2026 Foothills thread

[Northern Foothills Snowman]

44 minutes ago, BooneWX said:

It’s absolutely dumping chicken feathers here

I like that term.  
I’m in Surry Co and it been snowing steady since around 8:30 last night. 
Nothing heavy just steady. 
Bird eye view I would say we have about 4 in. and it still snowing.Temperature is 20 degrees so that’s a 20 to 1 ratio

 

 

[BooneWX]

6 minutes ago, Northern Foothills Snowman said:

I like that term.  
I’m in Surry Co and it been snowing steady since around 8:30 last night. 
Nothing heavy just steady. 
Bird eye view I would say we have about 4 in. and it still snowing.Temperature is 20 degrees so that’s a 20 to 1 ratio

 

 

Hold it down up there on my behalf. I grew up in Mount Airy.

[BooneWX]

Who ordered some fgen? You like that snow boy?


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[Northern Foothills Snowman]

12 minutes ago, BooneWX said:

Hold it down up there on my behalf. I grew up in Mount Airy.

We’re on Haystack Road. 
Im 64 and have seen many storm. 
But I’ve never seen 3 in sleet like we had last weekend and Snow at 20 degrees. 
It’s awesome. 

[BooneWX]

14 minutes ago, Northern Foothills Snowman said:

We’re on Haystack Road. 
Im 64 and have seen many storm. 
But I’ve never seen 3 in sleet like we had last weekend and Snow at 20 degrees. 
It’s awesome. 

I know Haystack road well. This Bannertown boy used to date a girl out that way when I was in high school. 

[WNC_Fort]

Nothing like waking up to 22 degrees, a snow covered ground, and more falling

[BooneWX]

Wake up @calculus1, we’re getting smoked

[BooneWX]

Models clearly showing some containment breaking later this evening as the flow snow kicks on

[Northern Foothills Snowman]

1 minute ago, BooneWX said:

Models clearly showing some containment breaking later this evening as the flow snow kicks on

Attached is our front yard and measurement. Almost 5 in and still snowing 

[strongwxnc]

Its cold. Just got back in from feeding all the animals (Horses, Chickens and such).

23 currently with small gusts of wind. 

should be at an 1" if not more.

 

But its raking with below 1/2 mile vis 

[calculus1]

Wake up [mention=4420]calculus1[/mention], we’re getting smoked

I’m up now! It’s beautiful! Not too heavy, but so beautiful. Very light and fluffy. Somewhere between an inch and two so far. 21.3 outside. Looks like I’m on the northeastern edge of the precipitation shield right now.

[Northern Foothills Snowman]

Just dropped to 19 outside and still poring snow. ❄️ 

love it 

[strongwxnc]

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[strongwxnc]

Flakes are getting bigger


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[BooneWX]

Back to chicken feathers. Heaviest rates of the event ongoing. 

[Northern Foothills Snowman]

1 minute ago, BooneWX said:

Back to chicken feathers. Heaviest rates of the event ongoing. 

Down to 19 here and poring SNOW ❄️ 

 

[calculus1]

Yes, just turned much heavier here. This is beautiful! Pouring snow right now.

[wncsnow]

3.2 inches so far. We got under a good band most of the night near the Blue Ridge (reverse downsloping hah)

[BooneWX]

1 minute ago, wncsnow said:

3.2 inches so far. We got under a good band most of the night near the Blue Ridge (reverse downsloping hah)

Fgen just now starting to crank too

[Ernest T Bass]

Not sure when it started but woke up at 5 and already a solid coating. Snowing but not overly heavy yet, but beautiful already.

[calculus1]

It's a little scary living on the edge of this precipitation blob. If the ULL digs too far, I suppose the rates could drop significantly.

I just measured a hair under two inches so far. Based on previous posts in this thread, I'm assuming it began around 3-4 AM, so I've averaged close to half-inch per hour rates so far.

[wncsnow]

2 minutes ago, calculus1 said:

It's a little scary living on the edge of this precipitation blob. If the ULL digs too far, I suppose the rates could drop significantly.

I just measured a hair under two inches so far. Based on previous posts in this thread, I'm assuming it began around 3-4 AM, so I've averaged close to half-inch per hour rates so far.

It began here around 12:30 am but light until 2 or 3 am. 

[calculus1]

3 minutes ago, wncsnow said:

It began here around 12:30 am but light until 2 or 3 am. 

Yeah, I was going off @WXNewton's post for my start time. He's essentially 20 minutes to my south and east.

[calculus1]

Just released about ten minutes ago. So, this is on top of what has already fallen:

[BooneWX]

3 minutes ago, calculus1 said:

Just released about ten minutes ago. So, this is on top of what has already fallen:

Don’t mind if I do! 

[BooneWX]

About 2” on the ground 

[strongwxnc]

Heavy banding right now!
Wow


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[wncsnow]

Wind picking up now, went on a jeb walk. I'm afraid downsloping is about to begin here. Rates have decreased.

[calculus1]

Just now, wncsnow said:

Wind picking up now, went on a jeb walk. I'm afraid downsloping is about to begin here. Rates have decreased.

I just looked at a bit of the modeling. I'm walking a fine line between good and amazing here in Hickory. RAP, HRRR, etc. paint the heaviest westward line right at the Caldwell/Catawba Counties border.

[BooneWX]

9 minutes ago, calculus1 said:

I just looked at a bit of the modeling. I'm walking a fine line between good and amazing here in Hickory. RAP, HRRR, etc. paint the heaviest westward line right at the Caldwell/Catawba Counties border.

I think we’ll be fine. You can see the forcing to our south filling everything in. Also be wary of the Catawba County radar hole. The same one that caused GSP to miss a deadly tornado years ago.