Maggie Valley Steve

Day 12 with snow on the ground. I've finally managed to get the driveway cleared ahead of the weekend storm.

If we get the moisture, those very cold temperatures could easily produce 15 to 1 ratios.

Day 11 with snow on the ground here and even at the Valley floor with North facing areas. I see that NWS Houston is mentioning snow for Monday, with even the Coastal Counties seeing a wintry mix. One of my longtime Met friends, Chris Hebert comparing the potential similar to the Christmas Eve snow storm of 2004. I'm also intrigued with Friday into Saturday for the Mountains. Hopefully by Friday we'll have an idea what early next week will bring!

It looks like the meso models ticked up regarding moisture for our upslope tonight into Wednesday. It was 19 this morning, but has warned up to 40 so far. Driveway is melting off and I'll have it cleared by sun set.

Fantastic pictures guys! Thanks for sharing!

Warmed up to 40 for about 15 minutes today. No melting of the snow on my yard and likely won't anytime soon. Driveway is still covered, but drivable.

14 this morning. I've got to tackle the driveway today before it becomes a solid sheet of ice. High temperature today and tomorrow is supposed to reach 40. We'll see about that.

Looks like we have an opportunity for some upslope snow Tuesady night/Wednesday morning behind another shot of Arctic air.

Always great to have you around Don. I'm very optimistic with the pattern we're in up to the last week of January. A lot of potential!

Just got back from the Pkwy at Soco Gap. Still snowing with a little over 14 inches up there.

It's been dropping wintry precipitation for 24 hours now at the house and still lightly snowing. I am overall pleased with the storm and so glad the snow drought ended for many!

Morning pictures.

Measured 3 inches on the back deck, but I know a lot melted, compacted and a layer of sleet. The driveway is a sheet of ice. Cataloochee is reporting 7 inches at 6:45 this morning. Soco Rd is open in town.

I know they closed it from the Pkwy thru the reservation this morning at 8. Our intention was to turn around at the Pkwy, but unfortunately folks from out of town obviously thought they could make with 2 wheel drive...lol

I know I busted on my call. Wx Knurd has a point though. We tried to get up to Soco Gap this afternoon, but unfortunately there were too many 2 wheel drive folks up ahead of us spinning all over the road, so we turned back. I bet the totals up there are respectable. It will be interesting to see what Cataloochee ends with tomorrow morning. I strongly believe we are not done yet. Next week is looking intriguing and even beyond. The CPC is honking on the cold with moisture continuing for the next couple of weeks. I guess we'll see!

Back to mostly moderate to at times heavy snow mixed with some sleet. The wind is very brisk out there now.

Yeah, as soon as the wind started howling down the Valley, sleet let up. The driveway caved badly even with salt down.

Back to all snow after a heavy sleet shower. Winds are picking up and the temperature has dropped back to 30°.

New Mesoscale Discussion....

Just got in from riding all over Maggie Valley, up toward Soco Gap and Cataloochee. Met1985 and I got to experience everything the past couple of hours to rain/snow, sleet/snow and now huge flakes near silver dollars. Back at the house and I have heavy snow with less than a quarter mile visibility!

Temperature here is up to 34. Just very tiny flakes, but radar indicates we'll fill back in shortly.

I got salt down on the driveway 45 minutes ago. Now moderate nickels and quarters falling. Visibility down less than a mile.

Ceiling has lowered significantly, light to moderate snow at Cataloochee. Flurries just began at the house.

Up to 27 now. Definitely virga overhead and the ceiling is lowering. It appears that light snow is beginning to fall at higher elevations of the Balsams. It shouldn't be long here before light snow begins.

Reports than snow has started at DT Chattanooga.