WXNewton

Light snow here in Newton kind of a pixie dust look.

From a good friend of mine in Fleetwood, Ashe County!

Definitely some wet flakes mixing in now in Newton.

https://www.resortcams.com/webcams/blowing-rock/ The webcam out of Blowing Rock is simply amazing with the snow in the trees.

I miss my house up in Ashe County on days like today. I had good elevation in the area I was in and also cashed in being closer to VA sometimes. I might have to go land hunting soon and build another one.

From my cousin in Todd.

33.3

18z UKMET has a storm too at the very end, temps are marginal outside of the mountains, but not too far off.

I might be wrong here, but I feel like the Dec 2018 storm definitely had some enhanced right around the escarpment.

Another great storm that was totally overlooked on all the local news stations was back in Jan 22-23 of 2003. Anyone else remember this one? I remember that we only had advisory's posted for 1-2" and then the storm formed a lee-side trough and snowfall was greatly enhanced in the western part of the state. The classic radar on the Weather Channel " Local on the eights" just seemed to stall the moisture over us, I remember Eric Thomas ending the late night news by saying folks, we have some updated models that just came in and these 1-2 inches totals are more than likely going to be much greater than we originally expected. Not long after that Winter Storm Warnings were post for 6-10." Was a cold storm too, temps in low 20s.

I remember the lee-side drought on that one, I apologize for bringing it up.

March 1st of 09, was one of my favorites as well, first time seeing thunder snow. Was a quick hitting upper low pivoting up from ATL and crushed parts of Catawba County with nearly 8"+ of heavy wet snow. All fell from 5-6 pm and was done by 11 pm. Trees were absolutely beautiful.

The radar of that upper level energy pivoting through was something else! Definitely the best two part system of recent memory. I lived in Maiden at the time and we only had 4-5 inches out of day one, turned to sleet that night and the next morning we picked up 6"+ out of the upper low in about 4-5 hrs. Great storm!

That was a great storm! I remember riding around with my brother that night and the snow/sleet line was setup right through Newton. North side of town it was hammering and then on the south side was some of the hardest falling sleet I've ever seen. About day break there was a band that moved through and in 2 hrs we went from 7-8 inches of snow/sleet to about 11"-12", on the ground.

Jan 29-30 2010 was a great event too, I called that the T-storm. As the low dug across the south the moisture formed the perfect t shape configuration.