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Wintry Jan 6-7 2022 Winter potential

I'm right at 5.75" on the southern side of Davidson county/Nashville. Two snows in one week. I feel spoiled. All yall that didn't get anything today can take the rest of the snow this year. I got my fix.
Yeah, that's not how this works. You will likely see a few more big snows before the season is over. I think TN is going to jackpot this year!
 
Quick look at webcams just north of Nashville, Whites Creek to the ENE near Hendersonville. Eyeballing guardrails, looks to be about 10”. A little more than half fell as wet, you can see some melting in the divide of that last image.

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Rain/Sleet now in Roanoke. The rain is 100% melted snowflakes just above us as the appearance of it is different.
 
Spitting snow so I guess it is a matter of if we can cool enough for it to accumulate. Radar has showed it falling for a good bit but just now breaking through. Nam with a burst of snow now so I guess we see what nowcasting brings.
 
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Lets see if we can pull something measurable out of these last few minutes we have.
Doesn’t seem like it. We are almost done and it’s only sticking to my car ?. At least the flakes are big
 
2 hour delay option to close millers creek schools Wilkes co and some daycares in Winston too. Icy ❄️
 
Not nearly as much as models suggested for my area earlier this week but I'll take two events in a few days! NW flow pushing me up to .5 inches this morning and a temp of 17.5.

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Sapporo Japan, Stampede Pass WA, Valdez AK, or Mount Washington NH. All average over 100 inches per year.

Getting snow wouldn't be anywhere near the same for me personally if I were at a place that gets tons of it. Actually, I'd probably get sick of it and want a break. If getting tons of snow every winter were important to me, I would have moved north long ago. But it isn't. And I actually moved to a place getting much less on average....none during 75% of winters. It is the novelty of getting a rare deep south snow as well as the tracking of it that excites the heck out of me. If a place had snowcover most days of winter, it would become ordinary to me. If a place had snow all of the time and thus didn't close down for it, it would be anticlimactic.
 
Getting snow wouldn't be anywhere near the same for me personally if I were at a place that gets tons of it. Actually, I'd probably get sick of it and want a break. If getting tons of snow every winter were important to me, I would have moved north long ago. But it isn't. And I actually moved to a place getting much less on average....none during 75% of winters. It is the novelty of getting a rare deep south snow as well as the tracking of it that excites the heck out of me. If a place had snowcover most days of winter, it would become ordinary to me. If a place had snow all of the time and thus didn't close down for it, it would be anticlimactic.
I generally like it if its going to be cold. After March, Im ready to see it melt. But November on, bring it, and the cold.
 
Getting snow wouldn't be anywhere near the same for me personally if I were at a place that gets tons of it. Actually, I'd probably get sick of it and want a break. If getting tons of snow every winter were important to me, I would have moved north long ago. But it isn't. And I actually moved to a place getting much less on average....none during 75% of winters. It is the novelty of getting a rare deep south snow as well as the tracking of it that excites the heck out of me. If a place had snowcover most days of winter, it would become ordinary to me. If a place had snow all of the time and thus didn't close down for it, it would be anticlimactic.
I would like to move to the TN side of the Smokey Mountains. Just enough snow to enjoy but not enough for it to become a nuisance.
 
Getting snow wouldn't be anywhere near the same for me personally if I were at a place that gets tons of it. Actually, I'd probably get sick of it and want a break. If getting tons of snow every winter were important to me, I would have moved north long ago. But it isn't. And I actually moved to a place getting much less on average....none during 75% of winters. It is the novelty of getting a rare deep south snow as well as the tracking of it that excites the heck out of me. If a place had snowcover most days of winter, it would become ordinary to me. If a place had snow all of the time and thus didn't close down for it, it would be anticlimactic.
There is definitely some truth to this. I would definitely still like to live in a snowier climate than I do, but snow is also a fairly minor part of my life overall. I don’t base where I live based on the climate, though I suppose if it were snowier that would be the icing on the cake! I like it here, so I don’t plan on moving, and I was fairly content during my years in Florida with regards to the climate. In some ways, it was better than here since there was not even any illusion of getting any significant snow for the most part (aside from January 2018), so I didn’t waste hours and hours every winter and pining for snow that usually doesn’t deliver! ?
 
Getting snow wouldn't be anywhere near the same for me personally if I were at a place that gets tons of it. Actually, I'd probably get sick of it and want a break. If getting tons of snow every winter were important to me, I would have moved north long ago. But it isn't. And I actually moved to a place getting much less on average....none during 75% of winters. It is the novelty of getting a rare deep south snow as well as the tracking of it that excites the heck out of me. If a place had snowcover most days of winter, it would become ordinary to me. If a place had snow all of the time and thus didn't close down for it, it would be ananticlimactic.
It's totally not the same. You think anyone up north gets excited about 1-3" of snow ? Snow is so much more exciting in the south. I think the I-40 corridor is the ideal location because you get snow every winter but you still get excitement over it.
 
There is definitely some truth to this. I would definitely still like to live in a snowier climate than I do, but snow is also a fairly minor part of my life overall. I don’t base where I live based on the climate, though I suppose if it were snowier that would be the icing on the cake! I like it here, so I don’t plan on moving, and I was fairly content during my years in Florida with regards to the climate. In some ways, it was better than here since there was not even any illusion of getting any significant snow for the most part (aside from January 2018), so I didn’t waste hours and hours every winter and pining for snow that usually doesn’t deliver! ?
Nothing wrong with near year round tropical either. I enjoy that as well.
 
It's totally not the same. You think anyone up north gets excited about 1-3" of snow ? Snow is so much more exciting in the south. I think the I-40 corridor is the ideal location because you get snow every winter but you still get excitement over it.
This. I use to want to move somewhere like northeast Ohio or Indiana, especially during years where I only got 2 or less inches. Luckily that almost never happens 3 years in a row here. But now I realize how much I like living in Tennessee and that a big snow or two a winter is much more exciting. When we get multiple winters with big snows I realize that getting even 5-6 big snows a year would probably get a little tiresome with the cold weather that comes with it. It also makes it much more fun to track and wonder what or what not each winter will bring. 15,16,18,21 and 22 have all been winters with at least one 3 inch plus snow. Most of those years it was multiple snows so the last 5 winters out of 7 have been excellent. I’m now more then content living here in the great state of Tennessee. As for my old state California. Golden state my ass!
 
Getting snow wouldn't be anywhere near the same for me personally if I were at a place that gets tons of it. Actually, I'd probably get sick of it and want a break. If getting tons of snow every winter were important to me, I would have moved north long ago. But it isn't. And I actually moved to a place getting much less on average....none during 75% of winters. It is the novelty of getting a rare deep south snow as well as the tracking of it that excites the heck out of me. If a place had snowcover most days of winter, it would become ordinary to me. If a place had snow all of the time and thus didn't close down for it, it would be anticlimactic.
Ever since I moved up here to Montana just seeing snow fall bring excitement but Honestly even though we average quite a bit of snowfall each winter the ice chilling wind and temps is what has me less enthused
 
It's totally not the same. You think anyone up north gets excited about 1-3" of snow ? Snow is so much more exciting in the south. I think the I-40 corridor is the ideal location because you get snow every winter but you still get excitement over it.

I'm waiting for my first snowstorm here. I'm just curious to compare it to living in Dallas and Alabama with much worse snow climo. For one we actually have plows here ???
 
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