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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.

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Here's the 12z ECMWF coming in with snow in the ensemble model. Again take these with a grain of salt, but it makes a reasonable argument for snow in Chattanooga.

Of course it would be 37F when it snowed and getting up to 45!

Still snow.

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#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”
vice.com/en/article/y3pywg/sta

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...

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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!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ab

#Hydrology #Water #Insects #Cicadas

Oh my, the 12z NAM deterministic takes the upper level low further west and brings Sunday morning snow to Chattanooga.

Do not bank that, because so far all other runs have been Atlanta/Greenville SC, but do keep your eyes on the forecast.

Both of my kids love Bran cereal. Good for them. At least it's one healthy thing they'll eat.

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.

drive.ohio.gov/about-driveohio

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 😿

#HouWX

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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.

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: spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/tod

@davidmwhite@infosec.exchange Locally I'm not too sure.

The line teaches us in about 45 minutes right now. Not currently severe. Will redevelop overnight

All the plants that are usually green are frost-burned to an unhealthy shade of brown from that cold snap in Chattanooga.

In one hour, Denver went from 42° and blowing dust, to 5° and light snow falling with a wind chill of -19°!

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