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I know, shows you how bad a winter it has been to this point.

That’s just depressing

Back in Haywood County picking up dinnsr, can see clouds pushed up against the Balsams and Smokies squeezing out all the moisture they can (wife said it still feels like the house is in a snow globe). Feel good about my chances of pulling into 3”+ and breaking the 6” mark for the season. Only about 15-20” to go to hit what I’m estimating the average for our area is, doubt we get there but I’m sure I’ll be trout fishing and turkey hunting in the cold all during April. ETA: Looks like 2” (maybe 2.5” if there was compaction/sublimation between when it stopped accumulating and now when I measured) seems to be what we got, thought for sure we’d be at 3” from the pics I got earlier from my wife with it still snowing and already having what looked to be 2”. Oh well, make it 5-5.5” for the season.

We had more than 2” when I last got an update from the wife a couple hours ago. See how much I measure when I get home in 2 hours, hopefully there’s still some of that appeal left

Wife said it just started at our place on the Haywood/Jackson line. I’m in southern Ohio and we have a batch of moisture coming through just like down there and 1-2-3” on the ground from yesterday morning. Will be a day of driving through snow for me it seems.

Let me make it home tomorrow night with 3 inches on the ground and I’ll be happy. Break the 6” finally mark for the season to date

Unless you have a time you have to be in Maggie, take 64 east from Franklin over to 276 in Brevard then 276 north up and over the Balsams to Waynesville and then to Maggie

Yea, my wife said it was snowing good when she left our house earlier. Of course I’m in Ohio working, was gonna head home for the weekend if the big runs last week had held serve but oh well, hopefully we can eek out an inch or two, need 3” to break the 6” mark for the year and don’t see that happening lol. Surprisingly where I’m at in southern Ohio was supposed to be all rain but it’s started out as a sleet/snow mix.

You got options. North of 40 you can drive up to Max Patch (it’ll take a while on the first service roads) and get above 4500’ or if you want a bit of a hike and to get above 5800’ you can access Mount Sterling on the east side of the National Park. You’ll have to get there from the Waterville area though, the other roads on that side of the park (Cataloochee area) are closed for construction. It’s about a 3 mile hike from the trailhead at Mount Sterling Gap.

Enjoy your trip to Haywood County! Grab breakfast at Joey’s Pancake House there in Maggie, make the short drive over to the western side of Clyde and eat at the Blue Rooster cafe and then if you like beer you have Boojum Brewery in downtown Waynesville and swing by the Blue Ridge Beer Hub just down the street from there to check out their selection of brews from all over (my craft beer go to) to take home with you. Hopefully the weather cooperates!

Yea we have a unique climate for sure! That’s why I love our area.

So if we have NWS or CoCoRaHS stations with missing data how is it even possible to have a verified annual precipitation total for a given location? We can all sit here and say “well I got 6” in this storm and 8” in that one” til we are blue in the face but unless you are keeping accurate records of every event for all precipitation types then it’s all just a best, educated guess anyway. Sorry, it’s the engineer in me lol.

Ah gotcha! I remember it floating around so I went and found it. It was from ‘88 to 18’ wasn’t it?

This is the 20 year average, hard to really tell in the non-valley areas. I’m around 20” a year it looks like. Wish you could see individual counties or have a map that you could zoom in on a location and the resolution would be better.

Got another dusting here at Balsam Gap, lightest of the week.

West Waynesville/Hazelwood proper looks to have an inch or so, makes for pretty winter day. I’m ready for a warning-criteria snow though.

Another dusting overnight. If Buckethead and Joe are nickel and dimeing, I’m pennying my way through winter minus one 2.5” snowfall.

Parkway is open for the time being, turned the corner at Woodfin Cascades overlook and hit more than a dusting. 4000’ but the northerly facing component is the main difference.

Yea I’m jealous of your location in the county for flow-driven events. I want to see what happens at mine when we get a miller A tracking storm, it seems like it would set up well for that especially when looking at annual precipitation maps and seeing a maxima running along the county line. My anecdotal observations make it seem like the moisture gets ringed out here on anything other than flow snow lol.

Yep, flurries at my house and can see the snow showers developing just to our East as the mountains don’t block the flow as good. Above 4000’, the mountain top is snow covered. Dusting at our house at 3350’ on our side of the county line and nothing hardly on the Jackson county side. No accumulation below 3000’ here either. Mid-teens at 10 am.

Got a surprise dusting here

Yep, models pumping out single digit temps and below zero windchill temps here in the Balsams. Shock to the system, I was in Ohio working in spring-like temps all last week. Good for Winter to decide and make an appearance finally.

Hasn’t been “abnormally dry” there since the Dec 10 update. From Dec 17 on only NE NC had been abnormally dry in the Carolinas and that finally went away with the last update.

Measured 2” on elevated surfaces such as my fence and deck, 1” on the walkway in the front with light snow still falling. Not much but the most we’ve had while I’ve been home since moving here in mid-Feb last year and the first to event to top the 1/2” mark, let alone the 1” mark this season.

Don’t worry, I’m sure we’ll get a Miller A that crushes us while I’m working the 2 week on portion of my 2 on/1 off schedule on this upcoming Ohio project lol