John1122 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Powerful thunderstorm swept through here, downed trees and quarter-sized hail along with extremely heavy rain. It's been another very rainy several days here and it looks to continue for at least a day or two before it heats back up. Hopefully some of the heat is blunted by the high moisture content in the soil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrgjeff Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 NWS is beating MOS, which is the goal. Yes @jaxjagman the models have been awful. Timing thunderstorms has been a whip too. CAMs have actually degraded toward midday. I believe they overweight existing clouds/precip. Then CAMs blow up midday MCSs that do not happen until late afternoon and evening. Silver lining is job security for human forecasters! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holston_River_Rambler Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Very loud storms this AM. Some of the loudest and longest thunder I've heard in a while. Like John I am hoping this soil moisture helps with the upcoming ridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holston_River_Rambler Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Flooding at Frozen Head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Heavy rain and as was pointed out above, very loud thunder early this morning. Looks like I might not get out of the 80s this weekend now and that the higher chances of rain will return by Monday. I'm at 4.4 inches of rain since Tuesday. I'm almost 10 inches above normal for the year to date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrgjeff Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Wednesday evening Chattanooga had a lightning show like something from the Plains or even Southwest. Lightning was vivid and frequent. A couple occasions continuous lightning was observed for a few minutes. Thunder was fairly loud but the light show took the trophy. Looks like the modest flow aloft will depart starting Friday. By the weekend a more typical summer pop-up storm regime should prevail, with no severe weather. It's been an interesting week of lightning and shelfies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stovepipe Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 I was camping at lake Allatoona in north GA from last Saturday though Thursday. The storms were all around us but we generally managed to get lucky with no hail or extreme wind at our location. The light show was friggin amazing. At one point a storm cloud was shooting bolts at the full moon. Epic stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Temps have really spiked today in the lower elevations of my area. Changing the sand in my friends pool filter at 1200 feet and it's 96 in the shade on his thermometer. It's about 5 feet off the ground on the north side of the building over grass, so it's probably pretty close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holston_River_Rambler Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 A NW flow seems to be hitting a E flow in the middle of the eastern valley today and creating a little boundary. Hopefully this can help pop a few storms and bring some of us a little cooling rain as the day wears on. Downsloping off the plateau and Smokies probably isn't helping this, but still will be interested to see if it produces anything: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carvers Gap Posted July 7, 2018 Author Share Posted July 7, 2018 Much needed rain this evening IMBY....always weird to watch a thunderstorm complex approach from the NE. Very rare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrgjeff Posted July 9, 2018 Share Posted July 9, 2018 Somehow my lawn got blanked the last 4 days, despite lots of thunderstorms Fri/Sat. Question is whether to water this week or hope it holds on until the next front. On the bright side a fairly pure tropical airmass has taken over and the sky is beautiful deep blue. Hopefully it lasts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holston_River_Rambler Posted July 9, 2018 Share Posted July 9, 2018 8 hours ago, nrgjeff said: On the bright side a fairly pure tropical airmass has taken over and the sky is beautiful deep blue. Hopefully it lasts It has been beautiful! Got some great pics from the higher elevations (some of the best visibility I've ever experienced in the summer) yesterday and Midnight Hole in the Smokies was running at just the right level for some fun. Camped at Big Creek and the air felt amazing for early July. The top pic is Midnight Hole and the bottom one is Roan Mt. looking toward Mt. Mitchell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holston_River_Rambler Posted July 9, 2018 Share Posted July 9, 2018 Looking north from Mt. Mitchell towards Roan Mt. (so it sort of counts as our area). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrgjeff Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Documented one of my better rainbows the last several years here in Chattanooga, East Brainerd, Thursday July 19. Evening rainbow lasted almost an hour from 7 to 8 Eastern Time. Double rainbow was present most of the time. Occasionally supernumerary arcs showed up, the bands immediately below and attached to the primary rainbow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 It's been like Hawaii here the past few weeks. There's been about 6 days with rainbows and multiple doubles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holston_River_Rambler Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Thunder almost all night here in Knoxville and some of the longest individual rumbles I can remember. Got a call from my parents in Kingsport and my father was actually blocked from driving home this AM by a tree that fell down in a gust of wind while he was out getting coffee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holston_River_Rambler Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Took a trip up to High Knob and Devil's Bathtub yesterday. Bathtub was very crowded so couldn't get a good picture of it. Great temperature and breeze on top of High Knob, some nice pictures, and a time lapse of some convection https://imgur.com/gallery/hMy7uHP Convection time lapse is looking NE Picture one is looking SE and Picture two is looking WSW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlunderStorm Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 4 hours ago, Holston_River_Rambler said: Took a trip up to High Knob and Devil's Bathtub yesterday. Bathtub was very crowded so couldn't get a good picture of it. Great temperature and breeze on top of High Knob, some nice pictures, and a time lapse of some convection https://imgur.com/gallery/hMy7uHP Convection time lapse is looking NE Picture one is looking SE and Picture two is looking WSW Ahh, I believe I was under the storm during or after your convection timelapse. The weather yesterday was all over the place. It seemed not an hour or two would go by without sunshine and rainfall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holston_River_Rambler Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Really nice shelf cloud in Knoxville this PM, but no camera. While waiting out the good old gulley warsher that followed saw there was a GOES 16 meso floater over the SE show the upper low and the storm dropping in. https://i.imgur.com/k8R04A9.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 This is one of those days where you can look at the radar and see the plateau and mountains. The rain just developed and is sitting over both areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holston_River_Rambler Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 T-storm rolling north. Looking SW from Bays Mt / Sullivan Gardens area in Kingsport yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carvers Gap Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 It has been a great day. Not too hot. We have worked in the garden most of the day. Miss those nighttime lows in MT though - mid 40s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlunderStorm Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 Not really a weather observation but an observation nonetheless... I was looking into the night sky off the balcony of our vacation condo at Topsail Beach tonight gazing at the Moon when I noticed one of the planets to the upper right of the Moon. It appeared bright in the sky and its identification as a planet was easy because it did not twinkle. One brief internet search later I identify the planet as Mars and to beat it all the red planet is making it closest approach since 2005! Fascinated my dad and I picked up our old pair of binoculars and brought them out to view it and to our surprise although it was a struggle to make out we could view the actual surface of Mars beyond it being a single point of orange-reddish light. Although we couldn't make out anything it had a somewhat definite surface. Apparently it won't be as close as it was tonight until 2287 according to this article. https://www.space.com/41329-mars-closest-to-earth-2018.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMZ8990 Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 Huge difference in temps this morning in west Tn. Fog is treacherous this am. Got a gully washer around midnight, nothing severe though other than some nice thunder heads! Almost need long sleeves this morning; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carvers Gap Posted August 1, 2018 Author Share Posted August 1, 2018 Mid 70s on August 1st for highs? I will take it. Sitting at 70F w rain around 4:00 PM. This does not feel like August...but again, I am not complaining at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrgjeff Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Yes Mars is at/near opposition which puts it relatively close to Earth. Sure enough one should be able to see dark spots thru a telescope, the different soil of large mountains. Southern ice cap should show up too. However both are very muted due to a planet wide dust storm on Mars. So, even on other planets the weather is 2018-ing,.. On 8/1/2018 at 12:54 AM, BlunderStorm said: Not really a weather observation but an observation nonetheless... I was looking into the night sky off the balcony of our vacation condo at Topsail Beach tonight gazing at the Moon when I noticed one of the planets to the upper right of the Moon. It appeared bright in the sky and its identification as a planet was easy because it did not twinkle. One brief internet search later I identify the planet as Mars and to beat it all the red planet is making it closest approach since 2005! Fascinated my dad and I picked up our old pair of binoculars and brought them out to view it and to our surprise although it was a struggle to make out we could view the actual surface of Mars beyond it being a single point of orange-reddish light. Although we couldn't make out anything it had a somewhat definite surface. Apparently it won't be as close as it was tonight until 2287 according to this article. https://www.space.com/41329-mars-closest-to-earth-2018.html Mars viewing should remain good for a few weeks. Even if not in perfect opposition it remains relatively close. We can hope the Mars dust storm abates. Oh yeah East Tennessee skies need to clear out too, lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwagner88 Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 15.3" of rain on my project site in Ducktown, TN in the last 30 days. I'm ready for some dry weather, but it doesn't look likely any time soon. Good POP's every day except Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holston_River_Rambler Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 Skies are finally clearing out here in Knox, flow is now from the NW, and the last of these shortwaves is cruising on through NC, and I bet we get at least two dry days from here south and west. I hope so anyway, hate mowing with the yard wet. Wow at the 15.3 inches! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holston_River_Rambler Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 Well there goes my call. Raining in Knoxville. Low level flow is NW, but upper is still SW. And the clouds don't look to be getting any smaller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holston_River_Rambler Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 Interesting convection pattern today on the lee side of High Knob and Roan Mountain. Maybe some sort of leeward confluence? https://imgur.com/a/04lPeDz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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