BlueRidgeFolklore

Yea during those CAD setups with cold air coming from the east and warm air to the northwest, it seeps down that French Broad River valley to the from Tennessee and can cut down total in and around Asheville. That's what I was alluding to. All depends on the setup. You definitely do better with NWF that points south.

IMO it's not the difference in latitude between Fletcher and Downtown that causes the larger descrepecy but the fact that the airport weather station resides along the largest body of moving water in WNC. Same could be said for an area along the French Broad well north of Downtown. This a weather station reading in Hot Springs. The river simply has too much influence. Just east of Fletcher atop Bearwallow Mtn, they are reporting a temperature of 20 degrees. Nearly a 20 degree difference in about 7 short miles. https://climate.ncsu.edu/cronos/?station=BEAR

True, but then look at snow events like December where when storms come from the South, the difference between downtown and Fletcher was a few inches. All in all, I think it averages out.

Pingers all the way down to Hendersonville.

Is that additional snow tonight?

Absolutely ripping here. Think we can stave off that warm nose?

Trying to hang on!

This is actually Bat Cave. Staying with family this weekend.

Looking good my way!

HRRR aligns with reports we're seeing right now. Snow along southern escarpment, AVL and points north struggling to cool down.

Drove out to the continental divide in Edneyville. 33 degrees and dumping. Seems AVL proper and north may fall victim to the French Broad River valley letting in too much warm air from Tennessee.

Hendersonville is dumping which isn't dependent on elevation. Could it be it's closer proximity to the escapement and the wedge?

The snow is coming down good in Hendersonville

NAM has been horrible but the RGEM is showing the warm nose too.

HT is a professional. Let's make sure not to discount his contributions simply because it's not what we want to here. I do want to remain hopeful however.

I can assure you that Brevard and Hendersonville rarely end up far off from one another with these setups. Orographic Lifting will do work on both.

This is the mountain thread. We're all one big family here. lol Post away!

Oh yea, that area will do really good.

Exactly. It's getting tough to track in the main threads. It's either too far north for some folks, too far south for others, too warm for many, then I realize it's just right for WNC. Lol. I think I'll just hang out here and see what HT has to say.

GFS looks good for the northern mtns. I think in general, all of WNC will do great.

I'm not sure I have enough milk sandwich supplies for this. Insane numbers!

My comment was a general response to the discussion not a counter to any specifics.

From Highlands to Hendersonville are going to get lambasted.