Carvers Gap Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 These bands of snow that are moving through are a blast. I noticed it getting dark. Wind kicked up to around 20mph. We got about a ten minute burst of heavy snow and sleet that turned the ground white. I mean it was howling. Then the sky turns blue. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlunderStorm Posted December 5, 2018 Author Share Posted December 5, 2018 Absolutely beautiful outside right now. A snow squall is passing over with bursts of 2-3 in. an hour rates. Some of the snow is coming down over an inch in diameter. I finally got my share haha. Since it's arrival the temperature has dropped a whole 5 degrees from 32 to 27! UPDATE 1: Temperatures have risen back to 29 but it is still snowing at a light to moderate rate. Soon, I will take a measurement once this period of snow ends. UPDATE 2: Another smaller snow squall is currently (1:14 ) passing over with more heavy rates. UPDATE 3: A good 1.3 inches of snow IMBY fell in the last hour and a half. A few snow showers may follow after but this looks to be the end of the snow squalls. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 Another from today. Snow on the small spruce tree behind my house. I'm hoping it lasts but there's an aphid in the area that is killing many of them. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMZ8990 Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 6 hours ago, BlunderStorm said: Absolutely beautiful outside right now. A snow squall is passing over with bursts of 2-3 in. an hour rates. Some of the snow is coming down over an inch in diameter. I finally got my share haha. Since it's arrival the temperature has dropped a whole 5 degrees from 32 to 27! UPDATE 1: Temperatures have risen back to 29 but it is still snowing at a light to moderate rate. Soon, I will take a measurement once this period of snow ends. UPDATE 2: Another smaller snow squall is currently (1:14 ) passing over with more heavy rates. UPDATE 3: A good 1.3 inches of snow IMBY fell in the last hour and a half. A few snow showers may follow after but this looks to be the end of the snow squalls. That’s awesome man, sounds like a fun day!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlunderStorm Posted December 5, 2018 Author Share Posted December 5, 2018 3 hours ago, AMZ8990 said: That’s awesome man, sounds like a fun day!! Thanks, looks like I can call today's snow accumulation early. In total 1.5 inches fell with some flurries/light snowfall both before and after the snow squalls. This brings the seasonal total just under 3 inches. Note: I'll post some images later when I get the time to. At some point I'll start an album and just send a link to it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMZ8990 Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 11 minutes ago, BlunderStorm said: Thanks, looks like I can call today's snow accumulation early. In total 1.5 inches fell with some flurries/light snowfall both before and after the snow squalls. This brings the seasonal total just under 3 inches. 3 inches isn’t to shabby seeing as it’s only early December. You might triple that Total by this time next week!!! Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlunderStorm Posted December 7, 2018 Author Share Posted December 7, 2018 A few flurries out of no where passing by. That marks Thursday as a trace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Ridge Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Looks like a few flurries are moving through John’s neck of the woods as well. [mention=499]john1122[/mention] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 We had a decent snow shower a little bit ago. There's a 20 percent chance of them overnight. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMZ8990 Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 36 and a rain in Memphis at the moment. Looks like the snow sleet line is just north of Jackson at this point in the day. Little Rock seems to be in a good position to see some snow today, the cold air has really filtered into the mid state of Arkansas of the past 12 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carvers Gap Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 On 12/1/2018 at 5:38 PM, Holston_River_Rambler said: Alright @Carvers Gap thunder in Knoxville and its heading up that way. Here we go! Amazing to go from as cold as it has been to a nice thunderstorm! I am continually amazed by this rule..."If it thunders in the mountains it will snow within _______." Some say that blank is filled with seven, ten, or fourteen days. It just depends on how that rule gets passed-down within families. I have always used ten days. Some might explain it away by saying that it is going to snow anyway during winter every so often, so it has a decent chance of verifying. In other words, some might say you could pick a random day during winter, and it will snow within ten days. Still, I have jogged in the snow twice this week. I have also seen winters where we go several weeks with no snow whatsoever. Like any rule, there are exceptions. But it is just uncanny how many times it works! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrgjeff Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 If any science is behind it, I submit the amplified weather pattern in general. Also could get the warm sector storms followed by cold sector snow. If separated by a week. probably two separate troughs in an amped up pattern. Makes some sense. Plains versions is tornadoes and snow, lol! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carvers Gap Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Agree there is likely some science behind it.....We did the tornadoes and snow version as well. The great superstorm of 1993 was preceded by a tornado outbreak on February 22nd. One hit downtown Lenoir City. Then on March 12th(18 days later...spirit of the rule and not to the letter), nearly two feet of snow fell. Amplified patterns are wild. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holston_River_Rambler Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 The question is, does thundersnow count? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carvers Gap Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 37 minutes ago, Holston_River_Rambler said: The question is, does thundersnow count? Instantaneous verification. Guessing the correlational coefficient for that scenario is pretty good. LOL. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holston_River_Rambler Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 That wins the weatherwebs for the day! If we get thundersnow this year, this is becoming a signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwagner88 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Been a while since I’ve checked in over here. It’s been wet. Extremely wet. To the point that I am very concerned about the development of freezing fog overnight. I am now over 60” of rain IMBY for the year. Had close to 4” of wasted 38 degree qpf from the big system this weekend and today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Ridge Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Incredibly thick fog has developed within the last hour. Temp is hovering around freezing. This may spell trouble in the morning. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Math/Met Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 1 hour ago, Blue Ridge said: Incredibly thick fog has developed within the last hour. Temp is hovering around freezing. This may spell trouble in the morning. Freezing fog has formed a thin layer of ice on cars. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holston_River_Rambler Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 https://imgur.com/a/VYVrCG3 This AMs fog on GOES 16. It is COLD in areas that got snow in NE TN and SW VA. Some interesting observations on the NT microphysics setting: 1. Looks almost like the fog is blowing off South Holston lake. I've seen that happen on other area lakes when it is really cold and get lake effect snow. Dendrite growth zone has to be super low for it though. 2. At a couple of points there are some fun swirls that come of the SW edge just south of Knoxville 3. At around Knoxville, Muscle Shoals, and Jackson, TN among others there are little dots that pulse that the satellite picks up on. Normally I'd think it was the city, but then where are they for Nashville/ Chattanooga/ Memphis? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Ridge Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Freezing fog has formed a thin layer of ice on cars.Yes, not even my car under our carport was spared. Fortunately, that’s the only issue I encountered on my commute. (My office complex’s parking lot is a different story.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnweathernut Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Pretty amazing what deep snow pack can do......... We have a dying air mass and areas with deep snow pack seemed to manage to get down into the low single digits to the mid teens in northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia. I am always amazed what snow on the ground can do to temps! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Ridge Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Pretty amazing what deep snow pack can do......... We have a dying air mass and areas with deep snow pack seemed to manage to get down into the low single digits to the mid teens in northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia. I am always amazed what snow on the ground can do to temps!Incredible. Looks like KTRI bottomed out at 14°, while Abingdon dipped to 9°. Meanwhile, a PWS in Bristol, VA, recorded a low of 4.3°, while a PWS in Meadowview, VA recorded a low of 2.6°. Obvious cautions about relying on PWS data apply. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 Frozen fog this morning. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 Just had my whole house shake for about 15 seconds about 15 minutes ago, apparently another earthquake just hit the area. If so, it's the 3rd this week, but first one I've felt. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxjagman Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 2 hours ago, John1122 said: Just had my whole house shake for about 15 seconds about 15 minutes ago, apparently another earthquake just hit the area. If so, it's the 3rd this week, but first one I've felt. Heard it was a 4.4,pretty strong for our area 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Carvers Gap Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 Looks like there was also an aftershock. I know we have them here, but that is crazy. I didn't feel a thing up this way. Glad you all reported it, or I wouldn't have known. I bet it did indeed rattle some folks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxjagman Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/tennessee.html https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/se60247871/executive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kentucky Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 checked the cams from overnight, nothing from the earthquake. Here's some hoar frost pics from yesterday. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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