2025-2026 Fall/Winter Mountain Thread

[BooneWX]

Good morning my Appalachian brethren. I hope your week is going well. I’ve come here to join forces as a collective council. For years, we’ve been divided by rich (windward hills) and poor (leeward hills). The time has come for forces to align. There was a period many years ago where we could forcefully WILL an out-east weenie map westward. Do we have the same magic in us? I think we could. Everyone focus all of your positive energy as a collective western NC body to get the pretty pink colors over us by say Thursday. 

[WinstonSalemArlington]

[Buckethead]

Starting the day at 2° with light diamond dust falling in Wolf.

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[Maggie Valley Steve]

8 this morning.

[Buckethead]

It was colder at the base of the mountain.

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[Moonhowl]

13 minutes ago, Maggie Valley Steve said:

8 this morning.

Same here just east of the big city.

[GoAPPS]

Timing is everything with this weekend's system. The Euro phases the upper low later and farther east, leaving the mountains with cold air aloft but limited divergence and moisture. The GFS phases earlier, allowing stronger upper-level divergence to overlap deeper moisture and throw precip back into the Appalachians.

[Tyler Penland]

1 hour ago, GoAPPS said:

 

Timing is everything with this weekend's system. The Euro phases the upper low later and farther east, leaving the mountains with cold air aloft but limited divergence and moisture. The GFS phases earlier, allowing stronger upper-level divergence to overlap deeper moisture and throw precip back into the Appalachians.

We saw this song and dance a couple weeks ago. Later phase by the Euro won.

[Tyler Penland]

3.9º for a low at the house this morning. Temperature shot up to 17º by 8AM, though, which was kinda weird.

 

[Hvward]

Most models are showing some form of snow showers Friday night and into Saturday for most of us here in WNC.  Early phase looks better for a boom, but looks like a 1"-3" or 2"-4" event is on the table for most every model.  That's more snow than I have seen in a while, I'll take it!

[Maggie Valley Steve]

I'm glad I finally got above freezing this afternoon. The driveway is finally dry and I can get out as needed. 

[Buckethead]

Spruce Pine is still under a sheet of ice today.

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[Rainforrest]

Haywood emc still has over 700 outages in Transylvania county. 

[Tacoma]

we need this storm to dig a little more to the sw to get in on a big snowstorm

 

[snowbird1230]

She dug..and then some. I often wonder what happened to the Old ULL's..The bowling balls...Appears this one is definitely bowling. BUT its the GFS