SPRING WILDFLOWERS

I ventured out into the woods by my house Sunday to survey the wildflower displays.  What amazed me most were the varieties of flowers out together that normally aren't out together....I'll chalk it up to our "spring that won't stay sprung."  Towards the entrance to Apple Creek, the flowers and tree leaves are much farther along than higher up.  There is lots of wild phlox and yellow hawkweed along the road as you turn in, but I only took pictures of plants here at the end of Staymon Road.  There were a couple I saw but didn't get, so I may add some after our incoming rain moves on.  Happy Monday!  Enjoy. (Click on pictures to enlarge)

Wake Robin Trillium

Squirrel Corn

Cut-leaved Toothwort

Dwarf Larkspur

Nodding Mandarin

developing Solomon's Seal

False Solomon's Seal

Blue Cohosh

Smooth Yellow Violet

Canadian Violet

Spring Beauty

Star Chickweed

Stonecrop

Large Flowering Bellwort

Buckeye  - the first tree to produce leaves

Bob

UPCOMING WEATHER NOTES

3-30-18 from the end of Staymon (click to enlarge)

I will be away from the computer to update the blog until Sunday night, so I wanted to put a few notes 'out there' for what's ahead.

Spring can't seem to stay sprung around these parts for very long this year, and we'll have another strong cold front cross this region on Sunday.  Ahead of and along the front will be pockets of heavy rain and thunderstorms that may reach severe levels for damaging winds.  If they approach moving relatively west to east, the Great Smokies will absorb a good bit of the energy for cells heading for ACA.  If the move SW to NE, we won't be quite as protected...in any event, heads up for possible trees down or a power outage (they never really last long, overall, when they occur).

Then, in the predawn hours Monday, snow is being talked about behind the front.  At this moment, both of my models are going 0-1" for ACA, with 2" along the immediate TN border above 3500'.  I don't see anything for the valleys, so I imagine the NWS may put out another HWO (hazardous weather outlook) for the snow on Sunday, for elevations above 3500'.

When I return Sunday night, I'll update if the above information is significantly different.


Bob