Wintry When will the NC mountains see their first NW flow snow event ?

[Avalanche]

Jan 4 2022

Wow. We are damned.

 

[Cad Wedge NC]

Mount Mitchel reported their first flakes today. Winter coming early to the high country.

 

[jackendrickwx]

Mount Mitchel reported their first flakes today. Winter coming early to the high country.

Not quite. Nobody was able to confirm that

 

[Cad Wedge NC]

Not quite. Nobody was able to confirm that

Yes, they had a period of mixed rain and snow late this afternoon.

 

[jackendrickwx]

Yes, they had a period of mixed rain and snow late this afternoon.

This whole thread is a great discussion on the matter. Temps just don’t support snow

 

[BirdManDoomW]

First official snow in the forecast next week.

 

[NoSnowATL]

1st-2nd week of November

 

[jackendrickwx]

 

[Avalanche]

Hard to say. Mt Mitchell will probably see it first, then Beech and Sugar, then Blowing Rock and Highlands. I will say 2nd week for Mt Mitchell and 3rd week for others. Blowing Rock/Newland and that area averages about 30 inches a year, Im sure thats on the decline.

 

[jackendrickwx]

Decent shot for Mitchell this wknd

 

[jackendrickwx]

I’ll be honest, i don’t see it. But this guy gives reliable reports, so we may have our first WNC flakes

 

[SNOWMANN]

I’ll be honest, i don’t see it. But this guy gives reliable reports, so we may have our first WNC flakes

There was definitely flurries in the air yesterday morning especially above 3500 ft along TN line.

 

[Webberweather53]

There was definitely flurries in the air yesterday morning especially above 3500 ft along TN line.

Guess I need to make a snow map for that already ?

 

[Cad Wedge NC]

There was definitely flurries in the air yesterday morning especially above 3500 ft along TN line.

So, I was one day off on my guess, but it was right on schedule for the first flakes.

 

[SNOWMANN]

So, I was one day off on my guess, but it was right on schedule for the first flakes.

Yes sir right on cue. I've seen accumulating snow on Roan first week of October think that was in 08 or 09. It's always cool to see snow with leaves still on the tree. Ive heard old timers people long gone now talk about harsh Winters back in the day. Said the ground turned white by Halloween and stayed white till spring. You'd have melt but the ground stayed white. My grandma had to dig tunnels from the front door of the house to the road up in Avery county one winter in the late 50s might have been 1960. Drifts as high as the roof no joke.

 

[LickWx]

Yes sir right on cue. I've seen accumulating snow on Roan first week of October think that was in 08 or 09. It's always cool to see snow with leaves still on the tree. Ive heard old timers people long gone now talk about harsh Winters back in the day. Said the ground turned white by Halloween and stayed white till spring. You'd have melt but the ground stayed white. My grandma had to dig tunnels from the front door of the house to the road up in Avery county one winter in the late 50s might have been 1960. Drifts as high as the roof no joke.

Probably 1960 I saw a whole thing written on that and pictures of the snow .

 

[SNOWMANN]

Probably 1960 I saw a whole thing written on that and pictures of the snow .

It was. The famous March 1960 storms is what she was talking about. She talked about the rivers freezing over for weeks at a time too.

 

[Avalanche]

I want those days back.

 

[Fountainguy97]

Doesn't get any more severe than this.




yea that's a -19 departure for an entire month.



Station data. No telling what some places really saw in the mountains.

 

[BirdManDoomW]

Snowing west of Wilkes co on Beech Mountain!