Maggie Valley Steve

Already raining at the house this morning.

I missed out today, but the moisture is here!

GSP issued a Special Weather Statement for the storm near Enka a few minutes ago. It's been a while!

Unfortunately we experienced investors swoop in during COVID and establish near 500 new properties for short term rentals. It killed the year round local hosts and certainly Helene didn't help. That said we're getting booking frequently now, perhaps we've turned a corner.

Nice to see a few afternoon pulse thunderstorms firing along the Mountains. That bodes well for the rest of the week into the weekend!

This is a different animal altogether. This TUTT low has traversed the Atlantic along with the Saharan Dust currently moving into the far Eastern Caribbean.

Keep an eye on the TUTT low generally heading W from the NE of the Bahamas. That feature could assist with some much needed rainfall across portions of the SE.

It looks like a significant pattern change is coming this week with a stalling boundary that will extend back into Texas. Rounds of rain will move across the Mountains later this week and possibly into the weekend. I'm seeing a pesky trough building in and lowering pressure across the Gulf as a monsoonal trough begins to organize in the Western Caribbean. Our sensible weather suggests that we begin to see an El Nino pattern slowly become established and rain chances increase all across the SE Region. Keep an eye on an early tropical system slowly organizing somewhere in the Gulf at the end of May or early June.

37 at the house this morning.

39 this morning in the Valley.

Front porch weather on this Mother's Day afternoon!

Of course you are! Nice NW breeze and dryer air as arrived. I ended up with 1.2 inches of rain.

I've got over an inch in the rain gauge and still coming down lightly.

Light to moderate rain has filled back. Radar upstream looks promising for continued rain throughout the evening. The longer range guidance continues to advertise a general trough continuing across WNC into at least mid May. That suggests rain chance will continue with fronts arriving every several days!

We've had breaks in the clouds this afternoon and humidity and temperatures have risen by 15 degrees.

Rolling thunder and heavy rain ongoing the past half hour.

Light rain is falling over the Valley this morning. That radar looks very encouraging and I am hoping for an inch or two today and tonight!

Frost Advisory and Freeze Warning issued for the Mountains.

Clouds have rolled in now, but what a beautiful morning and mid day we've had. I had a low of 41 this morning. We'll see if we make a run at the mid 30's Sunday morning!

Yeah and a slight chance at some wet snow at the highest elevations Saturday night.

What a glorious morning! Lots of lightening and thunder and a round of heavy rain around 5 o'clock this morning. Certainly the rain over performed and it was surely needed!

We've had a nice week with cool mornings and warm Spring days. It's looking that a pattern change is ahead with rain chances returning tomorrow continuing into next week.

I got enough rain to wash down the pollen! 53 this morning.

Frost Advisory hoisted for tonight/tomorrow morning.

I ended up with an inch of rain and I am very thankful! The pollen has been washed down and cooler air is filtering in. I could make a run at freezing in the morning. We'll see about that.