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Down to 41.7 at my place 

Hate I’m working down in Charlotte and missing the first event of the season, enjoy guys! 

5 hours ago, Buckethead said:

19 here and 12 at the bottom of the mountain.

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Makes me wonder if I’m just inversion prone at my spot kinda like you, especially sitting on a ridge dividing Crabtree and Sandy Mush valleys. I may have to move to the Plotts up around 6’k to consistently be as low as or lower than@Met1985 lol. 

18 according to my station.  I need to try setting it somewhere else and putting it at the official 6’-8’ instead of the 4’ it’s at, I’ve been skeptical of the readings sometimes. 

29 this morning with the first accumulation of the season, trace on porch, truck and leaves.

Slight chill to the air this morning on my walk into the woods, actually feels colder now than it was at daybreak.  One of my favorite views around the area looks interesting when it’s nothing but a silhouette.

Had a few bursts of all snow with big fat flakes, has me ready to start tracking the first storm of the year, whether it’s flow snow or (pretty please) a Miller A.  

No sleet or snow up on waterrock when I was there but had some sleet mixing in the drizzle when I got home just now for the first frozen precip of the season. A raw 35 degrees.

Edit: and now flakes mixing in 

2 hours ago, Buckethead said:

Down 3 degrees to 37 in the last hour. A few of us might get a few token flakes this afternoon.

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Headed up to Waterrock Knob as we speak, thinking I’ll see some mixing at the very least up there.

2 hours ago, Met1985 said:

20  cold degrees this morning.  An impressive cold start to November. 

Bit of an Inversion I’m guessing for me, 36 was coldest.  25 yesterday.

52 minutes ago, Met1985 said:

We still have power and we have a temp of 20 degrees so far this morning.  Even with the wind the temp nosedived overnight. 

What, I managed to beat you by a degree for once!?! Power back on and station update puts my place at 19.

1 hour ago, Buckethead said:

No flakes this morning, just really cold...sitting at 12.8 currently.

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Impressive! Got a notification power went out at my place 2 hours ago,  I’m guessing from the wind.  23.2 was the temp at the time so might have made it  to below 20 too.  I’m sure @Met1985 did as he’s always the cold spot on our end of Haywood.

Looking at the weather station data, 38.7 morning low and topped out at 44.2.  42.6 currently.

Been in the 40’s all day here in Houston if all places.  Enjoy those 20’s tomorrow fellas, hope y’all see some flakes.  I’m ready to get back home to the mountains Saturday!

Awesome pics Met!  Toasty for the time of year out here in Colorado, elk hunting in mid-October in a t-shirt above 10k feet with snow still on the ground in the shade reminded me of the days after our February and March snows lol. 

Found a few aspens still holding leaves, made for a nice little pop of color against the snow.

First taste of snow for me in t-minus 3-4 hours, winter weather advisory for 8-12” in the units my elk tag is for here in Colorado.  Seeing the eclipse while chasing elk with some snow in the ground Saturday is going to be wild. 

58 minutes ago, Tyler Penland said:

Just spent a couple days down around the Balsams and it was nice albeit more cloudy than I would have liked from a photographer point of view. Mid-40s this morning at sunrise.

Ready for the cold. I'll be out in Colorado/New Mexico late next week through early the next, just in time for the leaves to peak lol.

I always miss peak but love chasing elk around the Rockies in October more haha.  I’ll be out there just West of RMNP same time frame.

Felt amazing outside this afternoon, topped out at a hair under 62. Rolled back into Haywood at 6:30 am and promptly passed out once I got my camper in storage.  Time for the first fire this fall tonight! 

A crisp 44 this morning out here in western Kansas, ready for these temps back home with a fire going and leaves falling! Had to race a huge storm complex back to my truck the other evening, crazy lightning!  Here’s it approaching:

No mountain vistas but a wide open space for you guys from out here in western Kansas. At least it’s a dry heat and radiation cooling at night makes things nice til like 11 am.  Hoping the forecasted  70’s next week hold true!  And looking forward to returning to the start of fall colors, already had some change taking place when I returned from Cincy/left for here.

Fog over Canton this morning.  I’m sure @Met1985 knows this view well.

6 minutes ago, Met1985 said:

All kinds of storms blowing up.

Smoky  Park Hwy was flooded at every low spot when I drove through the middle of that cell earlier. Crazy amount of water, luckily a relatively quick hitter but reminded me of what I drove in during Fred.

A little salt always on my sliced tomatoes (used to eat them like an apple when I was little fresh out of the garden lol), cucumbers, watermelon, cantaloupe, etc.