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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.