possible retirement move to Knoxville area (Oak Ridge, Morristown: living, floor, versus)

[geranium]

Weather patterns vary from year to year. We sometimes have wet winters and may have a week of gray with intermittent rain, followed by yet another week of gray. Other years may be drier with more blue sky. We have years when we hover at zero for a night or two and people lose outdoor plants and years when it's so warm that the darn bugs don't die.

Frankly, I remember a winter that I threatened to leave my husband home with the dog and take my cat to Florida. But it was raining there too. (And that cat does hate to travel.)

[DaveinMtAiry]

Originally Posted by geranium

Weather patterns vary from year to year. We sometimes have wet winters and may have a week of gray with intermittent rain, followed by yet another week of gray. Other years may be drier with more blue sky. We have years when we hover at zero for a night or two and people lose outdoor plants and years when it's so warm that the darn bugs don't die.

Frankly, I remember a winter that I threatened to leave my husband home with the dog and take my cat to Florida. But it was raining there too. (And that cat does hate to travel.)

Yeah I get that. Here in Central Maryland we literally had 40" of snow one year then just a trace the next. So the averages don't always tell the whole story.


I'm trying to figure out if the rainy days there are all day affairs typically or as is the case in the Tri Cities a lot of summer days are nice, then a big storm comes in late. It goes down as a rainy day and 1" of rain but in reality it was mostly a nice day.


Does that make sense?

[SkyNSea55]

East Tennessee will seem pretty gray over the winter months. We really noticed it when we moved to Charleston SC and were able to enjoy sitting on our deck in January in full sunshine. (It kind of makes up for the hot, humid summers.) East TN is absolutely beautiful, but you may not find the blue winter skies you are looking for.

[DaveinMtAiry]

What about the rest of the year?

[NYS2Tennessee]

Originally Posted by DaveinMtAiry

What about the rest of the year?

I think the weather is wonderful here... but I'm from N.Y. so pretty much anything beats NY winters.
It seems that storms are short and pass quickly, that's not as many days of all rain here as there were in NY.
Winter is short here. There are many more trees that stay green year round here.

[crltn19]

NOAA weather data from 1981 to 2010:

Sunshine:
https://www.currentresults.com/Weath...f-sunshine.php

Precipitation:
https://www.currentresults.com/Weath...cipitation.php

[hiknapster]

I'm from New England where it appeared gray most of the year or at least it felt that way to me. When I look back on my memories, there is almost always a gray backdrop.

Then I lived in sunny Florida and they are really not kidding when they call it the sunshine state. I thought that was a tourism sales pitch, but turns out that it isn't.

I feel that Knoxville falls somewhere in-between, historical data be damned.

[DaveinMtAiry]

Originally Posted by crlny12

NOAA weather data from 1981 to 2010:

Sunshine:
https://www.currentresults.com/Weath...f-sunshine.php

Precipitation:
https://www.currentresults.com/Weath...cipitation.php

These may be the best weather links anyone has supplied to me, thank you. It appears as if the amount of sun in Knoxville is not that much different than here in MD. So put that with a shorter winter and I'm liking what I'm finding.


Thanks again.

[DubbleT]

I don't know if anyone will find it helpful, but I have very recently begun adding daily entries to my old weather blog. Just a couple of short sentences about the daily weather in northeast TN that covers some of this kind of info. I thought it might help give a better understanding of the weather here than just reading stats alone.

[DaveinMtAiry]

Originally Posted by DubbleT

I don't know if anyone will find it helpful, but I have very recently begun adding daily entries to my old weather blog. Just a couple of short sentences about the daily weather in northeast TN that covers some of this kind of info. I thought it might help give a better understanding of the weather here than just reading stats alone.

You were the one to tell me that the rain figures in the Tri-Cities are deceiving as often a nice day will have a late day thunderstorm that counts as a day of rain and goes into the rain totals but it was actually a nice day.


I'm trying to figure out if Knoxville is the same way. The charts only show total days it rains but it does not distinguish a 20 hour soak from a beautiful day with a late day storm. I'm really interested to learn if Knoxville is the same way as the Tri Cities.