WxKnurd

Shoot, I’ll be returning to Montana with highs In the 60’s. Y’all are sitting pretty for more winter whereas the the western half of the country is wondering where it is and dreading a cold and snowy Spring/early Summer.

Pleasure. 2nd full day here, 1st day skiing. Here til the 4th. Not used to this powder lol.

Meanwhile in Hakuba, Japan. And still dumping.

He’s always colder than my property and my house isn’t that far as the crow flies ha!

If this comes to fruition the majority of the Carolinas will have more snow on the season than most of the intermountain West towns and cities outside of the highest elevations. GSP and Charlotte having more than Denver, Bozeman, etc. is wild. I think here in Billings we are sitting around 25” (thanks To that one 12” storm and a 7” one) which is more than Denver, I think Bozeman too but not sure.

Excited for the mountain and foothill crew!

Hope yall get crushed! Definitely are due. Classic overrunning event it looks like.

Good luck gentlemen! Headed to Japan next week, hope I’m talking about feet of snow while I’m skiing out there. Maybe I’ll remember to take pics for once ha!

Meanwhile driving back from Yellowstone tonight it was 60-degrees at 9:30 pm. At least another week of above temps and I’ve got new skis waiting to be broken in.

Had a dusting starting around the French Broad on 26 when I drove up to Asheville earlier from down in SC. Colder here again than back in MT currently. Ski resorts are taking a beating across most of the west so far.

Snow has stopped, may move back south tonight into the morning but it will be light and forecast to be less than an inch. More shoveling on my lunch break, measured 10” in a more sheltered place (lower rot ground and blocked by the planter) and 11” on the picnic table, going with 11” for my unofficial measurement. For clarification, this is in Billings and not our beautiful NC mountains. Miss my NC brethren!

Measured 9” before I started shoveling (gonna have to get used to that, I ever buy a house and am not renting I’ll have a snow blower, at least it was a good workout ha!). Double digits is a given, but do we squeak out enough to hit a foot. Another overperformer, forecast was 5-10” for the warning area and 8” point and click forecast here in downtown where I am.

Obligatory “looking out the window to gauge accumulation” picture, first one while in Montana. Still snowing, supposed to taper off by noon. Will my first official storm here (was back east for the Thanksgiving one) give me the foot-plus I’ve been chasing for like a decade? Still coming down good currently.

You guys are having a great start to the season, guess I had to up and move to make it happen haha! Second storm of the season here in Billings starts tonight, overrunning situation calling for 5-10” and temps in the teens after the front comes through this afternoon. Warms back up again early next week (a repeat of this past weekend and this week, albeit colder and more snow this weekend instead of a light snow like last Friday and Saturday.) W and NW slopes down in the Beartooths have 1-2 feet this weekend if not more.

About to head back to Montana and we finally had our first snow in Billings, overperformer and ended up with 8” or so when they were calling for 4-5”. Been nice to have some cold these past few days here in the foothills at my parents, prepping me for heading back to the first cold snap of the year out there!