Moonhowl

The cool down after the storms the past few days has been fabulous.

Barely a dusting here, wind cranking. Still a little PTSD from Helene, didn't make for a restful night.

So your saying not a March 1993 repeat

Glad there is rain on the way, still worry about slope stability with heavy rain in the forecast.

The typical scenario is spring for a week or two in February, second winter starts in March and other than brief warm-ups lasts until the first week in May then summer. So, since you missed spring, the second week in May?

I agree. I am expecting the teleconnections to repeatedly go into a cold pattern throughout the spring. I suspect any warm ups will be followed by more cold on up into the first week of May. We will see...

Went cross country skiing on the Parkway from the Hwy 276 intersection toward Shining Rock thanks to that event. They had plowed the Parkway to Pisgah Inn by the time we got up there. A long time ago but I don't recall seeing any snow in the downtown Asheville area.

Winters of 2009-2010 and early 2010-2011 before the February 2011 warm up were epic. Haven't seen anything remotely similar since then; certainly no 10 inch snows IMBY. Not quite as excited about big snows as I used to be since my steep driveway is not usable with even a 1/4" on it. Good exercise but snow shoveling was getting a little old in 2010, lol.

Glad someone's memory is better than mine; went back and looked at photos and you look to be correct for 2021; appears to have exceeded 2 inches. My photographic record doesn't indicate much for 2021. Temp bottomed out around 13 F here as well. January 16, 2022:

Yes, as a valley dweller in Asheville, weather wise I think I have more in common with the foothills folks than the high elevation mountain folks getting snow regularly. However, that doesn't bother me and I enjoy seeing the snow photos. The big snow for me this year was less than an inch. My memory is way short of perfect, I think, could be wrong, the last time I had more than 2 inches in any one event was 2019 and even then totals were cut due to transition to sleet.

Of course the poster formerly known as AshevilleDon is always welcome here and thanks for sharing, great photos!

You made me look; and yes, light snow!

A throw back to being AshevilleDon; nice!

Ha, I was at NCSU as well. Some friends and I walked down to Reynolds Coliseum to gawk at people camping out for NCSU vs Duke basketball tickets that evening.. Chancellor Bruce Poulton got nervous they would die and later let them camp inside Reynolds.

I remember that one quite well. A buddy of mine was at App State at the time, he put on all the winter clothes he had and hiked up to the fire tower above Boone. Took his camera, film camera, and it froze. Raleigh, NC had its all time low of -9 F during that event.