WxKnurd

I’m up on the mountains above where Upper Crabtree/Liner Creek Rd pavement ends, facing WSW right below the ridge line that is the county line. You’ll have to learn me on the mountain names on this side of the county outside of the main ones, but the view from my front porch is a bald/pasture land mountain top so I’m guessing that’s Big Bald.

Crazy how your protected hollar helps with temps. Only got down to 28 at my place. Getting the majority of my stuff moved in today finally, hope to send the family back down to Hickory before things kickoff tonight barring an earlier than expected arrival that seems to tend to happen.

33 in NE Haywood.

Micro-climates are always fun. My old place on Balsam should do great with this setup. Should be a good county wide hit like you said.

Me either, short range models have burned me too much with showing increasing totals in the past to make me put much faith in them regardless of what they say (though I believe the HRRR is what first noted what happened with the 1/3 event so there is that). And if I get a 1/4” of ice as their map shows that little red dallop over me, I’ll eat my hat. I’m still learning the local climo around Haywood but to me if I torch at mid levels then there is no way the higher peaks 1-2k feet above me in elevation are gonna stay all snow either.

I really like my tempest after about 20 days of having it up. I do need to raise it tto tge 6-8’ range they suggest to get better wind readings however.

34 with flurries here

Met beat me to the punch, I’ll take my 16-20” and head to the cashier.

Had a quick graupel shower earlier when I got home. Clouds thickening and building back to the west now. Hoping to squeeze out at inch tonight down here if lucky.

That was my senior year if it’s the storm I’m thinking of. We got out at 11 and my parents house is closer to Hickory north and west up near the lake than where the high school is, so I left school with it just starting to snow and got home to a couple inches already on the ground. Ended up around 9” too I think and the bottom dropped out that night to single digits and it was a frozen solid mess. ‘93 is the gold standard in totality but ‘88 (from stories I’ve heard, too young to remember) ‘96 and that storm my senior year rank up there for Hickory. Another sleeper for total inches was a storm in February while I was in college, I’m thinking ‘04. Came home from Raleigh just to enjoy the aftermath. That was a foot plus but didn’t hang around long, temps shot up.

What’s the all-timer for populated portions of Haywood? I’m thinking it has to be March ‘30 (I think) I was reading about recently. 30”+ Fines Creek and Crabtree if I remember correctly.

I’m swinging by the store when I get back after lunch, need to grab tire chains (that I was gonna get way back in October before my Wyoming trip, where I desperately needed them) so I can get up and down the mountain once I’m off the pavement and then run the generator between now and Saturday night along with some possible dead limb and tree cleanup to save myself a possible headache. All that with moving some stuff on Saturday morning and early afternoon sandwiched in between. But I wouldn’t have it any other way

Yea, based on everything up to this point it’s a gamble of stay home for an all-timer in Hickory if all snow (top 5-10 even if it mixes) or go to Black Mountain for top 5 event there with an outside chance at an all timer. Can’t go wrong either way IMO.

There’s not enough lithium in the world to calm the nerves of the main board RDU weenies. I lean climatology at all times so I’ve been digging the trend for what all our pieces of energy do.

I can’t even remember the last watch they’ve issued, don’t think I’ve seen one in the 3 winters I’ve lived up here.

Those 6k foot peaks running the border of southern Haywood are gonna get rocked too. Would love to be on Richland or Black Balsam during the storm.

Franklin to Toxaway corridor is gonna jackpot with the favorded area in the border counties having to play catch-up with backside NWFS to get close to their totals IMO

I think you a guys around the 64 corridor (Clay to Transylvania counties) are sitting pretty for a 6+ snowfall no matter how this plays out.

Toss it. Me, Met and Maggie Ace only get 16+

I’ll take the 1-2” my house gets and run with it

Had a low just below 16 this morning. Liking the look of actual winter in the mountains ahead of us.

She’s a beaut Clark! Take it to the bank, I’m trying to move some more stuff this weekend so prepare for some type of weather.

Got down to 18 at 7:00 then rose from there, 31 now.

Hey @Met1985, dusting to an inch in our area of Haywood? Looks like my place saw it drop down to just below 15 last night.

My Weather station shows it’s dropped from 43 to 34 in a little under an hour and a half, still dropping too. Had some flurries out here in Tulsa this morning, cold and blustery day. Hope you guys back home see a couple inches at the least.