Maggie Valley Steve

6 months ago today our Region was experiencing what is likely the most widespread Major Weather Events in generations from Helene. Currently we continue to live with the aftermath of that Historic Event with wildfires burning across our Mountains. Hopefully our very dry and dangerous wildfire conditions will relax next week with a chance of some beneficial rainfall. I hope all of our neighbors are doing well!

I ended up with a half inch of measurable snow, but it took about 4 hours to finally begin to stick. My low was 24 this morning. It's beginning to look like an active pattern with a rather vigorous Eastern Trough persisting into early April. The impact the the stratospheric Polar Vortex collapse in early March is being felt.

Ground is covered to the Valley floor. I'll call it moderate snow with very little wind.

It's starting to lay on the decks and vegetation. Temperature down to 34 now.

Flurries at the house and 38.

Flurries at Cataloochee now.

I started out this morning at 57. Rain moved in around 8AM and the temperature slowly dropped to 48 and stayed there until an hour ago. Clouds have now moved in and the deck is lowering with temperature falling quickly to 40 currently. Radar returns are showing up along the border as well as E TN. Cataloochee should have flurries shortly.

The short term Mesoscale Models are advertising we may see some minor accumulations of snow tomorrow night, particularly for the Smokies. GSP grids suggests the even here in the Valley an inch ou two is possible.

No snow flurries in Maggie as far as I know. It's chilly though. The models indicate perhaps a better chance Thursday night for the Mountains and possibly the Valleys. The ensembles suggest we may return to a cold phase next week as well.

Looking like we're shifting to a heavy rainfall threat and some gusty winds in the heavier thunderstorms early in the morning. Temperature has dropped to 56 here at the house.

The Heavy Rainfall threat has increased, particularly for the SW Mountains this afternoon into tomorrow morning.

Time to watch carefully for a severe weather potential along with the possibility of heavy rainfall Saturday afternoon into early Sunday.

First 70 of the year today! What an amazing beautiful day it has been!

It must be almost Spring!

Really surprised to see a dusting down to the Valley floor this morning. There definitely has been a lot of wind blown snow. It's actually very powdery and blowing off the driveway.