2025-2026 Fall/Winter Mountain Thread

[Met1985]

Just now, wncsnow said:

NW flow really saving yall

Yeah man it does.  We get the majority of our seasonal average with upslope snow. Look at @Buckethead annual snowfall.  I mean he's high in elevation but he can average like 70 plus and get a foot during a good flow snow event.  He'll he probably just about matches Roan mountain.  We don't need synoptic along the border bro. We just need great forcing,  cold air, and the right wind direction to cash in. I've actually seen where we get a synoptic storm but then we get more flow snow than we do synoptic snow. Flow snow is our bread and butter.

[Maggie Valley Steve]

3 minutes ago, wncsnow said:

Look at my chart of Boone. So you're telling me you have seen more snow than Boone during that time period? I think we all get caught up in 2 or 3 inch events when the long term average is still much higher than what we have been getting recently. What is your average in Maggie Valley? I'm guessing closer to 30 inches long term. 

Maggie Valleys average is 8 to 10 inches a year. I've surpassed for the last 6 years and already well on the way to surpass the average again this winter. We need a big synoptic storm Region wide to calm the Mountain envy!

[Buckethead]

Yeah man it does.  We get the majority of our seasonal average with upslope snow. Look at [mention=2505]Buckethead[/mention] annual snowfall.  I mean he's high in elevation but he can average like 70 plus and get a foot during a good flow snow event.  He'll he probably just about matches Roan mountain.  We don't need synoptic along the border bro. We just need great forcing,  cold air, and the right wind direction to cash in. I've actually seen where we get a synoptic storm but then we get more flow snow than we do synoptic snow. Flow snow is our bread and butter.

Yup, synoptic storms usually don't produce for me. I'm averaging about 51" over the last 8 seasons (2022-2024 really pulled that average down), and I would guess that >90% of my snow is NWF.

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[Maggie Valley Steve]

Anyway, skies have cleared and the temperature has dropped 5F the past hour. Currently 37 at 5 o'clock. 

[Met1985]

4 minutes ago, Maggie Valley Steve said:

Anyway, skies have cleared and the temperature has dropped 5F the past hour. Currently 37 at 5 o'clock. 

Yup 36 degrees here.

[wncsnow]

49 minutes ago, Buckethead said:

Yup, synoptic storms usually don't produce for me. I'm averaging about 51" over the last 8 seasons (2022-2024 really pulled that average down), and I would guess that >90% of my snow is NWF.

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I would love to see the 60 year average for your location. I bet you had a lot of 75" seasons in the past.