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Current Wind Chills Values with the 982mb Low in Canada. Wow. Heaters are on and the snow is falling in Minnesota. Some spots getting some heavy snow now. Like outside Duluth
Current Wind Chills Values with the 982mb Low in Canada. Wow. Heaters are on and the snow is falling in Minnesota. Some spots getting some heavy snow now. Like outside Duluth
About Jan 15th, if you're lucky...lol. Granted, the higher mountain peaks do get snow in November (even flurries in Oct), but nothing that sticks around. The main problem of snow-chasing in NC / TN is having access to the higher elevations - sometimes you have to park low and hike up. I'd love to do a winter hike of Mt LeConte sometime though.
As for Michigan, you bet they're a lucky state. I luuuurve Michigan.
A Mt LeConte hike can be very dangerous in winter, very slick conditions up there. I hiked it this summer and cannot imagine how dangerous it could be in winter. That being said the winter visability would be excellent, so I bet its beautiful at that time of year. It is beautiful any time of year, I loved going up there. Those looking for snow in Tennessee low elevations however would be very disappointed. Get below 3000 feet and it becomes rare. Get down in the valley and its a typical southern winter. Fifty degree days are normal in January, but several times a year snow may fall. Here in the Knoxville area we get about 6 inches total a year. If we do get snow everything shuts down, and then the next day it is gone. Compare that to the upper Midwest states being discussed on this thread our so called "winter" is a joke. Wisconsin, Michigan and Wisconsin receive over a hundred inches of snow every year in some places. Snow remains on the ground there for up to 6 months in select locations downwind from the big lakes. Even away from the lakes the winters there are long and brutal by the standards of most Americans. How do I know this??? I used to live near Lake Superior, and lived the upper Midwest winters. It is a different world up there, winter is part of daily life and everyone there knows how to deal with it. In fact people who live there happily learn to love winter, because if they didn't love it they would be miserable 6 months out of the year.
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I luuuurve Michigan. 
