Maggie Valley Steve

I'm personally liking what we are seeing in the medium range. So many opportunities for finally transitioning to a pattern that is typical of a slightly stronger Nino for our Region. Slow but surely that so called torch for next week is dwindling. We are close to seeing some meaningful Clipper activity. Compared to last year when I managed a couple of inches, I'll take the potential ahead.

Cataloochee Ski Area will open for the Winter 23/24 Season tomorrow morning at 9 AM!

It's going to be a very cold night. Already down to freezing here in the Valley at 5:30 PM.

31 here in the Valley. No snow, but the good news is Cataloochee has all the snow making equipment fired up from the base to the top of the mountain! Fingers crossed for a weekend opening?

I just checked the Webcam at Cataloochee Ski Area. They're getting snow flurries up at the base.

Ended up with 1.90 in the gage. Temperature is dropping from 50 down to 42 now.

Just what we needed in Haywood County. Very thankful to see over .50 inch in the rain gage this morning so far. It's breezy out and still raining.

Pattern change looking more likely as the weekend ends and the long Thanksgiving Holidays begin. Snow for Thanksgiving and beyond? It surely looks like a possibility.

Very surprised and thankful for the couple of inches that fell here in Maggie!

32 with light frost this morning in the Valley. That should do it for freezes until next weekend. We really need some rain. The longer range guidance is suggesting moisture increases just beyond mid month.

27 this morning with heavy frost again. There was definitely an inversion overnight. It was 43 up at Cataloochee this morning.

23 with heavy frost to the Valley floor.

22 this morning in the Valley. Cataloochee was 15 this morning at 7 AM. No snow making though.

After the massive leaf dump over the weekend, I spent the day getting the leaves blown and burning in the firepit before the light rain moved in behind the front. I cannot remember the last time there was such a huge dump in a 60 hour period of a wide variety of trees. Last year I was still cleaning up Poplar leaves Thanksgiving week. This year everything seemed to drop all at once. Looks like Tube World is trying for an opening this Saturday! Cataloochee should start making snow tomorrow. They are hoping for a Thanksgiving opening up on the slopes.

We hit peak in the Valley yesterday. Still a bit of green on Buck Mountain, that will be done before the weekend is finished.

Nothing better than a warm fire on a cool Fall evening!

We had about 10 minutes of pea sized hail in Maggie this afternoon. Rain began yesterday evening and it's still raining in the Valley. I've got .65 in the gauge so far. We are still about a week away from peak for the leaves here in the Valley.