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Still rain on Beech

Got a dusting here in Dahlonega GA. Lol,

1 hour ago, LithiaWx said:

I’ve had lots of luck at Woody Gap.  Seems to be perfect for that sweet spot of ease of access and elevation.  Plus they treat the roads.  Thank you for the tip about the access road to brasstown getting shut down. 

HRRR says flip to snow there near 5p today. 

3 minutes ago, LithiaWx said:

Snow chase #2 for this season is here!!  I’m debating targeting Brasstown Bald at 4700’ or Woody Gap at 3200’.   My initial thoughts are the 1500’ won’t make a big difference and to stick with familiar chase territory at Woody Gap.  

Woody Gap.  Brass town will close the entrance road which means hike to the top it thats what your after.  Woody typically does well in these situations.  Or hwy 136 near Big Canoe.  Also goes over 3k up

5 hours ago, mclean02 said:

Thank you all for the advice booked a room in Blowing Rock can't wait for the snow  

We love the six pence pub there.   For snow excursion go to beech mtn.  Best spot up there in my opinion.  

I'm living this one out in Dahlonega GA at the southern end of the Apps.  Enjoy it NC people. Couldn't convince the whole family to do Christmas up there. 

Got a nice surprise of 1/4" inch fresh snow overnight.  LOL.  Just enough to coat everything.  Let there be another dusting tonight.

BTW...brand new 12z GFS basically doubled the amounts for the highcountry.  The upper level energy hasn't made it to shore yet but it will be over US land tomorrow morning so I would expect the models to start to align with it being sampled in our data network.  Wouldn't surprise me to see a tick back up in the amount across all the models.

1 hour ago, Tyler Penland said:

In what I can only assume was a bizarre flow direction I had more snow here at the house than Tynecastle did 700ft above me. Granted we only had about 3/4" but Boone got nothing and Tynecastle had a light dusting yesterday morning.
Very weird. First time that's ever happened.

What I thought was also weird was the real lack of strong wind with the flow snow.  Normally at my location the snow doesn't just fall and lay but blows around everywhere.  I can get 5 inches and have a dusting in areas due to wind blowing it all away. 

Still plenty of snow around this Saturday morning. 

And yet snowflakes continue to fly here on Beech.  Lol

Any yet the flakes keep flying.  About 2 inches here on Beech. 

13 minutes ago, Met1985 said:

Should snow up there for most of the day I think. 

Yeah it's looking pretty decent.  850 temps crashing all day with 850 moisture.  Maybe squeeze out 1-2 more inches

Nice flow snow going on.  A little over an inch so far.  If I can eek out 2 I'll be stoked. 

Just dumping massive flakes here.  Lol. Too bad it won't last long. 

Just now, Tyler Penland said:

Wet flakes mixing in up on Beech in the heavier precip.

Yep...finally first winter precip of the day.

Dropping temps at 4650 on Beech. 32.7.  

1 minute ago, Tyler Penland said:

30 and slick slick slick.

Foscoe right?

CAD hates my location on Beech.  Lol.  35 with a DP of 35.  

2 minutes ago, SnoJoe said:

Got down to 29.9 at 7 pm. Now at 33.7. I wonder if there any correlation between the CAD getting stronger and temps rising directly to the west of it. I've seen this many times where I live. Maybe Moto is right where they merge.

What I've noticed since we've had our place here for the past 4 winters in that Beech is on the west fringe of the CAD zone.  When CAD is building it seems to have no problem getting to my location but once it starts to erode I warm up very quickly while Blowing Rock just to my west stays much colder.  So I'm hoping for an overperforming system for my area since the high pressure feeding the CAD is pretty much anchored and not just sliding out to sea.

Getting nutting temp fluctuations here at elevation.

Was at 30 around 7p and then climbed to 34 by 950p and now have dropped to 28.0.  Lost 6 degrees in the last 30 minutes.

Wedge is on the move now.  Getting gusts into the mid 20s now and my DP has dropped to 11 here at 4650 on Beech Mtn

Oh also when CAD is decent my winds gust to 30+ consistently as I'm wide open to the east on the side of south facing Beech.   Right now gusts are less than 10mph so CAD really hasn't got cranking yet.

30.6 with a DP of 19 here at 4650 on Beech.  At my location as long as CAD is still strong I do OK but once CAD starts to die it's over for me.  Tomorrow should be interesting to say the least.

Best snow of the day happening right now here on Beech.  Everything has a nice coating. Maybe 1/4 to 1/2 inch.  

36 here at 4650 on Beech and precip is changing to sleet.  Snow shouldn't be far behind