We got lucky. The rain continuously fizzled as it crossed the mountains...which is actually what forecast models were showing earlier in the week before they locked in on a solution that drowned Knoxville.
Turns out, the Vols met expectations just about as well as the weather.
All that modeling firepower and it still whiffs.
Which is why I just wait and check Weather Channel website the day of.
But those models do track hurricane paths pretty well a day or two ahead, which is invaluable. One problem with trying to predict rain is that at the end of the day Neyland is pretty small. It could be raining hard just over the river in South Knoxville and miss the stadium altogether.