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Beautiful shot! I am thinking someone is going to get hammered, but looking at winds it will be a bit more westerly flow. Usually someone gets popped who isn't expecting it. Hopefully it's my backyard! Good luck.

Beautiful sunrise this morning in Black Mountain.

A little clearing in between bands here at the house in Black Mountain. We have around .75” or so. Really interesting to see this deformation band setup. I still think it’s going to be the main show.

Snow breaking out at my new location just south of the Reservoir at 2900' in Black Mountain. Our first snow in the new house. Doesn't matter how much we get, just amazing to see flakes falling here while I sit in the living room by the wood fire. Hope we get a surprise here!

Already about a half inch here in Alexander. This better change over soon or the NAM 3km is going to bust bad.

Temps are razor thin on the NAM 3km. IMO going to take more than 500-750ft in the atmosphere of temps above freezing to full melt, especially with how cold the surface is. Thinking the NAM may have qpf close, but thinking temps might be causing the model to believe its sleet, but in reality it will fall as heavy snow with big flakes that stick together. Just my opinion, hope everyone is doing well!

Checking in everyone. All my family is fine. Our new house we are building in Laurel Ridge up near the North Fork Reservoir in Black Mountain faired well, but the road is absolutely destroyed to the neighborhood. The photo shows the bridge that the Swannanoa River used to go under, and now the new path is has made. It took out about 100ft of road and that road had the main waterline to Asheville right beside it. So in short, we were supposed to move in two months, but now that looks to be delayed til the first of the year. There is also a 200ft wide mudslide on the road right above us that I am facilitating a crew to tackle. All in all we faired extremely well and feel so blessed. Lots of clean-up to be done as all of you know, but it has been so amazing to see this community come together. We had a few folks in Laurel Ridge trapped by the mudslide but the Cajun Navy along with The Mule Team were both able to provide support and everyone has been reached! There is a light at the end of this tunnel and it's very bright for this amazing community.

This morning around Asheville it seems if you drive up the right hill you switch to snow.

Looks like we have around 3” in Alexander, not going out there right now to measure ha. One of the best northwest flows I can remember.

Getting hammered here in Alexander, already around a half inch or so in broad daylight. These are the northwest flows we missed, I forgot what it was like to just have a mega swath of moisture give all of Buncombe snowfall for a few hours. Roads are starting to get covered as WNC said.

Got some nice NWF coming down here right now in Alexander. We have already picked up a dusting. Great rates.

Sylva getting plastered on the live cam. https://www.ashevillewx.com/ward-plumbing-hvac-sylva-nc-cam

Yeah I am in the northern part of Buncombe, we seem to be getting a bit of that arctic air to filter in down the French Broad.

Feels like we were down big but are pulling a miracle second half comeback. I am down to 35.8, models had me at 42 right now and there is still a good bit of precip to pull through the area.

Flurries showing up on one of my Maggie Valley cams.

18z Nam 3km expanded the southern periphery of moisture. Has many around WNC getting snow showers around 8-9pm tonight. Models are clearly struggling with what the moisture is going to do when it hits the mountains.

Thanks everyone I’ll be live at 6pm.

Yeah sometime this evening. Trying to get my thoughts together and see what the radar shows. Sometimes I wish I could just enjoy it and just watch the window haha.

Lots of moisture in Northern Mississippi developing right now. HRRR doesn’t show anything over Tupelo for another 4 hours but mping is showing frozen precip.

One thing I am noticing on the 6z Euro is the idea of the stream staying intact for a longer duration. Check out the banding that is showing Tuesday morning now across parts of AL, MS, & GA. Looking back at the past several Euro runs this is by far the most moisture being shown across those areas in that time frame. Also shows it as frozen. That SW directional flow would still support the fire hose into WNC.

Obviously this did not verify. Admittedly I think I was a bit over zealous. The low trended a bit more north, but I think we get better flow into Asheville when the low bombs out on the coast. Hoping to see some good backside flow with this next system late Tuesday.

Trend is our friend this morning. 6z Euro looks great. I could see Asheville getting 3"-6" if trends continue.

Haha yep the Navgem, its one shining moment. I think I posted it several time. The southern periphery of the moisture was really under modeled in Dec 2017 and it ended up being much more than models showed. There was much less of a southern component though from my memory. Hopefully short range models begin to give us a better idea here soon.

Has it ever happened where Gatlinburg got a foot of snow and Asheville got nothing? This one just isn't making sense to me. That initial baroclinic leaf just stops at the line? The skew T shows a pretty saturated column but the downsloping in the lower levels dries it out. The skew T still shows snow is the p type though. I have more questions than answers right now on this one.

Models always struggle with overrunning precip here. I go back to the Dec 2017 storm where a stream of moisture setup similar to what the Euro shows now. We got 9". Honestly... looking at the skew T, moisture is in the snow growth zone per 12z Euro from early Monday through Tuesday around Asheville. Temp barely goes above freezing as well during that time period. You can clearly see the models struggling with this, but I am giving WNC pretty good odds right now to see snow accumulation of some kind Monday and into Tuesday.