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I used to drive to work down 75 to Emory Road, and that stretch between the Merchants Rd. exit to the Callahan Rd. exit, had the strangest weather. It could be nothing but sunshine before Merchants Rd. and BAM!; it would be pouring down in buckets and then stop at Callahan. Or, a blizzard would start at Merchants and you couldn't see two feet in front of you, and when you'd pass the Callahan exit, it would be clear again. It happened too many times to be a coincidence, I always figured it was some kind of geographical phenomenon.

LOL There's a ridge line there causing it. Black Oak runs out there I think but I might be wrong. I have weird things happen where I live. I live about half way up Chestnut Ridge. My parents live at the foot of it both of us on the north slope. It can be snowing at my house about 80-100 ft in elevation above them and raining at theirs. We live about a half mile apart. I also learned it can be raining on one side of Chestnut Ridge or Copper Ridge and snowing on the the other. Quarry hill on Norris Freeway is a real bad place for that.

There's other places too like just north of Lake City along Pilot Mountain. They get real heavy rain. Wytheville, Virginia sticks out in my mind also. I used to drive through there in the late 70's going to and from the ship on weekends etc. In the winter it was always snowing there. About 5 years later I was driving an 18 wheeler a lot up I-81 same thing Wytheville in the winter meant snow especially at night.