2026 Foothills thread

[wncsnow]

1 minute ago, WNC_Fort said:

Maybe a positive sign? I’m currently snow. They’re tiny flakes but flying everywhere

Let me go look

[wncsnow]

Just light sleet/ZR here

[strongwxnc]

Returns are starting to be more SW then east.


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[BooneWX]

Well. 21/16, wet bulb of 19…. The sleet/Zr mix continues and I can officially say I have a glaze. Plants coated and the concrete has become a skating rink. 

[calculus1]

I’m not sure which is making me sweat more:
A. The potential for icemageddon, OR
B. Watching Alex Honnold free solo Taipei 101 on Netflix.

20.2/14, light IP/ZR


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[WiseWeather]

Ill be ok as long as the power stays on so i can watch this fight card tonight.


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[wncsnow]

26/20 light sleet/zr mix continues. Looks like a break soon

[strongwxnc]

Diamond dust right now. 

[BooneWX]

Can’t believe it but I have sleet mixed with snow right now 

[wncsnow]

Short range is still really dry until that main band moves through tomorrow. NAM, RAP, and even HRRR are generally under .50 until then. 

[strongwxnc]

Every echo that comes in so far has been snow like diamond dust. Currently under one now.

[wncsnow]

Dry air is winning the battle. We barely have a glaze

[BooneWX]

Diamond dust here as well! Fun to watch fall. Down to 19/15!! 

[BooneWX]

28 minutes ago, wncsnow said:

Short range is still really dry until that main band moves through tomorrow. NAM, RAP, and even HRRR are generally under .50 until then. 

.5” with slow rates is nightmare fuel

[Moonhowl]

27 F and nothing coming down at the moment in East Avl.

[wncsnow]

1 minute ago, Moonhowl said:

27 F and nothing coming down at the moment in East Avl.

I don't think we see more than freezing drizzle overnight at this point. Moisture goes poof as it hits the Smokies. 

[calculus1]

8 minutes ago, BooneWX said:

Diamond dust here as well! Fun to watch fall. Down to 19/15!! 

I didn't think I had anything falling, but I saw your post, so I went out to check. Same stuff is falling here. It's either diamond dust or diamond mist. Hard to say, but mist feels wrong at this temp.

18.3/15

[strongwxnc]

And just like that complete gaze over everything outside!


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[wncsnow]

I cant remember a "winter storm" where the first precip fell at 3 pm and at 10 pm there was less than .10 of anything. Weird.

[calculus1]

I think it really is diamond dust. All the road surfaces are completely white now, from the "snowfall", not from sleet accumulation and not like an ice glaze.

[strongwxnc]

I think it really is diamond dust. All the road surfaces are completely white now, from the "snowfall", not from sleet accumulation and not like an ice glaze.

Sounds like a trace


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[calculus1]

13 minutes ago, strongwxnc said:

Sounds like a trace 

Absolutely! I will call this a trace. Maybe even 0.1 inch now!

Just got back from a Jebwalk. 18 degrees with a NE wind and diamond dust in the face is fierce.

Sleet began to pick back up as I returned to the house. It is kind of mesmerizing to just stand and listen to it. Unlike snow, which tends to fall so silently and puts a strange quiet over everything, sleet makes noise. You can hear when it increases in intensity and when it slacks back off. Winter weather is as fascinating as it is confounding to predict.

[WiseWeather]

Everything is quickly turning white here in Lenoir


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[calculus1]

Orientation of the precipitation on radar seems to be changing now. More SW to NE and less E to W. I think this will lead to the precipitation rates increasing for those of us east of the Apps.

[calculus1]

My iPhone13 doesn't have the greatest camera, but you can faintly see the diamond dust in the streetlight. (I had to reduce the video quality to get under the 2 MB threshold.)

 

[Ernest T Bass]

Got the same micro flakes, mixed with sleet and probably freezing drizzle.  It's really peppering down whether is shows on radar or not.

[Ernest T Bass]

29 minutes ago, calculus1 said:

Orientation of the precipitation on radar seems to be changing now. More SW to NE and less E to W. I think this will lead to the precipitation rates increasing for those of us east of the Apps.

Yep, and radar returns look to be growing down toward Greenville - Spartanburg.