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39 and a cold rain at 3800’ in Haywood

21 this morning, crisp perfect morning with the .25-.5” of snow I got yesterday still coating everything.  Might drive up to Max Patch later to see how they did.  Hopefully can get another light coating tomorrow night, I’ll penny (can’t even calm that amount a nickel) my way to double digits this thus-far anemic season if I have to! 

27 with a heavy dusting of a .25 inch.  Wasn’t home overnight and just got back so could have had a tinge more but no clue.  Flizzard has stopped for now.

8 minutes ago, Met1985 said:

Dang man crazy how the inversion just carried tight through the day. 

No doubt!

2 minutes ago, Met1985 said:

Big fail in temps today. Current temp is 38 and our high was only 40 today. 

Hit 52 around noon then it clouded up, down to 45.  Lot of melt today.

Highly suggest the mountain and foothills crew checkout the pattern thread in the TN Valley forum if you aren’t already, Carver does great write-ups.  Outside of Larry (GAwx) on our side, their pattern discussion blows our forum’s away right now. Lot more info discussed regardless of good or bad pattern, lot less whining.

10 minutes ago, Met1985 said:

I know that short of a distance and that big of a temp spread is ridiculous.  We had a heavy frost also. Almost looked like it snowed on the truck.... These microclimates can get crazy around here. I think what helps me is that we are in a bowl but the valley is directly in front of me. I think that helps to filter the cold in and out for us. We don't get trapped with the inversion in my opinion.  But all that could just be BS lol.

It makes sense in my head lol.  A year in and I’m still learning the nuances of my new location. 

21 minutes ago, Met1985 said:

Beautiful! Had a low of 19 this morning...

Good Lord, at 7 am it was 38.7 over here.  I know you are in a bowl but either the inversion setup crazy fast in our 300’ elevation difference or one didn’t setup over on your ridge.   Saw 24 down in the valley last night while my weather station was reading 34 (thinking it could have been reading a few degrees to warm as the snow was stiffened up and melt water was frozen and my usually accurate truck thermometer was reading 28).

42 minutes ago, Met1985 said:

Yeah a complete miss on temps today. Much colder than forecasted. Very little melting at all today. 

I was in the 40’s but I’m WSW facing 

49 minutes ago, Buckethead said:

My low was at midnight. I was at 13.8 then and climbed to 24 by sunrise.

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Yea, looking at my history it shows a low of 13.8 for me as well at 1:45 am, 8 am I was at 21.2. A balmy 38.7 now.

13 was the low for this morning.  Gonna be a gorgeous Sunday! 

5 minutes ago, Buckethead said:

It took me a minute to realize there's four does in the picture.

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Good capture, don’t often catch them with their head down and eyes closed.

6” is what I’m going with after some more measurements in some protected places, some good drifts.  Light snow off and on currently.  

13 minutes ago, Met1985 said:

We are a bit off from you I think because of one of the bands that just set in overnight.  We are getting hammered now with heavy snowfall.  It might help im in a bowl also with this NW flow.  Might pick up another inch if this continues. 

Yea I figured last night the ridge from Chambers Mtn over to the Glades was probably getting it good based on how it was snowing between Lake Junaluska and Crabtre and then it was hardly snowing here.  Friends on Chambers have over 6”.  Good first event of the year! 

18 degrees and 5-6” measured on the deck.  Got a board down by the garage that’s protected from the wind that I’ll get a measurement on later. 

Just got home from Waynesville, little adventure back but not too bad.  1-2” in town, roads were covered in shaded spots and over bridges there but slushy and mainly wet otherwise.  74 was just wet.  Maybe around 2” Iron Duff and Crabtree, closer to 3 as you got out towards the base of my mountain.  209 was covered but not completely, paved road out to my place was completely snow covered however. Measured 4.5” on my deck.  Actually had tapered off to just light snow at my place, heaviest was Crabtree/Iron Duff area of 209. Would love to squeeze out another 1.5” between now and when the flow shuts off but not sure I will, have to see what morning brings.

12 minutes ago, Sw NC weather said:

Right at 4” now should make a run for 6-8”.

You are piling it up down there! Makes me wonder what I’m gonna be coming home to.   Where are we at @Met1985

Came back from Sylva and coming down 74 from Balsam to exit 98 was sketch and snow covered.  Gonna be interesting going back to Crabtree and up the the mountain later!

9 minutes ago, Buckethead said:

I know the feeling. Last year I had to replace the vacuum pump and brake booster in my truck after dislocating my knee during the big storm on 1/13.

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What’s sad is my work truck has a dead battery and I kept forgetting to take my keys so I could swing by my camper and get my battery charger out of the locked storage on it.  What I get for procrastinating, I would at least have one vehicle to drive.

Down to 26.4, over 2” now but no clue how much.  Off and on for me in regards to the heavy stuff making the whiteouts Met said above.  Fun hobbling around on crutches in that while trying to figure out mechanical issues lol. 

Been trying to figure out why my truck won’t crank and now snow is picking up in intensity, picked up a 1/2” just like that.

Back to pixie dust, thought we were gonna switch to bigger flakes but no dice.  1.25”, headed out for the remainder of the day so next measurement won’t be until late tonight. 

Getting some better flake size now, hovering around 28-29 degrees.

10 minutes ago, Met1985 said:

Cannot stress enough of how much of a classic NW upslope event this will be. 

Wind orientation is perfect, Lakes aren’t frozen over, etc.  Gonna be a “fun” drive home to and from Waynesville this afternoon/tonight!

4 minutes ago, Met1985 said:

We are socked in

 Probably going to stay that way for 24 hours or so.

Was looking at some webcams and the sun was peeking out in downtown Waynesville and Canton, meanwhile 7-10 miles north and 1200’ higher in elevation and we are socked in like you said.