Historic Tennessee Valley Cold, Snow, and Ice Events

[John1122]

There's still creek ice here, but the last of the snow melted off today. 

Snow on the ground for 24 days in a row here. Coldest January since 1988 East of the Mississippi. 

Definitely historic for it's length of cold. No record cold, no record shows unfortunately. 

[chris21]

On 1/16/2025 at 3:57 PM, John1122 said:

This winter may need archived in this thread for all the wrong reasons. It's hard to be better than we have at 500mb for much of December and January if you want snow. Great Atlantic, Arctic and Pacific mostly cooperative. But we've managed some light ice, and one minor to moderate snow event. Historically these looks would have seen much of the forum area well into double digits snow totals and likely saw my area, SE KY, NE TN and SWVa pushing 20-30 inches. 

I have 31 inches so far about two miles from the Tennessee border in Avery County, NC but I’m at 3800 feet and over 70 percent of that was upslope.

[PowellVolz]

On 1/31/2025 at 9:11 PM, chris21 said:

I have 31 inches so far about two miles from the Tennessee border in Avery County, NC but I’m at 3800 feet and over 70 percent of that was upslope.

We have a lot of historical snows in the ETn valley but the majority of our history is watching other people get snow. Lol

[PowellVolz]

Not sure if severe thunderstorms can go in this thread but thought I’d share this from MRX of the 2020 Easter tornadoes in SE Tennessee. 
 

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/55cc7aa49acc47839e8fa7010983ff83

[Carvers Gap]

I would recommend creating a separate, historical thread for severe weather.  This thread was created for historic winter weather events.  I have no issues at all w/ Powell's post, but a separate thread would be pretty cool, and is probably needed. 

[Holston_River_Rambler]

On 2/23/2025 at 1:57 PM, Carvers Gap said:

I would recommend creating a separate, historical thread for severe weather.  This thread was created for historic winter weather events.  I have no issues at all w/ Powell's post, but a separate thread would be pretty cool, and is probably needed. 

I made one years ago. Not sure where it went. 

[Mr Bob]

It was archived....I found it but it was last posted in early 2018 so I cannot recover it. Fire away with a new one though! 

[Holston_River_Rambler]

I made a new historic severe wx thread.