This morning's 12z NAM has settled down quite a bit. It still tracks the low across the Macon/Atlanta line - which is the IDEAL track for Chattanooga to receive snow!
BUT...it's just not cold enough. We're talking valley temps in the upper 30s at potential snowfall time and that's not good enough.
Heck, that might not even be good enough for snow on Lookout or Signal Mountain here.
Snow for the Smokies? Sure. And maybe for the western parts of the Cumberland plateau, too.
Now is the chance for Chattanooga snow 0? No it's not. But it is dropping.
And once again - any impact will be very limited, because it's just plain warm out and it has been all week. Temps Sunday will be in the mid 40s regardless of any snow in the morning.
#TNwx #chawx
#Starbucks Asked a COVID-Positive Employee to Work, Then Fired Him for Tweeting About It
“Scott “included the address of the store & invited the public to visit him at this store location, while #COVID-19 positive,” the company said in firing paperwork. “This tweet adversely affects Starbucks, customers, & partner [sic]...”
"I wasn’t inviting customers to come catch COVID, I was letting them know that there’s going to be a #COVID positive person here & to stay away”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pywg/starbucks-union-covid-positive-tweet
Doesn't look like I can see anything.
I don't really have time to fool with it either - I'm sure there's a way, but between work and kids...
Just wanted to see if this worked on Mastodon. Probably not but who knows?
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New article by Darren Ficklin et al on "Influence of the 2021 Brood X cicada emergence on near surface hydrology in forested and urban landscapes" finds that cicada burrows only had an impact on near surface hydrologic processes at *undisturbed* sites. Soil compaction at disturbed sites likely was too much for the cicadas to overcome!
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/hyp.14822
I posted a version of this graphic a couple weeks ago, but based on discussions, here is the change in snow cover length season just since the start of the satellite era (1979). Same story: the length of the snow cover season is getting shorter almost everywhere in Alaska. Data from Rantanen 2023 using ERA5.
#akwx #winter #snow #ClimateChange
@Climatologist49 @capture907 @anisian
Automated vehicle tests coming to Ohio under the management by ODOT, both in Rural SE Ohio, and on U.S. 33 with truck platoons
There is another program for automated trucks on the I-70 coming this year in conjunction with Indiana.
Here are pics my husband took on his way home from work. #DeerPark is part of his regular commute. You can see train cars flipped over and the fires due to the refineries flaring.
How school was very near the #tornado that passed through #houston today, but thankfully it missed them. Thinking about all who experienced loss, and of the poor animal shelter in Pasadena
Winter snow totals from the storm pushing in to the Ohio Valley keep coming in lower than expected (though the Ozarks of NW Arkansas still got 1'!), but the road delays have been relatively low for this size of a storm. #roadweather
Here's a video Selma, Alabama resident Bailey Harris sent me from the historic district in town after tornado damage. The white building is Sturdivant Hall. #selma
Plenty of severe #weather was reported to NWS Storm Prediction Center for January 12th
Reports can be viewed individually here: https://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/today.html
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