Joe’s 4-Day EMOJI 4-Cast features: 💧🥶➡️🥵☀️ 💧After some morning drizzle, the cold front has slid south of the TRI into the Carolina’s for your Monday and certainly bringing us back to reality, after our record shattering high Sunday at 83°, some even had heat index values nearing 90°; Summer-like for the first weekend of Spring. The clouds will hang tough into your Monday afternoon, a spotty shower, mainly in the mountains and into SW VA. Highs falling from the earlier 70s

Your Monday #MarchMadness Wacky Weather Forecast: A SLIGHT RISK of severe WX has been issued for tonight, including the TRI metro. WIND ADVISORY TRI / HIGH WIND WARNING MTNS: Winds could gust over 70mph in wind prone areas tonight into early Monday. Isolated tornadoes are possible after 3am, greater threat will be west of the TRI. 🔋Charge all your devices now in case you lose power overnight. 💨 💦Rain to SN❄️W — by early afternoon the flakes will even be flying in the TRI,

Joe’s 4-Day EMOJI 4-Cast features: ☃️ 🎊Flakes are flyin’ in SN❄️WY’borough this morning like confetti for my birthday! Thanks so much for the warm messages already coming in this morning! 🥳 🌨️Use caution: Now that we’ve been near or below freezing for over 24 hours expect the SN❄️W that falls to stick to everything. Still gusty winds at times as these scattered squalls and SN❄️W shower activity could be locally heavy at times through this evening in the TRI. Could continue

Here We G❄️ Again… 🎶 Per the NWS Morristown Saturday Afternoon — “WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO MIDNIGHT MONDAY NIGHT...❄️ * WHAT...Two rounds of snow are expected. The first round from tonight into Sunday morning. Then the second round from Sunday night through Monday. Total snow accumulations from both rounds from 1 to 3 inches from 2500 to 4000 feet. From 2 to 6 inches above 4000 feet. Isolated amounts over 6 inches near to above 6000 feet. Wi

Joe’s 4-Day EMOJI 4-Cast features: 🌂🌬️☃️ After a stormy start to your Fri-YAY, get ready for a sunny remainder of the day with blue skies during the afternoon and highs topping out in the upper 60s to lower 70s. A few scattered showers are possible early Saturday, then turning partly cloudy still mild with highs near 60°. Enjoy because Saturday night a storm system moves in bringing more rain to the area around and after midnight, changing to SN❄️W Sunday morning. There cou

J☀️E’s 4-Day EMOJI 4-Cast features: 😎 Let’s kick off the work week with more sunshine and warmer weather! Highs ABOVE Average the next few days, so a nice thaw to get the work week started. For the first time since January 9th we will top out in the 60s on Tuesday, maybe even near 70° around Knoxville! Now that’s a nice break from the “festive flakes we’ve seen consistently for the past week. Clouds increase Tuesday with rain developing area wide Tuesday night into Wednesday

Joe’s 4-Day EMOJI 4-Cast features: 🌨️ Another Weekend with M❄️RE Wintry Weather… One last round of wintry weather… for now! Already a few flakes have been spotted around the TRI on Friday (2/6) morning. M❄️RE is dropping in later today on the heels of another Arctic front with associated clipper system. Lake effect moisture and mountain lift we will see enough energy to support, brief period of light rain/sleet between 1-3pm, then later today and especially by sunset (after

Future-cast 5pm Wednesday Radar view: SN❄️ W redevelops across SW VA. and west of I-81 later this afternoon and by this evening is expected in the TRI-Cities. 🥶Turning MUCH colder tonight with lows in the upper teens to near 20°. Areas of ice expected area wide from the melting and recent rainfall. SN❄️W will accumulate from a coating to 1+ inches most areas. Mountains could see 2 or more. The big news will be back in the freezer we go with areas of black ice and new incomin

JOE KNOWS GROUNDHOG’S DAY EMOJI 4-CAST: We just had the C🥶LDEST Morning here in 11 years! BIG NEWS OF THE DAY: PHIL & JOE KNOWS SAYS 6 MORE WEEKS OF WINTER!!! ☃️ For the first time since February 2015, the TRI Airport fell below zero! And we smashed the record of 0° set back in 1971. The official climate data comes out later, the tracker earlier indicated it was -8° for a short time before sunrise today. For the first time since the middle of next week area wide we will warm

J❄️E’S 4-DAY EMOJI 4-Cast Features: 🛷 SN❄️W ST❄️RMS 2 MAIN FACTORS: 1) Heavy Accumulation 2) Arctic C🥶LD Air! ⚠️Expect SN❄️W to develop area wide late morning/early afternoon. The SN❄️W will start to accumulate as early as this afternoon. TDOT is asking you to stay off the roads during the storm to allow crews to keep them clear, unless it’s an emergency.⚠️ #Brrricane: SN❄️W will intensify with bursts of locally heavy snowfall expected as we go through the evening hours. G

**WINTER STORM WATCH — 1pm Friday until 1am Sunday!** J❄️E KN❄️WS Thursday Morning Update: 🌨️NWS STATEMENT:🌨️ ⚠️A Winter Storm Watch has been issued for portions of East Tennessee and southwest Virginia. Heavy SN❄️W is possible from Friday afternoon through late Saturday night, with accumulations between 3 and 7 inches, locally more is possible especially along the TN. N.C border. Winds may gust to 35 mph causing white out conditions at times. ⚠️Travel will likely become

👀As mentioned in Monday’s discussion: 🌨️ Signals are increasing for SN❄️W starting Friday into the upcoming weekend… especially for our Carolina friends. Based on the trends eastern portions of the Carolina’s to the mid-Atlantic **could** be in for a very memorable event. ☃️ ~Let’s see how far west tonights ensemble’s bring it to us. I’ll have another discussion Wednesday AM! 🌨️ 🥶Do you think it’s C🥶LD N🥶W … The cold air that is coming in this weekend could rival today’

J❄️E’s 4-Day EMOJI 4-Cast features: ⚠️🥶⚠️ At midnight (last night) we were in the mid 30s, early morning hours we fell below freezing when a swath of SN❄️W impacted the TRI between 2a-4a, fell through the 20s Monday morning and have been stuck in the teens all afternoon so far! Moral of the story — (besides it being down right COLD), this week between now and Saturday some of us could find ourselves BELOW freezing for 120+ hours. W🥶W! Today we are in the wrap around / upslo

After the morning mix, rain becomes heavy at times into the afternoon hours. Followed by a flash freeze expected tonight! Stay tuned, safe and warm! 🌨️ #JoeKnowsSnow #TNwx

Just Sayin’ — J❄️E KN❄️WS T❄️LD Y❄️U S❄️… Future-cast (this evening) when that well advertised >>by Joe Knows<< swath of moderate SN❄️W intensifies area wide mid to late PM. 🌨️ 🌨️Already light ICE reported in Chatt. @7am SN❄️W in the Plateau and all of this wintry mess will continue to advance eastward. Scattered flurries will start later this morning as advised on the Joe Knows timeline. ⚠️This is why I’ve advised against travel (and per T-DOT), be off the roads by 3pm TRI

❄️⚠️Joe’s 4-Day EMOJI 4-Cast features: ⚠️🧊 Your Fri-YAY will be the calm before the storm and make today your final day for preparations, before the Winter Storm hits. As of right now, it looks like the storm will begin early to mid-Saturday afternoon. 🚨I’m making the official call to please be off the road (unless it’s an emergency) by 3pm Saturday.🚨 Winter Storm Details: The precipitation will get heavier as we get into your Saturday evening. The surface will likely be b

Joe Knows Thursday Update: I love how people are “canceling” this event before it’s even formed because they heard their local media meteorologist say the words: “COLD RAIN.” Honestly, in the nearly 3 decades I’ve had the privilege of forecasting for the Tri-Cities, I’ve never tracked a more dynamic event as this one. I’ve partnered with several other “Mets” both near and far and this one has a mind of its own, as it’s still literally up in the air. That said, let’s review th

⚠️SN❄️W L❄️VERS — This one is (finally) for you… I’ve gotten back to the dozens of messages missed overnight, and now that we’ve celebrated Queen #Dolly, it’s back to regular 🌨️ broadcasting. ☃️ I don’t normally forecast T❄️TALS this far out, but all reliable modeling continues to suggest a powerful winter storm along and North of I-40 — so I’d rather you hear it from Joe Knows. This map attached probably has your attention by now, displaying how much we could get if we see

Joe’s 4-Day EMOJI 4-Cast features: 🌨️ Warmer Tuesday and probably the nicest day of the next 7+ days… Tracking a strong cold front again that will bring late afternoon showers to the area on Wednesday, changing to SN❄️W during the evening hours, especially after dark, by midnight everyone should be seeing the flakes fly into early Thursday. 🌨️Early call Thursday totals — Right now, a light accumulation is looking likely on the valley floor. Areas that see heavier squalls co

💦Joe’s 4-Day EMOJI 4-Cast features: ☔️ 🌨️Winter IS Back Next Week!☃️ Enjoy one last morning this week with spring-like conditions. HaPpY Fri-YAY! As of 10am, Jonesborough, TN. is already up to 64°!!! We will likely top out in the upper 60’s, 6-7° everybody on the way for a high before the rain gets here. Some could hit or get close to 70°! 💨For now, the winds and mountain Wind Advisory is keeping us nice, dry and mild. Winds could gust to 50 mph across eastern Greene, Unic