buzz Peterson was fired for incompetence. Bruce was fired because of the NCAA deal. Cuonzo tanked it for 2.9 years, had a hot tourney and then quit. Turns out 3 years is his max everywhere. Tyndall was a disaster before he flamed out. It'd be nice to have a coach stay here, and then retire normally.
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    Had a brief snow shower around 6 this morning. Chilly but beautiful afternoon.
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    Same thing happened here around 6:30 this evening. Just rained ice for a bit.
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    Someday this will happen again. I honestly feel like a lot of these totals are underdone. Most all of CC was over 18 inches in the storm. Above 2500 was 36+ here. I believe Oak Ridge was at 18 too, much more than this map seems to imply.
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    Blindingly heavy rain and frequent lightning earlier as I drove home from Oak Ridge. Lots of urban flooding around Clinton.
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    Right at an inch of rain so far today. Probably another inch to 1.5 over the next day or so.
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    Norris is around 840 feet at the bottom of the dam and is 1080 across the top. Looks like they are using the bottom as the elevation on it at least. I just recognize it because of the two Rivers and I know once it becomes the clinch again below the dam it works it's way towards Oak Ridge and deep west Knox where it shows it going in.
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    Norris is the red line with the fork just to the left of Knoxville, that's the Powell and Clinch meeting at the fork. The other red line that you are showing as Fontana is very likely the New River/Emory/Obed that originates in Western Campbell and Scott and works south through canyons on the Plateau. I think it makes Watts Bar.
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    Transitioned to heavy sleet now with some nickel sized snow flakes mixed. 35 degrees.
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    Steady snow w some sleet falling here. Not likely to amount to much, but even seeing it fall is a rare treat.
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    Ended up with a dusting of snow this morning. Sad that this year is so poor it's one of the notable snow events of the year.
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    Getting light snow. Won't amount to anything but every flake this year has been tough to come by.
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    The 06z NAM has went bonkers on pivotal. I suspect there must be something wrong with the snow map there, at least for eastern areas.
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    There was too much panic and idiotic national media punditry after the first loss. Beating top 10-15 teams on their home floor is tough business. Heck, Duke keeps losing and doing it at home and gets a pass for losing. Tennessee should return to the top 4 in the AP poll but likely will not.
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    The 18z NAM was snowy. The 00z looks less so. It's going to be a bone chilling rain. It's 40 degrees here with a sharp north wind.
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    Probably not many of these fantasy maps left this season.
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    Norris finally fell enough to reopen schools here tomorrow, though some roads are still closed. It's 10 feet above full summer pool. Even with the spill ways wide open they could only let water out at about 1/2 the rate it was coming in until today, when it finally dropped below the output. It's only supposed to fall 6 inches over the next few days though. Any more rain will be too much rain.
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    Long range modeling is well into meteorological spring now. Things also get pretty quiet in here beyond winter, so probably not a huge need for monthly threads for a while. That said, we are coming out of a huge flooding/rain event and the GFS is showing a possible return to those conditions. The 16 day rain total, from 00z shows 10-12 inches falling over the period. So the extremely wet patten looks to continue. There may or may not be a brief cold shot in the early month period and there could be a winter threat in there, though obviously have to be heavily skeptical of it. After that, if we can believe the weeklies, warmth is back for the remainder of March.
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    Beginning to hear deep bass thunder to the SW of me, rain picking back up as well. This should hopefully be the final push.
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    They are rough but they are 100+ year old wagon roads, turned logging roads. They usually hold up no matter what the weather. Not as prone to mudslides.
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    Good thing I got what I needed earlier today. This is the road below my house between myself and town. There's other ways out but they require a good 4x4.
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    It's finally stopped raining here. Not sure how long the break will be. The mountain sides look so unique during these times. All the dry washes are full and it's like long silver streaks flashing down the brown hillsides.
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    As far as any record of mine or my grandfather's, yes.
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