WxKnurd

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.

Think there was a bit of an inversion going on last night when I was looking at temps after getting to my hotel. Noticed while it was 20 down in town it was 28 on Lynn Lowry. According to my stats, got down to 19 at 11 pm and then it was a slow steady rise from then on with 28 at daybreak. Showing 41 now. Like the trends on the models, might be able to make it home Tuesday to some snow still on the ground.

Looking at my weather station history the sun must have come out over my house after noon because the temp shot up from 26 to 34, back down to 30 now. Figure a snow shower moved in overhead. Thursday into Friday looks interesting, SW folks not up against the state line need that energy to dig a little bit more for more than dusting/inch.

Hate I couldn’t join but I figured work wouldn’t like me getting stuck or wrecking the truck if the worst happened lol. I drove up that way yesterday evening but turned around at Hurricane Gap, tried to get an idea of how far the drive from the new place is. Next storm I plan on doing some driving around and hiking as long as I’m home. A good old fashioned NWF event would suit me just fine, especially to compare my new place to the old one for those events. Neighbor was telling me last year they had a 36 hr duration one that dropped 12+. I think I know which one he was talking about but I also don’t remember those totals unless you got up on the state line and above 4k’. Of course he’s also on the next mountaintop over up around 4100’ so maybe his place did break the foot mark.

Make the trip up to Max Patch? Backside light snow/flurries were starting up when I headed out, at least will keep things looking frosted over.

Congrats guys, y’all cashed in with that band. Hope y’all can reel in the possible late week storm. Maybe I can hitch a Miller A with me on my way back from Oklahoma in a week.

Measurements vary on surface and even from spot to spot. Wind blowing the snow won’t help with accurate measurements anyway. 1-2” on gravel road, 3.5-4” on my one flat, grass spot that doesn’t have any limbs over it, 2-3” on the deck, 3.25” on the truck bed cover. If I had to guess, I would figure doing an official measurement every hour on a snowboard would have probably resulted in maybe close to 4”. Light snow as the last bit swings through. Overall forecast on switchover was correct for my place, I’m guessing precipitation amounts AFTER changeover ended up busting low down this way. Taking a wild guess, that along with overall rates being lower than modeled was the limiting factor here in Haywood (and points SW) outside of right along the state line .

Yea that good band setup too far to the north, wouldn’t be surprised to see that the ULL traversed a touch more north than modeled. Thought for sure you’d end up with 6” up there.

Time to take a jebwalk and take some measurements. A balmy 25 degrees out there.

When these gusts hit it’s a bit crazy, strongest yet. I think I can hit 6” here if I can get some of those heavier returns to rotate in from TN, I bet my ol’ bugaboo of dendrite size struck again from what I’ve seen since 4 am. Hard to pile up above 6” with lackluster flakeage for lack of a better term. One of these days I’ll get some quarter-sized flakes.

Killing it up there like I figured you would, think I’m closing in on 4 here just eyeballing it.

Just a bit off on my estimation, an easy inch on the deck. Everything is caked. Hard to tell what flake size is with all the blowing snow but mostly look like maybe some dime size at best currently.

Looks like a half inch on the front deck railing, hard to tell with no light currently out there. Can tell the ground is covered at the back of the house looking out the kitchen window. All uphill from here now.

34.5 when I woke up at 4, 30.9 now. Temps continue to crash.