I have to say if it's not been stated but the models did one hell of a job at a long lead time also. The globals basically nailed this a week out. That's really when Cantons Mayor Zeb Smathers started preparing for the storm.
I do to but we are marching everyday towards colder and colder weather. No way of getting around that. From what I can gether there has been a huge outpouring in communities to get people winter gear and blankets for people.
We've got pics in our mountain thread in the SE forum. Anywhere from about 4 inches on Mount Le Conte to about 3 inches from a poster in Wolf Laurel right on the border of TN/NC to a heavy dusting around 4k feet.
Yeah get this at the end of the month and I'd say even some towns like Maggie and Canton here see snow. A nice event though for the 15th and 16th of October.
Seems like the snow line here on Haywood is about 4k plus.. I had snow but it is just too early on in the season. Nice to see the peaks coated in mid October.
Light to moderate snow currently with a temp of 32. This is definitely one of the earliest times I can remember us getting snow in the middle of the month in a long time.