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Absolutely! We have quite a few classics around here. Maybe the old Yesterday’s on NC 127 that’s now a plasma donation center will have a special sparkle with a couple inches of snow on the roof. We do get great views of Grandfather Mountain from US 321-N approaching the Catawba River on clear days. We just imagine what it must be like to have snow on the ground around us rather than a few short miles to our west and a half-plus mile up.

That’s awesome, guys! Glad you could get together and do that. The pictures were amazing!

I always feel this way now. We have been burned for far too long. 100% agree. On a positive note, it appears we will have no issue with the cold, no matter which model we are viewing. The QPF is the issue here. We need the storm to wind up and move up the coast for us to get those bigger totals. Of course, that brings in more mixing for those to our south and east. If it just slides along underneath us and out to sea, we are looking at much lighter totals than we could have in the first scenario.

You do not exhibit an attitude in your online persona that appears to want to learn. You have made strong statements against what many others are posting. You are defiant when called out about it. You called out one of the most respected mets in the SE subforum, @msuwx. This is why many are upset at you in the main forum. Exhibit a bit more humility, and I imagine the response would be different. Also, I see no evidence that this site is dying, and I continue to enjoy posting and learning here. I am grateful for this online weather community, as many others are too.

Now that's a traditional foothills special from days of growing up in the 1980s and 1990s. Bring it on! Amazing sledding conditions.

Had a nice glaze over everything this morning. I was surprised.

31.7/29 as I head to bed. No precipitation at the moment. .

32.0/28 with drizzle. That precipitation has dragged the temperature down quickly, but we'll see how long it lasts at freezing or lower. I don't notice any glaze, as of yet, even on the elevated surfaces.

WWAs just got extended to Catawba, Iredell, and Rowan counties until 7 AM... ...for a light glaze.

That is crazy! 6+ inches of surprise snowfall in Galax and surrounding areas?!?!

33.2/26 with drizzle

33.7/26 now

34.3/25 here. Think I am a bit too east for any ZR tonight, but I could be wrong. .

Moderate sleetfest outside. 35.2/19 here. .

…featuring the good ol’ leeside minimum FTW! Edit: I know, I know. Way too early to sweat such details. But, we’ve been burned by the Apps so many times, too.

Mountain cams are pretty impressive right now on Resort Cams. Black Mountain actually has quite the snow showers right now. More than Boone, Blowing Rock, or Beech Mt, in terms of rate of snowfall. (Those other places have more on the ground, though.)

Year 2024 final stats from my backyard Davis Vantage Vue: Hi Temp: 100.4 F Hi DP: 82 F Hi Pressure: 1043.8 mb Lo Temp: 11.8 F Lo DP: 3 F Lo Pressure: 991.0 mb Total Rainfall: 69.71 inches This year's rainfall total increased my 10-year mean annual rainfall by ~2.5 inches to 63.17 inches and increased my 10-year median annual rainfall by ~3.5 inches to 60.48 inches.

And, they made for excellent sledding conditions. I remember several of those types of storms growing up in the 80s and 90s in Lenoir. 4-6 inches of snow, followed by a half inch of sleet, and then a glaze of ice makes for fantastic sledding, as I recall.

I know! I am afraid to mention anything to anyone about our chances. Don’t wanna jinx it. I’m thankful the weather has been seasonal, at least, this winter. And now, it’s looking like some true winter cold is on the way. Just got to time the precipitation right. On a related note, I feel the pain, @wncsnow , but I’m not quite to the doom-posting level that you have reached. I suppose I had the benefit of watching snow fall for an hour or so back in early December. That was such a nice treat, even though it only amounted to a minor dusting. .

Bring it on! I am cautiously optimistic for January, while still telling all my friends and family that it can no longer snow in Hickory: It’s climatologically impossible.

Merry Christmas, foothills gang! I asked Santa for no downsloping and a true Miller A.

Don't have my final tally here at work, but it was still raining when I left home. We were at over 4 inches of rainfall yesterday and today combined when I left. Crazy. That's almost four feet of potential snow...

Google promising incredibly accurate AI-generated 15-day forecasts. I'll believe it when I see it... https://www.barrons.com/news/google-says-ai-weather-model-masters-15-day-forecast-cdc5793d

Still light snow, but I’ve got to get some sleep… Hard to tell what to measure this as. More than a trace. Not a half inch. I’ll call it 0.1 or 0.2, I suppose. We’ll see if it increases as the night wears on. .

Winding down here, I think. Huge over-performer! So amazing to see snow fall from the sky in my backyard once again. It had been far too long… .