Tyler Penland

It's been trying to mix in here at the house all morning. Mostly just a sleet/rain mix.

Edit: now some snowflakes finally.

Solid dusting on the cams in Banner Elk.

You could make a very convincing argument over the past decade that the worst location for snow in NC is the Lee/escarpment. It sounds asinine given the CAD potential and higher elevation but dang. Downsloped on flow and eastward tracking upper lows. And many storms phase too late for us to be part of the fun. 2018 was nice but holy cow I don’t remember a time where we’ve been in snow poverty worse than this stretch of years. 

If y'all south mountain folks cash in again while the northern are just dry I'm gonna move in with one of you.

00z nam. Pretty aggressive.

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Well looks like I might get a snow hike in finally.

Off on Friday, looks like I'll be heading up early to Roan Mountain.

Another dusting here. I think that makes 5 or 6 snows of less than an inch this season.

I think I had more accumulation of limbs and sticks overnight. The difference in wind here at the house with W vs NW is wild. Not nearly as protected with W as NW.

The only caveat I see is the flow is more westerly this time. My area doesn't do as well typically in that setup.

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The 18z gfs operation doesn't look good either. Doesn't really make a great push of cold air in here at all. The negative epo just dumps west and the SER flexes and the trough cuts north of us. 

I'm back to light snow here as well.

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Maybe a half inch here south of Boone. Pretty snow though sticking to everything.

The 12z Euro really doesn't look terrible for NWF mid-week. 

I'm curious to see which model winds up right with the clipper on Saturday morning. GFS would be a nice little snow hit but the Euro is like "what system".

Yeah the so called pattern change is not going to come to fruition until probably March.... There has been a recurring them that has repeated since September. And that is exactly what we are looking at. At this point the only way we get a synoptic storm is threading the needle on a storm because we are getting plenty of moisture in here.

18z GFS is a beautiful run from mid next week onward.

Unfortunately it's the GFS.
And mid next week.

Blew the forecast low of 20 out of the water last night and made it to 14.7. A little snow cover and calm winds goes a long ways.

Just got back from a quick walk on the Parkway up to Rough Ridge on Grandfather. Very little snow on that side, maybe an inch at most. Several sections were mostly bare ground.

The wind was absolutely insane, however. First time I've ever been sitting on a rock outcrop and been scooted sideways along the ground in a gust. Easily 60-70MPH up there.

About 2" south of Boone.

Looked at webcams this morning and you could still see some grass in town. Definitely a southern mountain special. Congrats guys!

Been a dusting to sunshine to bare ground to dusting and rinse, wash, repeat here so far. Just can't break far enough below freezing to maintain between showers with the downsloping.

Finally down to 32 even with a solid dusting in the last 15 minutes. Absolutely dumped there for a bit.

Been snowing here all morning but hovering just above freezing so no accumulation yet.

Currently 32.7

One of the stronger hail storms we've had in years here south of Clayton. Just absolutely dumped pea mixed with some qtr size for a solid 5+ minutes.

Good call and should be easy to get in an out off. 
 

Did you see the hrrr? It has the gl fetch reaching down there.



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Good luck to all you guys. I'll be heading to the North GA mountains on Friday morning so I'll be out of here before the fun stuff starts. Gonna try to get up to the higher elevations on Saturday and enjoy whatever little bit they get down there, though.

25 here. Station about a half mile up the hill in Seven Devils is reporting 36.9

What I've always found interesting is the wind right along the top of the inversion. It's very breezy just at the treetops here but calm right on ground level.