Tyler Penland

Spent the afternoon hiking the Parkway from Beacon Heights to near Rough Ridge. Wind was absolutely brutal. Snow was 10+" deep on the Tanawa at Wilson Creek. Drifts up to my knees in spots.

Wound up with a drift on my board so had to measure around the yard. Average of 5.5". Solid event and still coming down.

Up to 3.5" and back to some snow, but not heavy just yet. Probably more in the rest of the county we usually get down sloped by Grandfather a bit in these situations.

Almost 3" and been hammering for a bit. Y'all can have the sleet, our roads are bad enough.

Snow started about 11:30 in Blowing Rock. Only about a half inch so far here at the house but it's coming down decent. 24º

55 minutes ago, Met1985 said:

Basically we are in a now cast situation.  We are about 12 hours from the start of this storm. The storm is a beast in Texas and looks very healthy. 

If I had a nickel for every gulf storm that the globals understate northern precip amounts on I'd have a lot of nickels.

We've managed to get to 25 so far after a low of 9. Actually feels really nice in the sunshine.

MRX went straight to a warning for 3-5".

3 minutes ago, acc fan said:

Still no products from Blacksburg office. Anyone have an idea why this may be?

They like to do this. Wait til the last minute. They've completely botched more than one event since I moved up here in 2015, too. Just keep watching the models, things are looking better and better for us (NW shifts for the win). 

I'm wondering when FFC/GSP is gonna pull their warning trigger, too. Less than 24 hours now.

I don't think lack of precip is gonna be an issue for most (remember globals are going to underestimate that every single time) but the warm nose on the NAM is very concerning to me. It doesn't miss on those much.

I'm in Asheville but wife said 25 with a glaze at the house.

Haven't been able to get my station to recognize the wifi since Helene.

It's the light stuff that accumulates fast. 

Fair.

Not even picked up a glaze that I can see yet. Temp says 28. Feels like a heat wave.

One thing I noted is that after we go briefly above freezing in the morning we are looking at a 7-10 day stretch below freezing here. Reminiscent of the 2018 freeze out. Should be some nice frozen waterfalls soon.

Over to ZR in Blowing Rock now. Very light stuff fortunately.

31 according to the truck and a sleet/graupel/snow kinda thing here in Blowing Rock.

That's a lot of precip over central TN that wasn't supposed to be there last night.

Absolutely hammered for a bit. 1.5" now.

Kicking and crawling our season total up to 7.8".

Just hit 1".

22 with light flurries/diamond dust here this morning. Very pretty.

Glancing at the Euro soundings verbatim it is very, very close to staying all snow in the mountains on Monday. I would imagine the warm nose wins (it almost always does) but it is very close. 

20 minutes ago, Buckethead said:

28 with moderate snow and a solid dusting.

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I wondered when the cold front was gonna get here. Barely any wind in Blowing Rock all day but its breezy here at the house now. 

NAM looks solid overnight. Should hit the high elevations decent.

GFS on a bit of an island with the CAD event Monday but plenty of time for that to change up. I'm scheduled to be working in Asheville so you can bet on a sleet/ZR storm down there at least.

Until we can get one of these bigger things under 240 hours I'll believe it when I see it.

Remember the extended for the end of December was an extreme torch and that didn't work out. No reason to believe the opposite will be true 2 weeks from now.

Sitting quite literally at the top of the wedge right now. 43 degrees a quarter mile downhill from me. 51 and windy here imby.

12z GFS real real close to a mountain whopper next week. That time frame has been showing potential for a bit now.

3/4" here overnight. Still a bit of light stuff falling this morning. Stuck to absolutely everything, quite pretty.

I think we got about 5 raindrops out of this somehow.

Really like the look of Friday night. Too bad I gotta work Saturday lol