2026 Foothills thread

[strongwxnc]

47 here with a DP of 34.9


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[wncsnow]

21 minutes ago, BooneWX said:

Lmao. I’m at 46 with a dew of 39. Gonna take a hell of an arctic push to even get to the upper 30s.

Wow. Its 39.7 here

[BooneWX]

Just now, wncsnow said:

Wow. Its 39.7 here

You might be seeing the edge of the arctic air a bit before me. Or at least, that’s what I’m telling myself to feel better.

[WNC_Fort]

7 minutes ago, wncsnow said:

Wow. Its 39.7 here

Wonder if the snow this morning helped you out? I’m up at 1560’ and sitting steady at 43

[wncsnow]

7 minutes ago, WNC_Fort said:

Wonder if the snow this morning helped you out? I’m up at 1560’ and sitting steady at 43

That and there being a few breaks in the clouds probably 

[SnowDawg]

43.9/25.1 Gonna take a miracle with the front or really good rates here I’d think.

[BooneWX]

I know the caveats but the AI models really have a barking signal in that 7-10 day range. Can’t trust a thing, but the big dogs always bark early. There’s some absolutely insane ensemble means being printed out cycle after cycle. Gives me some of the same vibes from Dec 2009, Feb 2014 and Dec 2018.

[SnowDawg]

17 minutes ago, BooneWX said:

I know the caveats but the AI models really have a barking signal in that 7-10 day range. Can’t trust a thing, but the big dogs always bark early. There’s some absolutely insane ensemble means being printed out cycle after cycle. Gives me some of the same vibes from Dec 2009, Feb 2014 and Dec 2018.

Euro AI operational is on 7 straight runs now with widespread accumulating snow on a single storm signal 27th-29th.

[wncsnow]

I'm worried the storm showing up in that time period will trend north 

[SnowDawg]

3 minutes ago, wncsnow said:

I'm worried the storm showing up in that time period will trend north 

Euro AI at least is showing blocking and a 50/50. If that actually happens, then it won’t have much room to move north. That’s a big if though. 

[calculus1]

43.6 over 40 with mostly cloudy skies here. Not ideal…


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[BooneWX]

Game on if the blocking comes to fruition, but that’s the main thing I’ll be watching. Nice ridge bridge showing up near the arctic, displacing the TPV almost to New England. Could also be a suppression signal with extreme cold but we seem to have a Nino look and an increasingly active southern jet which makes sense with how fast the Nina background state is collapsing. 

[wncsnow]

Got echoes overhead but nothing falling..39.

 

Edit- rain 

[SnowDawg]

Got down to 37 here during that but the snow level stayed just above my head. I’d say most above 2200 to 2500 saw snow during that heavier bit that came through here. All modeling keeps the next round well to the east so guess it’s on to the end of the month. Still not even a stray flurry so far this winter…

[strongwxnc]

37.9 with echos heading in shortly. 

[Jmoon]

7 minutes ago, strongwxnc said:

37.9 with echos heading in shortly. 

It's going to be close buddy. I think we will at least get to see some snow falling here shortly this morning. Good luck my friend and everyone else in the area.

[strongwxnc]

Looking for some sky candy today nothing much. But the echos coming out of the upstate look to be filling in nicely.

Next weekend continues to look good also !

[WXNewton]

Just confirmed that it is snowing on the Gulf Coast again. Father-in-law is just outside of Pensacola and it's coming down good he said.

[WNC_Fort]

As much as we tried to will it to reality, last night/today just wasn’t going to happen. Trying to stay positive about next weekend/end of Jan

[Jmoon]

Moisture just can't make it this far north.

[WNC_Fort]

You can already see the models trying to find a way to screw the foothills. I give up.

[BooneWX]

Radar filling in across WNC. Let’s see if we can get at least a few mood flakes.

[wncsnow]

Too much downsloping 

[BooneWX]

LIGHT SNOW

[wncsnow]

Not a flake here and blue skies to the west

[calculus1]

There’s a few orphan flakes falling, as I exit church.

“I try not to think about, what might have been…”


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[BooneWX]

It was fun for a few minutes! Nice to see some flakes. 
 

Next 10-14 days look really anomalous and promising. Can’t wait to see it devolve into some northern stream dominated mess and I have to watch the beach boys get 460”. Make our climo great again!

[calculus1]

There’s genuinely light snow falling at my house right now, without any radar returns overhead. It’s tiny flakes with a few large ones thrown in every now and then. This might be enough flakes for me to more satisfactorily call it a trace.

Zero accumulation, though.


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