Met1985

On 9/4/2019 at 7:55 PM, wncsnow said:

Just moved back to the area guys. Been gone for years but look forward to being back and tracking winter storms with you all! 

Welcome! Its always a pleasure seeing more mountain people posting. 

13 hours ago, Moonhowl said:

Looking forward to the weather than next few days, sunshine with a hint of fall.  The radar this morning has the NWFS look at the TN border counties

Yeah we had some upslope showers roll through.  Good times. 

What an amazing past couple of days! Saturday we did not get out of the 60s and Sunday we did not get out of the low 70s. Monday was also spectacular for August.  

What an absolute beautiful evening and night! Fall is in the air. Enjoy!

8 hours ago, Sw NC weather said:

Quite the line of storms working through WNC at the moment. We’re getting heavy rains and gusty winds as well as a awesome light show!

Yeah we had thunder and lightning for hours and hours last night. Woke up to moderate to heavy rainfall currently.  

We have had so many storms today and this evening.  Its been exciting for a change. We are also going to get a taste of fall soon.

Severe Thunderstorm watch for the area fellas. Be on the lookout.

For August this has been the perfect weather. Absolutely loving this for August weather.

A pretty balanced out day for early sun to evening rain each day this week. Again we are well above average for precipitation currently but the temps for this time of year are right at average so no complaints.

On 7/15/2019 at 1:27 PM, BlueRidgeFolklore said:

My son starts football this week and it got me thinking about how fall is right around the corner. I noticed the CPC 4 days ago put out a discussion stating their belief that we're headed toward ENSO-neutral through fall and winter. So for the sake of breaking up the silence, what is everyone projecting for fall heading into winter here in the mountains?

https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.shtml

I think we will be warm and dry this fall into winter. With the way spring and summer have been I think that is our future winter...

Hopefully we get some big boomers tonight.

1 hour ago, Rainforrest said:

Looks like it’s going to get nasty this pm and tonight. 

Yeah especially for the eastern escarpment.  We are getting into some heavy rainfall this late afternoon but the upslope regions look to get hammered on the eastern side tonight. 

This return of unsettled weather will be here to stay for a bit. After a relatively dry hot May, June will be much different.  Unsettled with near normal temps. Also the Euro is showing a pretty good trough dipping down next week that could bring some nice temps with continued unsettled weather. 

Someone said it was getting dry? Someone said we need some rain? Mother nature said I got you!!!!

Beautiful pics eyewall.

46 minutes ago, Sw NC weather said:

So much for the rain free week picked up 0.71 inches in some heavy showers

Yeah we had a good thunderboomer move through this morning. 

Had a total of 2.87 inches of rainfall for the weekend.  This weather we are having is picture perfect! Man I wish all of summer was like this.

Yeah I looked the other day and we are already 10 inches above normal for the year already in precipitation....

Heavy rain training over the area could spell trouble later on. Its been mostly moderate to heavy rainfall most of the morning. 

Looks like we will have a very active weekend with storms and heavy rain. Then we cool down nicely next week.

Heavy rain and a bit windy this morning.  Nothing new about that really.

5 hours ago, NGTim said:

Wound up at 5400 at the entrance to Mile High Campground just off the Blue Ridge Parkway above Maggie Valley, and measured 4 inches of snow in one spot Saturday around 6pm.  And i think it snowed another inch or so that night (based on what we saw at Soco Gap on Sunday)  but can't vouch for that.   All i can say is I was in light to mostly moderate to sometimes heavy snow from about 10am until after 8pm Saturday.  it was amazing the difference in a couple hundred feet of elevation.  While heavy ground (grass/tree) covering snow at 5400, almost nothing at 5000 (at least Sat during the day).   

Also learned a good lesson. Always bring sleeping bags, etc, even when its April 20 and you think you just might just chase to Highlands or something, because plans may change, and you may find yourself locked behind the gate at Soco gap above Maggie Valley on the Blue Ridge Parkway at 5000 feet in the dark at 8:30 with snow pouring.  Also, pay attention to mile markers so you can tell someone exactly where you are if you have to call someone.  I won't go into all the details, but we made it down, and I am thankful to whoever was in the silver Tundra? that showed us a back way off the parkway.  What's odd is that when we went back Sunday, there was an additional gate that was closed that was not closed Saturday night.  if that second gate had been closed i guess we may have had to camp overnight in the truck!  My daughter actually enjoyed the excitement, so that was good, and it actually was a rush, but I'm just glad i didn't learn this lesson in say January or Feb!

 

 

Great score man! You can just about always count on Haywood county to bring the goods from Balsam,  Maggie valley, Crabtree, Fines Creek, and Max Patch. 

Snowing in the higher elevations of Haywood. Has been since this morning. 

The wind is ripping tonight. 

Crazy rainfall amounts! Some people this month have already received over 10 inches of rainfall.  our surplus is insane with precipitation amounts.