franklin NCwx

Unfortunately this has been the norm here for the last 3 years. I'm sure it will over perform too.

We still have almost 3 months left for most of the mtns and even may for the highest elevations.

I guess our goal in the southern mtns can be to exceed 100" of rain in a year again. Great times!!

Lol... we are well below are average.

You can always take a ride over to Fontana dam and take a drive on the dragon's tail or cherohala skyway.

Anytime! I'm not sure we're you're staying in Maggie, but if you take 19west towards Cherokee, Bryson city. At the top of the mtn just a few miles up from tube world is soco gap. You can turn left onto the parkway which is closed but its 4500' and a great sledding hill. You should be good for an inch or possibly 2 there overnight. If you want a beautiful drive back home take 19w to 74 w and follow that around Fontana lake, through the nantahala gorge and ocoee gorge. This will take you into SE Tennessee not too far from Chattanooga.

Good to see you finally got some snow. I know y'all have been screwed over the years

Checkout cataloochee sometime

Right before you cross intonNC coming up 441 take a right on to106 and follow it 15 miles up to Highlands. Once in Highlands you can play in the snow then take 64 west to Franklin. Beautiful drive, you will love it.

Just go to Highlands. Several inches on the ground there. It's a lot closer to Greenville

Several inches on the ground in Highlands if you want to see snow. The drive from Franklin to Highlands through the Cullasaja gorge is one of the best ones you will find this side of the Rockies!

64 between Highlands and Cashiers is closed due to snow. Great job NWS.

Needed the rates. Clayton came out even better.

The best lift was just east of the divide. Highlands, glenville, Cashiers, toxaway were the best spots.

Snowing in Franklin

And Arizona is the new Alaska. Trough is in the west, it happens some years.

We got wind and partly cloudy

We got a decade's worth of blocking from dec 09 until mid January 2011. It's been Mia in winter since then.

11-12 was a crappy winter along with this one so far. Those are the only bad winters since the winter of 09. 08-09 was a horrendous winter here. We even missed on that March upper level low.

In the two winters of 09-10 and 10-11 we got about 8 years worth of our average. We had several bad winters in the 90's and early 2000's. I remember those.

This winter has been terrible for everyone east of the Mississippi. We are averaging out our climo. We had a good run from 09 till about 2017. A couple epic years in there too. Dont worry, it will snow again.

It will be close to freezing at his locale

People only remember the great winters of the past. 09-10 was the best winter here in the mtns. The winter of 08-09 was terrible.

It will be Arctic air. Just flushed out quickly with no blocking.

Just don't have any blocking. This is why the Atlantic is so important