Winters in Nashville

[brent6969]

Originally Posted by vivelafrance

That's not true. Nashville had twice as much as snow as Atlanta with over 1 foot total last year. Atlanta was just under 6 inches.

Nashville typically receives twice as much snow as Atlanta.

At the airport yes, Other parts of Atlanta had a total for the winter of 10-15 inches. Also Atlanta gets the CAD effect from the NE, it can and sometimes is 10-15 colder in Atlanta during these "wedging" events. Generally though Nash does get more snow than Atl on average.

[Antioch]

What people never understand, how much snow an area doesn't always have to do with being in the North and South, that's just a generic Weather forcast. It all has to do with timing of where the moisture is and where and when the cold air is in place. Areas in the north don't get more snow just because it is colder, its because of the Great Lakes, which are warmed from the summer and, that provides moisture that interacts with the cold air and produces big snows. Same thing with the East Coast, the Atlantic Ocean provides extra moisture that combinds with moisture that travels from the South, Gulf of Mexico and creates big snows. When D.C. and New York received their big snows the tempuratures where no lower than 34, 33 to 32 degrees during the hype of the storm, but there was enough heavy wet snow to accumulate, where as in Nashville we actually colder but had much drier air so any snow we got was much harder to accumulate and blew around more, not that it was too warm. When the Middle Tennessee area does get wet, heavy accumulating snows, it generally is more south and east of Nashville. Davidson County being the cut off area, Southern and Eastern receiving more than Nortern areas, because 9 times out of 10, the Low Pressure will develop near the Gulf Coast, pick up moisture from the Gulf and travel the close to the same past every time, a path that is usually between Nashville and Atlanta. So snow amounts can vary county to county between the Nashville and Atlanta area, depending on the track the storm takes and weather or not it was cold enough or not too too cold to cause a powdery snow.
I work a part time job in the Rivergate area, which is in the Northern part of Davidson County, live in Antioch, Southeastern. Each one of those snow storms there has been a considerable amount more in Antioch than Rivergate, due to the storms taking more of a southern track. I can remember way back in 1993, the Blizzard of 93' Murfreesboro, and southeastern Davidson county had upwards to 10 to 12 inches of snow with 2 to 3 feet snow drifts, areas south and east even had more, while Clarksville, Joelton and areas North and West had a little as 1 to 3 inches. All due to that "classic" set up, storm track, which also dumped snow on the East Coast that same blizzard.