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Icy North I-40 event January 5th


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Here in Clarksville TN (almost Kentucky) - we had sleet and freezing rain on and off from about midnight through 5am. I fell asleep and between 5am to 9am it flipped over to pretty solidly rain, rain, rain. Every once in awhile it feels as though something a little more solid drops out the clouds but we are sitting at 34° at my house - though the small airport town the road says 37°. Ice is close to our north, maybe 30 miles away. Supposed to flip to snow at some point overnight. The high is ~supposed~ to make it to 46° today but it’s 2:30 and 34° so I just don’t see how that’s possible. 
 

The kids are hoping for a snow day tomorrow, but I’m not sure if that happens.   

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50 minutes ago, BlunderStorm said:

Us southwest Virginians are honorary Tennessee Valley members :guitar:. I always saw the sub forum boundaries like this:yMLiP9k.png

Good to know as I didn't have that context. The subheading under 'Tennessee Valley' specifically states the regions I mentioned (so I might suggest a revision there to avoid confusion). At any rate, 'twas just a request for clarity given it's hard sometimes to understand the boundaries from subforum to subforum. Interestingly, it seems we have more mid-Atlantic posters than west TN/MS/AL/KY posters. Hopefully, we can see more balance moving forward. 

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1 minute ago, BlunderStorm said:

Us southwest Virginians are honorary Tennessee Valley members :guitar:. I always saw the sub forum boundaries like this:yMLiP9k.png

Nah, no need to justify it.  You all have been with us form the first day that we split from the southeast forum.  Don't even think twice about it.  We aren't letting the Mid-Atlantic forum have you all.  LOL.  

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Honestly, we have grown to intermittently claim western North Carolina (depending on the event) posters, some eastern Arkansas folks(Will maybe), southern Ohio, and a few some from southern Illinois, Indiana, and/or Missouri.  All are welcome.  Super glad to see our middle and west TN posters as well!  

I think the quality of posting in this forum by everybody brings people together from places which I never thought possible before the wx forum concept.  It really does a great job of including places outside of the "original charter."  Plus, a lot of the maps that many share here...they cover those aforementioned areas.  Some of their sub-forums aren't as active as ours.

We used to be part of the southeast forum, but that forum covered weather for mainly the Research Triangle.  So Mr Bob and company managed to get us our own shingle many years ago.  A lot of us (now getting AARP mailers) are part of another weather forum(SE forum as well) which preceded this one.  

The very first weather model I looked at was the NAVY NOGAPS.  I got tired of trying to learn how to read it, so I stumbled about and found a group who was posting in the SE forum (from SW VA and E TN).  

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Just now, Scottie16 said:

System is about 3 hours ahead of schedule?


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Yes.  We had snow/sleet/zr around 10:00AM when the forecast had us set for early afternoon.  I miscalculated(I followed the local NWS office's opinion that the atmosphere would take longer to saturate), and just about didn't get to the house (not in a 4wd) this morning.  We had to turn on Waze to get traffic reports and had the radar on.....I didn't drive the truck this morning, and wished I had!  Fortunately, I-26 wasn't crowded this morning.

Looks like rain for MBY from here on out.

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Yes.  We had snow/sleet/zr around 10:00AM when the forecast had us set for early afternoon.  I miscalculated(I followed the local NWS office's opinion that the atmosphere would take longer to saturate), and just about didn't get to the house (not in a 4wd) this morning.  We had to turn on Waze to get traffic reports and had the radar on.....I didn't drive the truck this morning, and wished I had!  Fortunately, I-26 wasn't crowded this morning.
Looks like rain for MBY from here on out.

This next wave that’s in Chattanooga didn’t bring up any warm air, it’s actually cooled temperatures from the heavy precipitation. (From different stations in the area)

Really going to be interesting to see how it fluctuates the forecast for later this evening.


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