The South is getting slammed by a winter storm. How has Knoxville escaped its grasp?
The Knoxville News-Sentinel 2/16/2021 Brittany Crocker, Knoxville News Sentinel
Drive an hour or so west of Knoxville, and you ll enter a landscape that looks more like Minnesota than Middle Tennessee, and that extends through the South as a a major winter storm pummels the region.
What is keeping East Tennessee free from the icy grip that s grabbed hold of most of the region?
It all comes down to the jet stream working in our favor, explained Derek Eisentrout, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Morristown.
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Snow is likely in the Oak Ridge area starting late this afternoon, according to the National Weather Service in Morristown.
The forecast called for rain before 3 p.m. Rain mixed with snow are likely between 3 and 4 p.m., and snow is likely after 4 p.m., the National Weather Service said. A total daytime snow accumulation of less than one inch is possible.
There is a chance of snow before 7 p.m. Christmas Eve, then a chance of snow showers, mainly between 7 p.m. and 3 a.m. Christmas Day, the Weather Service said.
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Children dream and carolers sing of white Christmases, but they’re not wishing for the kind of messy, potentially destructive winter storm that’s expected to sweep across the eastern half of the United States on Christmas Eve.
Heavy snow and blizzard conditions in the Great Plains on Wednesday will be the leading edge of what the National Weather Service described as a “wide range of hazardous weather” expected through Christmas Day, disrupting holiday travel and potentially blacking out twinkling lights all the way to the East Coast. Tornadoes are even possible in Florida.