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4-5” for my house  from different measurements  my wife took. Closing in on 20” for the season.

Gonna at least be a morning of hanging around the hotel, if not all day.  Looking out my window, appears to be 2-3” here in Beckley. Wife sent a picture of our deck and I think it’s an easy 4”, she’s gonna measure and see shortly.

Keeps up the obs guys, living vicariously through y’all until that backside to my west rolls through up here in WV.

3 minutes ago, franklin NCwx said:

Was that about 2 or 3 years ago? 

 

Rates and flake size have finally picked up!

Yea we moved in Feb 2019 so that was the Dec 2018 storm, will be 2 years next weekend.

4 minutes ago, Met1985 said:

Yeah I agree. The good thing is that we still have plenty of time for that.  This winter for me has been 10 times better than the past several. 

No doubt, I know the winter we moved up they had the big December storm (I think the neighbors said 16" for us)and then we had one or two minor events after we moved in come February but that was it.  Last year was blah, still better than any winter in Charlotte but only 10-12" for the season.  We were at 14" before this storm, felt like winter all season, got to hunt in the snow a couple times, some decent cold snaps, etc.  Gonna be a wild ride from here to the end of April! 

1 minute ago, Met1985 said:

I'd say that is pretty accurate with what I have here. Yall get it before we do because of the moisture coming in from the south.

Yep, this is one of those setups I've been waiting on, I think 4" is a good call as long as the raggedness stays away.  Still waiting on a nice, big organized low to crawl up from the Gulf.  Preferably when I'm at home lol.

My wife says it looks like a good inch and half accumulation at our house and coming down good.  Take that for what it's worth, I've found her visual estimations in regards to snow to be all over the place 

Starting to lay at my house, wife reports “big ol flakes now”.

1 minute ago, SnoJoe said:

My scale is a little on the high side!

 

You'll die if this thing gets super amped and drops a foot!

 

You've been so close this year. You'll get yours when that monster Kraken rolls through in a couple of weeks.

Ha, I won't be home to enjoy.  Up in Bluefield and a foot up here does me no good except keeping me in the hotel 

That scale pretty much matches up with mine Joe lol. I'm hoping for a decent event for my area, be good to get some pics from my wife of the dogs playing in the snow.

6 minutes ago, franklin NCwx said:

Highlands through Glenville up into little Canada around 281.

That’s some gorgeous country

8 minutes ago, Local Yokel Wx said:

As with most events we talk a lot about populated areas (because its where we live) but who wants to throw down where you think the highest totals will be (factor in backend NW flow snow)? 

I'm liking the southern end of the Great Balsams but also could see Mt LeConte push past everyone with their last minute light accumulations Sunday morning. 

I gonna be biased and go with Lynn Lowry; better spot for the main event than LeConte and then can still get some flow snow on the backside better than the peaks from Richland Balsam over to Mt Pisgah which I think will jackpot from the main event.  I like the area around my house for a jackpot for a “populated area”.

Don’t worry, I’m not there so 6” is a lock for us SW Mtn folks lol.  4” is our best total in the two years I’ve been in Balsam Gap. Hoping next weekend holds and I can experience a big storm. Looking like 2-4” up here where I am working near Bluefield.

The sunset up there, it’s something everyone should experience just once.  Watching the orange orb just slowly disappear beyond the horizon and then, top 10 memorable moment for me. Those are some great pics, I’m jealous!

Just now, jburns said:

Can you get it to light at all?  In other words, can you get it to light while your pushing the pilot knob in but it goes out when you let it go?  If it does that get some steel wool and clean the tip of the thermocouple.  Thats the thing that looks like the end of a knitting needle pointing straight up that is in the pilot flame when it is lit.  It eventually gets coated with enough carbon that it insulates the thermocouple and it doesn’t get hot enough to open the gas valve.  I have to clean mine every couple of years.

I could only get a spark out of the igniter occasionally when I had all the logs off trying to diagnose what was going on.  I did clean the thermocouple off a little because I know about the carbon build up (had to deal with that on a part in my furnace in my house in CLT) but didn’t have any steel wool to do so and was unable. Rush anyway, I can’t even remember what I used.  I did get it to about light after that but I just saw a flash of blue flame and then it went out, then no more spark.  So you saying that reminds me what I had meant to do last week while off work, clean that off better 

Thanks for the air compressor tip, I’ll try that when I get home.  It’s a pain to deal with due to having to take a big glass piece off to get to the logs and thus mess with the igniter and I was so frustrated the other week because it was making me late from heading out of town for work.  I started to use a lighter to light the pilot while I was in there that day but honestly messing with gas always leaves me a little nervous.  Same with electricity.  Guess the safety part of my engineering design class back in college is seared in my head, some of the pics from not taking proper precautions...

22 minutes ago, Buckethead said:

You probably haven't purged all of the air out of the line. I have to do that before I can get the pilot lit on my logs.

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I actually think it’s my pilot igniter assembly. I’ve purged per directions and can hear/smell gas while trying to light it and will occasionally get a spark but it’s not consistent in doing so.  Just need to bite the bullet and have them come service them as it does give us back up heat if we lose power or the heat pump stops working like the other week (dang fuse I didn’t even know existed on the handler unit popped).

3 minutes ago, Buckethead said:

Believe it or not they delivered Monday! First time that I've seen them use snow chains.

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That’s good. We have gas logs (that I can’t get to light) and had never planned on getting our tank filled when we moved in two years ago but Blossman did it anyway even though we told them not.  So I have had a full 200 gallon tank ever since. Plan is to add a gas line to the kitchen and upgrade to a gas stove when we get a new one, love cooking on a gas stove. 

21 minutes ago, Buckethead said:

You ain't kidding. From temp has steadily risen from 19.9° at 10pm to 40.4° at 10am. 20° overnight.

This Sunday sure looks interesting. I was hoping for some sunshine to melt some of this today, but it doesn't look like that's happening.

 

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You are gonna be waiting on propane til Mid-March at this rate 

I noticed it was a strong inversion, if you were around or below 3k it was upper teens and if you were above that it was 30’s.  32-33 at the weather station closest to my house and same elevation (3300’-ish) and 18 down in Hazelwood around 2900’. Y’all reel in the weekend storm, my dogs will be happy even though I’ll miss out on it.

The highlands are an awesome place.  Was up there mid-June one year and it barely got to 40 overnight.  Had ponies running on the AT by my camp and woke up to a doe and dawn behind my tents. Great pic!

5 minutes ago, Moonhowl said:

Yes and I am still suffering from PTSD from that cold "spring" wind continuing until mid-May last year.

Made for a brutal opening morning of Turkey season, brrrr.

22 minutes ago, SnoJoe said:

I still say we're going to pull off a big storm for all sometime this month. This is a different winter this year so I expect a different ending to it.

I agree and I know us SW mountain folk are craving something more than a few inches.  Otherwise I’m moving to some Wyoming foothills or mountains sooner rather than later  

What was your total @Met1985? 

Jealous of you guys in the favored NWFS areas, from Weaverville to Erwin, TN you could tell drifts were deep and it was a solid event.  2-4” up here in Southern WV, maybe 4-6” north of Tazwell, VA on my way to where I’m working.