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thats a good haul! i'm curious do you know how much SOCO gap got?

I’m at neels gap and it’s snowing really hard hard ground is white

i agree. Woody Gap is always money for me. i may wind up there myself this evening or tomorrow am, per my daughter. But i hate to go anywhere when there might be flakes at my own house. will be a lot less, but there's nothing like flakes imby.

low of 52 degrees yesterday morning in N. Ga and i'm at 1500 elevation. I suspect you guys in low 40s? anybody see 30s?. I bet whatever it was it felt downright cold

Pulling for you guys, Tyler, Met, Bucket, Moto, etc. This forum is where i come to extend my snow season. I am actually very happy with this winter as we got almost 6 inches where i am here in N GA, but its always fun to track April snow. I usually make one last trip up that way in April, but guess this year is a good one to stay home, so will be pulling for you and watching next week or so. I pray we are all spared bad wx Sunday.

Half inch on the deck in Dahlonega

I really don’t know how to act. I seem to be in the bullseye in Lumpkin county

North ga near Suches. Covered ground white.

the two things i read pretty much every day are Ray's weather and this thread, since i have so many good memories of trips up the high country. I think i might be overthinking it, but sometimes i get confused by the geographic markers in his forecasts, such as the 1) western ridge toward the TN state line, 2) the blue ridge, and then 3) the blue ridge escarpment. My guess is if i'm trying to draw a map is that 1) is just what it says, like maybe for example soco gap up to beech mountain area, and 2) is right along the blue ridge parkway, and 3), is further south and east toward the SC line? If someone has a map that shows all 3 of these regions or lines i would appreciate it.

darn ;-) . but i was asking for NC because we might be up that way Sunday morning. I had heard about a changeover Sat night, but hadn't heard about Sunday night, thought it was all out. But i'm guessing you're talking about NW Flow not really connected to whats going through now. Based on this we might hang around Sunday night after we get our Christmas Tree.

Anything sat night on the back side of the rain?

I made the weather channel. Crazy storm came through Isle of Palms Thursday and I took a video of umbrellas bouncing down the beach. All in all I'd say they lost about 50 umbrellas just along the stretch where we were staying. At the end of the storm, the wind was blowing in the opposite direction. Below is a screenshot of the video. IMG_8995.HEIC

forgot to give a shoutout. among all the things i looked at (including looking at radar, other posts, and actually trying to look at the HRRR on an iphone se) this is the post I saw when i was making the decision to head up the mountain to Highlands or just continue up 441 and go to Maggie Valley.

Wound up at 5400 at the entrance to Mile High Campground just off the Blue Ridge Parkway above Maggie Valley, and measured 4 inches of snow in one spot Saturday around 6pm. And i think it snowed another inch or so that night (based on what we saw at Soco Gap on Sunday) but can't vouch for that. All i can say is I was in light to mostly moderate to sometimes heavy snow from about 10am until after 8pm Saturday. it was amazing the difference in a couple hundred feet of elevation. While heavy ground (grass/tree) covering snow at 5400, almost nothing at 5000 (at least Sat during the day). Also learned a good lesson. Always bring sleeping bags, etc, even when its April 20 and you think you just might just chase to Highlands or something, because plans may change, and you may find yourself locked behind the gate at Soco gap above Maggie Valley on the Blue Ridge Parkway at 5000 feet in the dark at 8:30 with snow pouring. Also, pay attention to mile markers so you can tell someone exactly where you are if you have to call someone. I won't go into all the details, but we made it down, and I am thankful to whoever was in the silver Tundra? that showed us a back way off the parkway. What's odd is that when we went back Sunday, there was an additional gate that was closed that was not closed Saturday night. if that second gate had been closed i guess we may have had to camp overnight in the truck! My daughter actually enjoyed the excitement, so that was good, and it actually was a rush, but I'm just glad i didn't learn this lesson in say January or Feb!

Pouring snow plott balsam overlook on blue ridge parkway

thats pretty cool looking

i'm watching this myself for my little meteorologist in my family Moto, so please keep updating, and if you could slide that map over toward highlands or maggie valley a bit i'd appreciate it! I guess i could look myself, but you are the man. and yes. about 3.5 inches of rain between midnight and noon here. crazy. clay creek falls is wild. Question, is this going to be convective type snow with the big fluffy flakes? heck its even fun to get under small hail in these setups if this is that kind. Also was orig thinking if we go anywhere we'd go tonight, but timing wise Ray seems to indicate the snow levels will be dropping more Sat evening.

don't be too jealous, I haven't had snow imby in NE GA since Dec 2017. I did see snow few weeks ago heading through the upstate, but not till after Greenville. The good thing is, the older i get, the quicker summer comes and goes . (but also i guess winters seem quicker too on the other hand, but I'll worry about that next year).

this is crazy. i'm actually thinking "when is this winter going to end", only because I know i'm going to be tempted to do another road trip! I had seen this on TT, but started getting excited when I saw Met1995 post about it and Moto too. Some other things that are lining up. my iphone weather app had snow icon for Saturday in Suches, Ray has been talking about it, and now WXSouth. Sheesh.

man, not sure exactly what this means, but i can't stop reading it from the afd. I so want to be in the deformation zone. but an advective more large scale forcing interacting with a developing Gulf/coastal low pressure system and the enhanced risk for convective banding of heavier snow within the northern deformation zone. Given the possible liquid equivalent moisture and snow to liquid ratios upwards of 12:1 /possibly higher at times/...a band could quickly dump a few inches within an hour. Some high res models that resolve convective processes explicitly are indicating multiple bands...though some discrepancy on exact location.

according to peachtree city, i have the potential to get 7 inches! But... i can also expect to get AT LEAST 0 inches. This is gonna be fun.

yes. and they are fun as heck to look at as well. it really is unfair that they are expected to tell to the inch how much it is going to snow and exactly where, and that is just not possible in GA where so many things can go wrong, as opposed to other areas that don't have two oceans, and and nearby mountains to deal with. So in addition to the wiggle room, it also provides us the public with more info. Its a brilliant win-win in my mind. They ask for feedback since its experimental, and I've already given it high grades. I am curious to watch it in it first debut storm.

i think the new "at least this much, most likely, and potential for this much" winter products are going to help them out as they don't have to put out just one number and then get grilled on it, for a situation that is going to be very variable over such a large area.

ok, serious question. since this is a gulf low, is there any chance that Saturday we will be moaning about thunderstorms in the gulf robbing moisture and creating a dryslot for someone who would have otherwise got good moisture? I asked this in the main thread the other day (i thought it was a valid question) but i think it might have been considered trolling or something. Probably best to leave the storm thread for mets anyway to not clutter it up even with questions. But it just seems so many times like this when we have a gulf low and we feel confident we are going to get a good thumping (maybe not necessarily my backyard, but somebody in N. GA) and then all of a sudden there is a dryslot and i hear that the moisture was robbed by thunderstorms in the gulf. I have not heard anyone discussing this and just wondered if the this is NOT something to worry about with this storm.