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22 minutes ago, Sw NC weather said:

Bring on round 2, I’m down to 28 now, if I can get a repeat of round 1 with the lower temps I’ll be happy.

Radar is blossoming out in western Tennessee.  That should take on a more west to east orientation today.

Snowing hard in Franklin with huge flakes. Gonna take the kids sledding on soco later today.

30 minutes ago, snowbird1230 said:

Radar drying up fast

It should pickup later as the 3rd wave comes through 

Pouring snow on soco 

Light snow falling in Alarka in Swain county now.

Swain and Graham counties are under a warning 

That last wave coming in late Tomorrow looks good for the southern mtns. By Saturday the smokies will probably have a foot of snow on the ground. 

4 minutes ago, Sw NC weather said:

What an unexpected night, crazy amounts of wind and and about an inch of snow. With flurries still flying.

Yeah the wind was crazy last night and this morning.  Nice dusting of snow too!

1 hour ago, Blue_Ridge_Escarpment said:

My guess is probably not enough population living above 3,500 feet and would only cause confusion to the majority that live below that mark. 

That still doesn't make sense. Most people in wnc outside of Asheville work in another town. And to get to another town you usually need to travel over 3500'.

1 hour ago, Tacoma said:

Wow still can't believe the WNC Mountains haven't seen a couple of decent snows.  Don't think I've ever seen weather like this in my 68 years here.  Don't think a year has ever been this bad.

People only remember the good years. 11-12 was a bad year 08-09 was the worst I can remember! There was a few other  bad winters in the early 2000's as well as the 90's. 

1 hour ago, Carvers Gap said:

Interesting.  Definitely supports comments made yesterday in this thread and some off-and-on discussions in the sub-forum.  

That's what I'm looking for. We can overcome a -pna with a strong -nao. See December 2010 and January 11 for example. That was a nina following a moderate nino winter.  

59 minutes ago, mackerel_sky said:

Atleast we got another failure to track!

You won't have to worry about temps with that one

5 hours ago, Hvward said:

 

Thank you. Shouldn’t let people get to me, but at times it happens.

 

Don't sweat them. You made a great call from 5 days out,  pointing out the potential long before most mets and even the models showed much of anything.  Above 3500' your call was good in Macon county.  Below that we couldn't get below freezing.  We would have easily had 6" if all of what fell could have accumulated.  Please keep sharing your thoughts!

6 hours ago, Orangeburgwx said:

18z GFS suites... Do we track?

Sent from my LML212VL using Tapatalk
 

We always track. It's a weather board, that's what we do!

11 minutes ago, Hvward said:

 

Thanks man! Would love to see that deformation feature showing up on the KMRX Radar give everyone a surprise dusting-1” tonight.

Anytime! 

On 2/16/2020 at 11:55 AM, Hvward said:

Really liking the setup for Thursday, we have done ok in these type of overrunning events here in WNC. Think back to early Dec of 2017.

Models tend to under-do that northern periphery of moisture and its extent.

 

 

Gotta give you props.

Even tho we didn't get the accumulations expected with the meager rates and above freezing temps. This was still a great call when models were showing close to nothing.  Great pattern recognition!

6 minutes ago, MountainOctopus said:

Haven't actually measured here, but looks close to a half inch. A little disappointing, but expectations were low, and with this winter...anything is nice. I'm just glad it finally stuck enough to get the trees/ground white. My seed order came in the mail, so I'm planning for the vegetable garden this weekend...I figure once I start doing that, we'll end up with the late season cold snap.  

Hope everyone enjoyed what they got! 

Was hoping to get enough to try out the new tube but unfortunately we did not.

12 minutes ago, wncsnow said:

Dang I thought you would get closer to 5 or 6.. 

Guy I work with lives in Highlands says they have 5 inches there. Makes sense as they had the best qpf and temps below freezing. 

1 minute ago, Rainforrest said:

Yep. We ended up with about 1.75”

End of next week looks cold and snowy. 

Just now, griteater said:

Just pulled an HRRR sounding for 4pm right around Greenville and it shows a very shallow warm layer at the surface and a warm nose that's maybe +0.5 C deg at 800mb

Hard to believe there is an 800mb warm nose with such a meager system.  Usually only see that with amped up golf lows.

We got really good rates for about 2 hours and got about an inch on cars and elevated surfaces.  Temps and rates just didn't cooperate.  Probably would have been at 6 inches easily if we would have been below freezing.  Oh well, on to the next one...

6 minutes ago, snowbird1230 said:

Pretty good bust as far as the models go in the SW mountains..I drove through Cherokee , Clay, Graham, and Swain Counties..saw maybe a 1/8" above 3000 ft..got to give credit to GSP for keeping this toned down pretty well..back edge has made it to Chattanooga..winding down soon

I think what went wrong was we had a due west to east orientation of moisture.  A true sw to NE flow would have been better.  Then then mtns could have enhanced the totals.

9 minutes ago, mwp1023 said:

light snow in Bahama just started

Snowing in the Bahamas?? Dang.......

Just now, Sw NC weather said:

Beat me too it we’ve got a good 1/4 inch here and pouring 

Hopefully we can do this for another 4-5 hours! Would be happy with 3-4 inches.

Its really been coming down the past 15 mins. Everything is white now.