Jed33 Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 2 minutes ago, Bigbald said: It's like that blob of yellows and orange on radar scope is just sitting on morristown. Impressive! It’s been snowing quite heavily for awhile! I know we’ve got to be getting close to 3.5-4in by now but I’m not sure but what that might be sleet bc of the brightbanding. I hope not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fountainguy97 Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Honestly this couldn't be worse timing. Needed this overnight and it's a different ballgame. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RawCrabMeat Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 1 minute ago, fountainguy97 said: Honestly this couldn't be worse timing. Needed this overnight and it's a different ballgame. Yeah, we had no mixing issues overnight just very light rates. As soon as 9-10am rolled around and the radar looked nice it flipped to sleet, then rain. What’s crazy is I’m about 10 miles from the line, at most. I’m assuming similar issues in sevier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowellVolz Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 It's like that blob of yellows and orange on radar scope is just sitting on morristown. Impressive!Actually that might not be good for them. That could be, likely bright banding. When snow is in the process of melting on the way down it expands, gets bigger. When it gets bigger it shows up on radar as extremely heavy precipitation. I’ve been under those before and it could be light rain switching back and forth to fat mush flakes. . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnEastTN Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 One of the things I'm really impressed by this morning is how fast these tiny flakes are piling up. With the flakes so small it's deceiving when looking outside. It looks a lot lighter a snow than it really is. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnweathernut Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Flipped to big flakes, light to moderate snow in Erwin (city). There's a battle going on. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlunderStorm Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Temperatures have leveled off a tick above 27F. This corresponded with an increase in snowfall rates and shift in wind direction. Snow trucks rolling and scraping nonstop now! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McMinnWx Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 BIG flakes in Athens. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1234snow Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 2” now. Roads aren’t covered here yet. Any ground reports from Northern Mississippi? Radar looks intense there. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted January 15 Author Share Posted January 15 Crossing 4 inches as the air is filled with pixie dust. It actually warmed up to 23 degrees earlier but dropped back to 21 now. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbald Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 6 minutes ago, PowellVolz said: Actually that might not be good for them. That could be, likely bright banding. When snow is in the process of melting on the way down it expands, gets bigger. When it gets bigger it shows up on radar as extremely heavy precipitation. I’ve been under those before and it could be light rain switching back and forth to fat mush flakes. . Interesting, did not know that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fountainguy97 Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Beautiful snow. Roads turning slushy and white. Hate we are abt to cross 32 here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxjagman Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 4 minutes ago, John1122 said: Crossing 4 inches as the air is filled with pixie dust. It actually warmed up to 23 degrees earlier but dropped back to 21 now. Mountains play havoc with weather,its 12 here 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted January 15 Author Share Posted January 15 1 minute ago, jaxjagman said: Mountains play havoc with weather,its 12 here You guys have been impressively cold for this one. I think that's one of the reasons Mid-state areas over performed, amazing ratios. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearman Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 We are having our most intense rates we have had the whole storm. in West Knoxville. She is a ripping. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnweathernut Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 4 minutes ago, fountainguy97 said: Beautiful snow. Roads turning slushy and white. Hate we are abt to cross 32 here. Agree. It's a battle. Maybe the ARW can score a victory over all the other short range modeling. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlunderStorm Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 13 minutes ago, PowellVolz said: Actually that might not be good for them. That could be, likely bright banding. When snow is in the process of melting on the way down it expands, gets bigger. When it gets bigger it shows up on radar as extremely heavy precipitation. I’ve been under those before and it could be light rain switching back and forth to fat mush flakes. . A possible example of this can be seen right now in Florence, Alabama. Radar is showing heavy snow returns over there but the webcam shows a mix of precip types.https://florenceharbor.com/index.php/350-2/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silas Lang Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 1 minute ago, bearman said: We are having our most intense rates we have had the whole storm. in West Knoxville. She is a ripping. Same here. Just hit the 4 inch mark. Adding up faster now. Still holding strong at 29. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill in MS Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 14 minutes ago, 1234snow said: 2” now. Roads aren’t covered here yet. Any ground reports from Northern Mississippi? Radar looks intense there. 3.5 inches in Hernando total. Got an inch from this band in about 1.5 hours. .. but back edge coming quick. Points 20-50 miles south of me, in the WSW-ENE band around Batesville, MS to Oxford and then Northeast to just below Corinth seeing at least 1 to 1.5 inch an hour rates with huge flakes. Maybe two inch an hour rates. Also, heavy sleet in some of that banding. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RawCrabMeat Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Well, for what it’s worth, I’m seeing more flakes mixing in now. We’ll see if it stays around. It’s slick outside but only grass is white 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckethead Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Yeah, I don’t know what to make of it. Hoping for the ground to remain white at this point. Appears all of the NC border counties are getting blanked right nowI've had steady moderate snow all day at my house (elev 4360) so far about 1500' into NC. 28 up there. Elevation is everything though, 3 miles away at 3100 it's been almost nothing but rain and 32. Sent from my SM-S908U using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted January 15 Author Share Posted January 15 Radar always looks more impressive for snow the closer you get to the radar site. You can see this with every event where snow is coming at decent rates over a large area. Right now you can see the bands that look very intense in a circle around Morristown, especially south and south east where the terrain isn't as ridge/mountainous. Meanwhile there's a strip of the Western Plateau were it appears nothing is happening. But suddenly returns keep appearing as if areas upstream from there are getting snow but you can't see it. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxjagman Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 1 minute ago, Silas Lang said: Same here. Just hit the 4 inch mark. Adding up faster now. Still holding strong at 29. Yeah we did good with this system,should be around 8" so far,ill go out and measure it later today 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyhound Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Same here. Just hit the 4 inch mark. Adding up faster now. Still holding strong at 29. Aren’t you around the Inskip road area? I’m in the neighborhood up behind St Joseph’s off Cedar Lane. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silas Lang Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 3 minutes ago, Greyhound said: Aren’t you around the Inskip road area? I’m in the neighborhood up behind St Joseph’s off Cedar Lane . Yeah man! I am in your neck of the woods. Been fantastic! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jed33 Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Closing in on 4in now wow! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearman Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 How long is this suppose to last in Knoxville Area? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fountainguy97 Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 31.8 Beautiful snow. I'll take this as an absolute win. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BhamParker Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Heaviest snow of the event so far here in the mountains. Really coming down hard now . 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stovepipe Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 I've joined the 4 inch club. Maynardville Hwy is passable but the brine is losing the battle. I'm actually fairly proud of north Knox as I did not see anyone doing donuts in the road or parking lots yet. Although, for some reason quite a few people stop obeying traffic lights and stop signs in this mess. Yeah buddy, your diesel truck is cool, but you still need to stop at the red light. Anyway, very happy to get a pasting in this area. Might be a 20 year storm before it's over. 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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