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Your looking at a strictly IMBY viewpoint. Last winter we had a similar cold stretch in December to the one we just had. We also had a decent NWFS in January which you just had this month. We also had no snow or even legitimate snow threats within 5 days for the foothills and piedmont last winter and that's been the case this winter too. It's been wetter overall since late December than last winter which has helped keep the temps down. Yes it has been a little colder overall but its not like this winter has been a complete 180 from last. The temperature departures in January are going to look like a La Nina, not an El Niño (cold upper Midwest). The system that brought TN valley snow was more like a La Nina system not El Nino. Most of the mountains and ski areas are still pretty far below their 30 year average for snow but obviously doing better than just east.

Thanks for verifying this. All I have been trying to say is the weeklies should be taken with a grain of salt. They are slightly better than searching for a black wooly worm.

This was 9 days ago and looks nothing like the upcoming pattern.

You know deep down what will happen. A few cold days then warm up and rain.

It was modeled about 7 to 10 days ago. Before that, the weeklies and long range ENS continued to say cold or average and stormy. Now the Pac Jet has taken over again. The fact is, this winter has been much like the last few. Temperatures have been slightly cooler but no synoptic storms, miller A's, ULL, etc.

The weeklies also showed the whole month of January being great into February at one point. We all see how that turned out. One week of cold temperatures and some snow in the mountains

The big picture says wait at least 3 weeks

Even at day 10 there is no cold at all in Canada. It's going to take a while for any pattern change. Likely post Valentines day if it happens at all.

Already down to 25

8 here as well

This wind has been worse tonight than last night here.. wind chill hovering between 0 and 5.

Down to 18 here

My question, how the heck do you all find the time to take these great pictures?!

It's 29 here but seems to have stopped rising. Don't think we crack freezing

Only 18 here. Wind kept going all night. Cold but not frigid.

20 or so years ago when I was a teenager trout fishing was so much better and places like the Upper Wilson Creek tributaries were somewhat secluded. I would catch huge native brookies (which is like 10 inches) Now it's a shitshow up there in the spring. Same with South Toe and other places. The road being washed out helped a little up there. Covid really brought the people to places I never expected to see full. Now it's almost always full.

Chasing native brookies. Something that's getting harder and harder these days.

I'm a little disappointed we haven't had better rates since the heavy band earlier. A lot has melted and the sun has been out for the majority of the afternoon. Still grateful to see snow!

Right at an inch here. Slackened off but I hope that band thats hitting Met makes it here

Side roads starting to get covered in west asheville

Beautiful snow in Asheville. Good dusting already

Few flurries in West Asheville. Hope to see a dusting while at work today

uhm.. yay?

Thank goodness they treated roads here. They are all covered in ice