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Looks like this Wednesday November 12th it is for opening day this season.

Just straight pouring the snow in Kingsport.

12° with moderate to heavy snow and foggy in Wolf. Over 4" now. Sent from my SM-S908U using Tapatalk

Nothing like East TN, but we’ve had a few bouts of flurries and snow showers here in middle TN. I’ll take it for November 10th.

31 currently with flurries. Feels like mid-December up here.

Well, one thing is clear. The moisture is certainly breaking containment.

Rapidly falling heights, TTs above 55 boom 2 to 3 rate

Still sunny in Asheville with hardly a flurry, might be the wrong orientation here.

Based on how much discussion there was on social media of the NWS snowfall maps with the huge ranges, was that a topic on here and did anyone attempt to address what those ranges represent? I'd be happy to, just don't want to rehash if it's already been covered. Sent from my SM-S936U using Tapatalk

I can 100% see us getting 5 minutes of flurries, being "first", then not seeing anything else for the winter!

Also if you're a Chicagoan who likes snow, getting in on any heavy LES prior to the halfway point of November is a big win and extremely rare (I don't recall any events in my time here). I believe there may have been one back in 2000.

Not our climo. I’ll sacrifice it though for lake enhancement during the big dogs

Snow in VA Tech and it's accumulating. Photo was taken at 9AM.

Yeah nice 850mb fronto over Capital District and moving north

Getting absolutely smoked for the past 45 mins. 1.25 inch new and maybe 50-100 yards of visibility if I’m being generous. Temp fell to 19.

Man that winter outlook is grim. A cold March with below normal snow lol

I think it's blocked and the trajectory of the precip moving almost due north. Probably helps to have a strong thermal gradient in there too as the cold can come into the Champlain Valley and west slopes unmitigated (it's already cooling down near freezing in the Champlain Valley). It takes a bit more for that low level cold to cross the barrier, so likely more mixed or non-snow precip to start. ECMWF and ICON are definitely a bit further east with the precipitation, but I think synoptically it would make sense for the western slopes or even Champlain Valley to wring out the moisture better. A lot of low level fog and mist around right now, feels like the low levels are juiced. Seeder feeder with mid-level lift and then low level orographic juice too. I will say it is inverted at the ski area right now. 36F at 3,600ft 38F at 2,600ft 32F at 1,500ft

Mid levels adding a boost to this. Albany radar lighting up.

KMRX is just an absurd radar loop right now. @Bucketheadis going to get a foot+.

It's definitely a day where if this was truly cold ground or if the snow came over for an hour instead of 20 minute bursts over 3 hours, we'd probably get 3 or 4 inches.

Is blocked flow keeping spine QPF lower than the valley? Hoping more of this can creep over and onto the immediate leeward slopes

This. As this case shows, it's tough to get things just right for a certain location with lake effect on the south end of the lake even when there is stationary banding. The jackpot zones are almost always going to be narrow. It's what makes events like Feb 14-16, 2021 rare for the city.

So far just virga on the radar but looks to be trying to drop down over here.

Yeah, I'm skeptical of those QPF amounts but we'll see. If it verifies, thunder would fit. It's hard to rip out that much QPF in like 4 hours of fast moving lift in a colder air mass. It's like 4-8pm or 5-9pm and done.

Same here. Some of the most intense snow in years, immediately followed by bright sunshine. Then repeat.