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.

1 hour ago, Met1985 said:

The models have been going back and forth with this system around the 9th but this is what we have this morning. Nor as amped but brings in snow instead of rain.

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So your saying not a March 1993 repeat

11 hours ago, Met1985 said:

Wildfires popping up all over the area tonight. A Wildfire near MM 12 going into the Gorge on I40 near where the interstate just reopened. 

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

On 2/26/2025 at 10:59 AM, Met1985 said:

Yall want to start the spring/summer thread in March or in April?

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?

11 hours ago, BooneWX said:

Also not sure winter and tracking is done. The MJO is parked in phase 1 and the models playing catch up to the cold wouldn’t be a shocker after the past few months. It’s certainly not going to have the same strength and bite this time around but the mountains can get major events into April and the entire northern tier of the south is due for a March storm.

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...

6 hours ago, Met1985 said:

This was a famous late season snowstorm. The huge snow on May 5th 1992. Was a huge surprise. 

https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2017/05/remembering-the-surprise-spring-snow-in-may-1992/

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.

41 minutes ago, ncjoaquin said:

You're welcome. No, you really have the best approach right. No need to get excited until your tires are spinning in the driveway. 

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.

37 minutes ago, wncsnow said:

January, 2022

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:

21 hours ago, GoAPPS said:

I feel this as an Asheville resident. Pretty sure Wilmington has more total snow than us so far this year. People think it snows here a lot (because mountains), but they don’t know about the Asheville Snow Hole.

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.

3 hours ago, NavarreDon said:

One of my best friends (now retired) was a flight surgeon and spent a good bit of time at NAS Pensacola. We will always have a piece of the Mnts in our hearts but we love living here. Thank you all for the kind words and letting me share my out of place posts in your thread!


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

1 minute ago, ncjoaquin said:

 

I hadn't even looked until I saw this. Definitely light snow falling !!

You made me look; and yes, light snow!

1 hour ago, NavarreDon said:

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A throw back to being AshevilleDon; nice!

49 minutes ago, ncjoaquin said:

I was at NC State at the time. I was parking at the fringe lot. I had already walked a long way.  Some lady's battery died and she needed a jump. I felt like I was literally going to freeze to death out there. I briefly hated her, but I got over it, lol.

 

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.

10 minutes ago, Met1985 said:

I think he might have been talking about the Arctic outbreak of 1985.

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.

2 hours ago, ncjoaquin said:

About an inch here. A nice blanket of snow, especially when the forecast was for absolutely nothing. 

Wow, barely a dusting on the east side, roads totally fine.

9 minutes ago, Tacoma said:

 

Could it be waiting on another?  Let's hope the wise tell is true.

Well that has more logic to it than many others

2 hours ago, WXNewton said:

I mentioned this in the other discussion topic, there was a storm in mid-February in 2010 that reminds me so much of this and the jet orientation is very similar. I remember all the local news channels and national Weather service keeping it very far south of us, and then once it got into the NAM time frame it was the first to show moisture coming up into North Carolina. We went from a non advisory to a winter weather advisory the day of the storm for 1 to 2 and by the time it was over we had five to six inches. Which 2009 and 10 winter we couldn't miss a snowstorm. This is the lunch time Canadian and the storm from Feb 2010

 

 

The winter of 2009-2010 was epic.  Have not looked at the data but I think that winter was the last time temperatures were as persistently below average as this winter.

3 hours ago, ncjoaquin said:

Not an exact measurement, but have around 1.5 to 2 inches. Not bad. Better than anything since January 2022, so I will take it!

Congrats, I estimate less than an inch here on the east side, had some sleet in the late afternoon.  Less to shovel off the driveway, so that's a win

8 minutes ago, Tyler Penland said:

I don't think lack of precip is gonna be an issue for most (remember globals are going to underestimate that every single time) but the warm nose on the NAM is very concerning to me. It doesn't miss on those much.

The dreaded warm nose, don't be sticking your nose into this storm

Meteogram for Asheville:

From the Cataloochee aerial cam this morning

38 minutes ago, Met1985 said:

Had a low of 12 degrees this morning. Lost power at 5 am and still have no power.  Not a great morning to lose power.  

Not good; hope the power comes back quickly.  A toasty 16 F IMBY this morning.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Getting a snow shower IMBY here in Asheville