Uncle Nasty Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Not sure of the temps for you folks from Chattanooga to the NE but we finally went over freezing at my house. Something I didn't expect just happened. When we hit 34* we went from light rain to a heavy sleet for about 10 minutes. Seems like the cold and warm are having a battle up above. Edit to add my weather station just dropped to 33^ again. Just something to look for your way if the cold keeps winning out for awhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stovepipe Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Yeah that was a pretty big bust on QPF by the models. GFS came around and was the most correct yesterday. RAP and HRRR didn't start coming around until 6 or 7 hours out. I think we all knew the models would struggle with temps with the extreme cold in place but I'm surprised they dried out the precip like they did so close to the event. The intense sleet last night here was cool to see. I slept through some of the snow this morning. I'm very happy to hear NE TN/SW VA got the big snow! Great pics, keep em coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Wow some nice numbers this way. Very impressive for sure. Nice pics guys and enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tnweathernut Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Pretty insane for gc, i'll be pushing 93' numbers soon, if we get a couple more inches I'll be in that 15-17 inch range Crazy and awesome man! Congrats! Surprised you still have power Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnweathernut Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Unbelievably, just 15 miles away, I got an inch that has already melted and temps in the mid 40s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bango Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 I took measurements of 14-16 inches, some places where the snow had not melted at all were higher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bango Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Unbelievably, just 15 miles away, I got an inch that has already melted and temps in the mid 40s. What a bummer about JC, they've been unfortunate the last two systems...it's odd that scott county and Kingsport did so well with both, but models kept hitting at cold areas hugging lee, scott, wise, hancock, and areas in that cluster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndTenn Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 image.jpg image.jpg Great photos from the old hometown! Compared with surrounding areas, Kingsport so often gets the shaft when it comes to snow. Nice to see the tables turned for once! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnweathernut Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Great photos from the old hometown! Compared with surrounding areas, Kingsport so often gets the shaft when it comes to snow. Nice to see the tables turned for once! Definitely happy for you guys to our north and west today! Enjoy!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 It's a disaster area here. Two local boat docks have collapsed and portions of them are sinking. Powerlines are sagging to the ground in spots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Shell Station in Lake err Rocky Top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bango Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 What a front end thump, has to be the biggest busted wx forecast i'll prolly ever see again as technology continues to improve. I was forecasted for .5-1 inch of snow with a little ice. Got about 9 inches of snow on top of the prior 6-8...I hate it for the local mets, I think a lot of people are angry this morning at getting epic numbers when little was forecasted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bango Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Reports are emerging out of SWVA of places that have 20-30 inch amounts (some of it prior snow) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bango Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Are those docks breaking away? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 A different dock than the one above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Are those docks breaking away? The weight of the snow/ice has collapsed it and it's sank. There are multiple local docks experiencing this apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 What a front end thump, has to be the biggest busted wx forecast i'll prolly ever see again as technology continues to improve. I was forecasted for .5-1 inch of snow with a little ice. Got about 9 inches of snow on top of the prior 6-8...I hate it for the local mets, I think a lot of people are angry this morning at getting epic numbers when little was forecasted This was definitely an odd model bust. It showed Kentucky getting the heaviest snow on most of them and they got almost none, even northern Kentucky was zr. Some of the short range models had reduced qpf to nearly nothing until tonight and tomorrow, well after the warming. This one may be the oddest storm I can recall with the extreme snow/sleet/frozen event here with Kentucky getting less than areas to it's South. Plus a major winter storm here from at Lakes Cutter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bango Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 I can't blame the mets much, this was not a temperature thing as much as it was a QPF error. You can't forecast 1 foot totals off model input of .10-.35 ranges. Had the moisture been showing up on prior model runs and mets were changing things based off temps (underestimating artic air locked in) then it would have been different...tough deal. But I felt like totals should have been upped dramatically when moisture was pushing further west and they could have done a better job of extrapolating what was happening in knoxvile around 9-10 pm last night to the areas due northwest...Stove was beating the drum all last night by looking at the slow progression of the changover in Memphis. You could really start to tell this was going to be big about 8 pm when ground temps were frozen tundra and everything was going to stick hard core Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bango Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 John are you actually done? Radar is showing a mix precip still in your area? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 John are you actually done? Radar is showing a mix precip still in your area? It's 34 with rain/sleet falling. Now flooding is also getting bad in spots in town due to all the drainage vents having 10 foot high piles of snow on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carvers Gap Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Stove, this the golf course. Fast. It is in a bowl. I am way up on the other side from those kids taking this pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyhound Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 It's a disaster area here. Two local boat docks have collapsed and portions of them are sinking. Powerlines are sagging to the ground in spots.What docks are they? I assume it's Norris? Spend a lot if time all over that lake during the summer.Edit: Never mind. Just saw this: http://www.wbir.com/story/news/local/2015/02/21/norris-lake-boat-docks-collapse-after-winter-storm/23798393/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bango Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Finding myself really worried about where this snow will go once the rain sets in...I really hope this doesn't turn into a catastrophic flood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carvers Gap Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Height of the storm today... From the other day when the clipper roared through. Blowing and drifting snow along my front property line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Another collapsed dock report from Norris Lake. Mountain Lake, Springs and Twin Cove have all at least partially collapsed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Super impressive snow reports from Lee County and Wise Va areas too. Lee Co got 19 inches, Wise got 15 so far, it's still snowing there per obs. I wish it had stayed snow here, the ice has been so destructive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jed33 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 I don't know how it managed to stay snow in the narrow corridor from Knoxville basically up I81 and yet turned to sleet and ZR in the plateau. I get the smokies and the foothills, but how it managed here, I just don't know. I would like to know though, if anyone can explain. At any rate, I finished around 12:00 with about 4.25in of snow. We really haven't had much other precip at all since it quit. Just a small sleet shower or ZR, and now, I guess rain, as I'm at 33 now. Basically, it snowed the hardest it could and quit precip during the day for is to enjoy it till just a few mins ago when we came in. I see it is now raining. It could all melt now, but we had a blast sledding, tubing, building snowmen, snowball fights, and playing. Best snow of the year here for sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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