Maggie Valley Steve

Flakes are a good mix of quarter, nickel and dimes and coming down nicely now. Congrats to the Asheville area crew and everyone else getting in on the action!

Moderate snow and the ground is covered again.

Light snow in Maggie now.

36 and freezing rain. Decks are iced (I almost busted my backside).

39 and rain and sleet now.

40 and waiting on the light rain.

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Waking up to a solid 1/2" of unexpected snow. 8 for my low.

We have pixie dust in Maggie and balmy 25 now.

My temperature last night at 11 PM was 35. Woke up to 40 at 6:30 and the snow has melted in my yard and driveway. Cataloochee measured 10 inches yesterday and last night and is now 100% open.

We are going to have concrete tomorrow night into Wednesday morning. My forecast low for Wednesday morning is 1. Looking like we will have snow on the ground throughout the upcoming weekend with more snow possible Thursday night into Friday.

Looks like Soco Rd/US 19 is closed going to Cherokee. Apparently there are many cars off the road in Jackson County side of the Gap and people are abandoning there cars. That word came from Cherokee Police.

Took another drive up Soco Rd and conditions start deteriorating right at Fie Top rd going up to Cataloochee. The plows are working from Maggie up to the gap, so it's still open for now.

They had 4 plows working the gap from both sides of the counties this morning. Drove back up to the tower and the roads were crazy slick with easily a couple of inches covering Soco Rd.

Hang in there. It took a while, but once it flips it seems rates ramp up quickly. Starting to accumulate now on the roads and grassy surfaces. Further up Soco Rd, the trees are plastered with the gusty winds.

All snow in Maggie now.

Starting get heavier rates above 3500 and it's dragging down colder air into the Valley. More mangled melting flakes than rain now. 36 at the house and winds are whipping up again.

Rain and snow mixed in Maggie now. Drove up to Soco Gap and it's snowing light to moderate with a temperature of 32. Maybe a couple of inches at best.

Heavy snow up at Cataloochee via Webcam.

38 and light rain all night in the Valley.

Snowing at Cataloochee now.

mPing lighting up with frozen precipitation near the border. Looking like things are a bit ahead of schedule by an hour or two.

A lot of reports of snow around Huntsville via mPing now.

Down to 38 and the clouds are rolling in with the wind still gusting to 30 at times. Driveway is salted. Time to relax and watch Hunter on Facebook/YouTube and have some adult beverages!

mPing reports of frozen precipitation near Huntsville now.