Winter Weather in Unicoi, Tennessee

Winter Weather January 15, 2024 – January 16, 2024 · Unicoi, Tennessee

What the National Weather Service wrote

Across Unicoi County, moderate rainfall yielded to a light snow at the end of the event. From Facebook pictures, roughly 0.5 inch of snowfall was observed in Erwin, with the COOP observer in Erwin measuring 0.2 inches of snow. Roads in Erwin and Unicoi, including Interstate 26, become snow covered as the event came to a close, hampering transportation interests significantly.

The wider storm

A major snowstorm powered by strong upper level dynamics and widespread preexisting low level cold produced heavy snowfall across East Tennessee.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1159646. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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