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chiming in from the sidelines, been too long. good luck everybody! 

Congrats TN valley folks, love this look. 

Late to the party, but picked up 0.10" of snow Thur PM - Fri AM

Season Running Total: 9.4" 

• 1/3/22 -> 1.8"
• 1/16/22 -> 7.5" 
• 1/21/22 -> 0.10" 

From Evan Fisher and the gang at UNCA

09z sounding from UNC Asheville / next one at 12z

Waynesville 

5 minutes ago, wncsnow said:

I think Mt. Mitchell will do a little better but that's awesome

true and agreed. I should have mentioned SW NC as our area. 

Several friends are running up 215 to hike and ride out the storm along the southern portion of the Great Balsams. 

This will likely be the spot for the highest totals in our area

1.8" storm total. Not too shabby. 

30 minutes ago, LiQuiDBuD said:

Big flakes blowing around here in Southern Jackson, just a dusting on grassy and elevated surfaces so far. 32.2 and dropping.

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• Crossroads cam looks solid with 1 - 2" on the ground, same for Highlands but looks a bit more (6am)
• Someone i follow on twitter (and encouraged to join the forum) is out of Yancey at 4500', 1/2 mile from the TN line and is reporting 7" as of 6am. 
• 2" here in the valley (Waynesville), about a mile from downtown the way the crow flies. 

Congrats everyone!

1 minute ago, Met1985 said:

Yeah Haywood in general is sitting pretty along with a lot of WNC. This should be a fun region wide storm were most will get in on the action.  It's about time we saw this change in pattern.

One of the many reasons we moved from Jackson to Haywood was the weather. I was tried of being burned by winter storms in the deeper valleys of SW NC, that and a touch cooler in summers. Although I am a fan of rain and the Plateau is something special. Highlands and many other sites surpassed 100" of rain on the year, for the fourth year in a row. 

9 minutes ago, Maggie Ace said:

It hasn't been mentioned, but I will not be surprised to see near blizzard conditions for some areas early tomorrow morning. Wind gusts to 40 are not out of the equation.

Two storm chasers locally will be camping out along Carver's Gap to live stream (hopefully) blizzard conditions. I wouldnt worry about their safety, these two know what they are doing. 

15 minutes ago, buckeyefan1 said:

 Glad I'm not alone in thinking that. Thanks for the confirmation 

The GSP AFD mentions thundersnow... 

"Thunder snow will be possible as well due to the dynamics of this system and the development of instability within the core of the system."

48 minutes ago, Met1985 said:

I know we are all stoked about the snow but who got blasted this morning by them storms?

Picked up 0.97" in roughly two hours. Woke up to the rumble. 

On 12/30/2021 at 9:11 AM, Met1985 said:

If we don't get prolonged cold the ski resorts will be out of business. 

I run a snowmaking business and its been an insane year for snowmaking hours here in the valley (Waynesville). We've had more snowmaking hours than Cat this season, in particular during December with so many inversions the last few weeks. 

Check out Latitude 90, they are likely to be the new norm for snowmaking at slopes like Cat; internal snowmaking, thrown out from the container. Link: https://latitude90.ca/

Rooting for you up Crabtree for Sunday night, looking good for northern Haywood. 

Highest official total so far is out Lake Toxaway at 17.36" (CoCoRaHS)

Cruso FD picked up 14.17"; 5.28" in just 3 hrs Tuesday (9" for the day), which is the cause of the flash flood down East Fork and into Canton

Rainfall Totals Sun 10am - Tues 11am

northwest Transylvania County

Cold Creek - 10.59"
Balsam Grove FD - 8.9"
Rosman - 6.72"

southern Jackson County

Rock Bridge - 9.13"
Wolf Creek (lake) - 8.31"
Robinson Creek - 5.39"

southern Haywood County

Cruso - 7.64"

Data: FIMAN/NC EM

Dipped to 31°F this morning with frost on grass. 

Not sure who all uses the NC EcoNet stations but they updated their website, dashboard, and added new features on Monday. 

I'm loving it so far, playing with the Mtn Research Station data. We had patchy frost yesterday morning (34.4°F) but only managed to dip down to 37.9°F this morning, no dice. 

Link: https://products.climate.ncsu.edu/cardinal/scout/?station=WAYN 

On 4/4/2021 at 1:59 PM, Tyler Penland said:

Just getting settled back in at the house after our having our first baby. Little boy and everything went great. We were in the hospital for the duration of the worst of the cold. Was pouring snow on us walking in which was pretty cool for this weather geek.

We bottomed out at 13 at the house Friday morning after only reaching 32.7 on Thursday. Wound up with a nice dusting too after the late heavier showers.

Happy Easter everybody!

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Congrats!!!

Took a slight detour on the way to work this morning. Passing snow showers over Canton. 

Driving on I 40 at 2pm around MM 29 and a guy sped by us going at least 70mph, hydroplaned and spun out into a ditch and flipped. It was insane. 

He walked from it but this rain is way too heavy to be flying down the road. Be safe out there y'all. 

21 hours ago, Moonhowl said:

Nice; I just happened to be parking by the gate when the ranger opened it to the Craggy Gardens Visitor Center yesterday.  I ended up being the first car up there after opening the gate; the second car arrived about a minute after me.  Numerous times my wife and I hiking or myself on the bicycle have been on a closed section of the Parkway and they opened it.  I was always amazed at how quickly the cars followed.  This time it was me LOL.

 

There is a slight celebration feel to it. I def was not the first, there were many cars at overlooks taking advantage of the open trailheads but everyone was excited for it be back open. 

Parkway is back open and found some light snow around 9am. Looks like most of the parkway picked up a skiff overnight. 

This was taken nearby Devil's Courthouse/Beech Gap/Hwy 215 

11 hours ago, Rainforrest said:

4” and still coming down pretty good. Hoping that coming through Alabama will give me a few more inches. 

@Rainforrest what did you end up with? 

2.5" in Waynesville. A nice drive around town this morning. 

0.5" at 6pm in Waynesville 

Highlands and Cashiers are north of 1" based on webcams

Nothing on the ground in Cullowhee