Maggie Valley Steve

I'll take a late November/early December-EPO/+PNA regime now showing up on the ensembles any day. I expect some crazy swings in the deterministic guidance the next 7 to 10 days. Patience grasshoppers.

17 and near 3.5 inches measured. The wind howled here during the night, so the driveway is blown almost clean except for a sheet of ice.

Nearing 4 inches at the house and still snowing. Down to 18.

Tomorrow morning pictures should be awesome! Take care Don!

Heavy snow now. We're finally getting the benefit of that potent vort max. Temperature down to 19.

It's pour snow at 21 degrees. I've picked up an inch in the last 20 minutes.

Cataloochee Ski Area will officially open for the season this Wednesday! Tube World has the snow guns blowing and the hill is covered now!

23 with light to moderate snow at times. It's starting to lay on the grass and roads now.

Visible imagery suggests gravity waves are developing just ahead of the potent vort max. I'm starting to see some rising cumulus suggesting the possibility of thundersnow just E of the Knoxville Region.

Snow showers have spilled over mountains into the Valley now.

Looking upstream there a bubbly cumulus building ahead of the potent vort max that is diving SSE. It appears to be digging enough to put the SW Mountains in play this afternoon and evening for moderate to heavy snow. Clouds are beginning to build back in around the Valley and snow flurries have increased a bit. In a couple of hours we should begin to see more widespread reports coming in.

Just rode up to Cataloochee. 18 and light snow currently. The top of Fie Top Rd was icy, but the salt trucks were laying salt down. Looked like a couple of inches above 5K. Back down in the Valley it's 27 with occasional flurries.

Light snow and a dusting with 27 at the house. GSP says the potent vort max will bring heavier snow this afternoon and evening than previously expected.

Flurries are flying at Cataloochee now. 30F currently.

32 at Cataloochee. Good to see reports coming in from our neighbors in Eastern Tennessee! It won't be long now.