Storms forming on the mountains quickly
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Yeah, those literally went BOOM!
BlueRidgeFolklore
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When everyone thinks of the mountains of NC, they just simply think of it as one big monotonous region and that couldn't be further from the truth. The difference between Highlands and Boone is greater than that between NYC and the Catskills. There is a lot of variation in climate between the 2, elevation be damned. Highlands being on the southern escarpment is known more it's precipitation because that southern escarpment from Highlands over to Hendersonville tends to wring out the most moisture coming out of the Gulf. If you want to be in an area when a classic Miller A is going to overun a cold wedge, the Highlands is your best bet because you're going to see 2ft paste bomb with flakes the size of printer paper. They don't happen very often but those Southern Mountains tend to be the sweet spot for those setups. If you want a more consistent powdery snow, then you'll want to be where NWF event out of the Great Lakes tends to manifest and that is only the Western Escarpment, facing northwest (i.e. Border Counties, Boone, etc). Latitude means just as much as altitude in these parts.
As for the snows sucking, I would venture to say that Southern WNC has had some of the best snows in the last decade in regards to singular events. I know the Highlands areas was ground zero for the 02/2015, 01/2016, 12/2017 storms and ample others over the last few years, but again the consistency is lacking.
Yep looking at the current set up we are cooked for the day
Currently 96.4 legit shot at 100 today
Agreed but with the better boundaries to the south and way west we are 100% depending on outflows. Oh well
.78 over 30 days is tough
Yeah these areas are favored heavily with storms moving off the mountains and maybe a few storms later around south CLT (similar to Saturday) it’s harder for stuff to make it farther East due to timing as seen on Friday/Saturday and Friday 2 weeks ago 
Hard to tell but the hrrr shows what looks like a weak convergence zone/sfc trough around there, maybe that’ll do it
Pretty tall, 56kft
A tad too far west. That’s Chowan River/Bertie County. Move it about 40 miles east and I’m all in.
Nasty
Nasty
Where’s the vomit button
I hope the HRRR is better with storms than it is with snow! What’s the RAP showing!
Looks like the wake county jackpot zone might heat up soon
RAP sucks, but there’s one thing I got to say, I catch more fish than you ?
GeorgiaGirl
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My guess is that those storms currently in Aiken County aren't gonna make it my way before raining themselves out and that sucks. It'll be even better if they rain themselves out and reestablish west of me. /s
Should also add, the heat index is 109. I'm not sure how we're not under a heat advisory because I thought the heat advisory criteria was just a HI of 105.
Should also add, the heat index is 109. I'm not sure how we're not under a heat advisory because I thought the heat advisory criteria was just a HI of 105.