843wx Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Snowtober in SW Virginia...LOL Wise and Norton both reporting 8 inches on the ground as of 930 am per NWS ..Much higher amounts at High Knob and the High Chaparral community. http://www.mcs.uvawise.edu/webcam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Snow flurries in Carrboro just before 11am!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chapelhillwx Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Snow flurries in Carrboro just before 11am!!!! Really??? Any way to get pics? I hate Greenville sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WFFaithful Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 LeConte is up to 17" with their morning post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Really??? Any way to get pics? I hate Greenville sometimes. I tried to get some video but not sure what will show up. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sctvman Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Nice cool day today. Way below our average. Normal at airport is 74, airport is still stuck at only 51, a degree below our average low for the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennedy Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Snow flurries in Carrboro just before 11am!!!! Are you sure??????????? Maybe you should ask a met !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjames1992 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Snow flurries in Carrboro just before 11am!!!! Are you sure? KIGX was 46F at 11 AM. If the warm layer is thin enough, I suppose it is possible, though. Temperatures last night were pretty disappointing here. We never got even close to going below 40. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 LOL Ok it looks like it was a bad report on my part in terms of the snow. I will upload the video and you will see how real it looked. There is some stuff blowing all over town that looks like flakes but they are not melting. Styrofoam or something. However the thickenesses are low enough but yes the BL is warm. However flurries were seen in Henderson and Oxford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoWeatherman Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 LOL Ok it looks like it was a bade report on my part in terms of the snow. I will upload the video and you will see how real it looked. There is some stuff blowing all over town that looks like flakes but they are not melting. Styrofoam or something. However the thickenesses are low enough but yes the BL is warm. However flurries were seen in Henderson and Oxford. Good one. I was hallucinating earlier also. I went up to check on the progress of some framers working on a barn and I saw some tiny stuff floating in the air. I confirmed it when I saw that tiny stuff hitting my windshield and then blowing in the wind. Then I got a clue and realized it was sawdust from the framers saws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CandymanColumbusGA Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Good one. I was hallucinating earlier also. I went up to check on the progress of some framers working on a barn and I saw some tiny stuff floating in the air. I confirmed it when I saw that tiny stuff hitting my windshield and then blowing in the wind. Then I got a clue and realized it was sawdust from the framers saws. We saw a gust of 30 mph last hour in Columbus. Crazy winds all day/night/day long so far and another 24 hours or so of it! Amazing wind field! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormsfury Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 A few days ago I pondered about whether to see if late season tropical cyclones reaching that far north so late in the season was a completely unique event (well Hurricane Sandy in my mind is very unique, and without precedent in regards to barometric pressure, and storm surge. The left-hook into New Jersey created the same channeling into NJ and NY states much like Katrina in 2005. I believe the 946mb pressure after Sandy was declared post-tropical makes this the lowest pressure reading for a direct landfalling non(post)-tropical storm in the Contiguous 48 States on record. Anyways found some surprising late-season and later in the season TC's landfalls, including two very late season tropical cyclones not counted that struck Canada in late November, and one that went post-tropical on Dec 1 in the late 1890's. I will make a separate post with the research later today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 In my defense this would fool a lot of people: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chapelhillwx Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 That does look realistic... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stovepipe Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Drove up to SW VA from Knoxville yesterday afternoon. Hungry Mother State Park was beautiful as the snow started coming down. Got into some heavy blowing snow outside of Wythevile at dusk. Turned around and spent the night in Abingdon where they got about 4 inches over night. The wind was howling but the flakes were tiny. It was fun experiencing snow in October! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCSNOW Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 I'm sensing a bust on the snow totals in NC and WV. Maybe I'm wrong but I just don't like the way the radar is looking. Well it delivered or still is deleivering as I type. Check out the MA thread. Beau chased and is in WVA awesome pics from up that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoWeatherman Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Well it delivered or still is deleivering as I type. Check out the MA thread. Beau chased and is in WVA awesome pics from up that way. Yeah I've been looking at Beau pics. Pretty amazing up where he is. I just thought the radar would look more impressive in NC and WV mountains than it did. I do know that some lower elevations got the shaft because of the lighter returns but obviously not the choice up slope areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griteater Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Some big totals showing up along the NC/TN border... NORTH CAROLINA ...AVERY COUNTY... ELK PARK 14.0 142 PM 10/30 COUNTY OFFICIAL ...HAYWOOD COUNTY... 10 NW COVE CREEK 24.0 1100 AM 10/30 PARK SERVICE ...MADISON COUNTY... FAUST 24.0 1100 AM 10/30 EMERGENCY MNGR ...MITCHELL COUNTY... BULADEAN 12.0 1100 AM 10/30 SPOTTER. STILL SNOWING. ...SWAIN COUNTY... NEWFOUND GAP 22.0 1230 PM 10/30 NWS OFFICE BRYSON CITY T 1256 PM 10/30 LOCAL POLICE ...TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY... 3 ESE CRUSO 5.0 1223 PM 10/30 PUBLIC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavarreDon Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Snow pics from the am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavarreDon Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 A few more am snow pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Ridge Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Snow fell but did not stick anywhere below around 2,500 ft in my neck of the woods. The lowest temperature observed IMBY is 34F, which explains a lot. Credit to MRX for their skepticism; even a system as unprecedented as Sandystein could not overcome the warm ground temperatures shown on the GFS and NAM. As for QPF, I'm well over an inch and a quarter since Saturday afternoon, and a chunk of that came last night. The disparaging radar returns we saw last night did not account for the "squeeze" the mountains placed on the atmosphere. As disappointed as I am that snow did not pan out for those of us below 2,500 ft, I am content with the bitterly cold air and wet conditions today. Snow or no, cold and wet is my kind of weather. Outside of my backyard, observations indicate that across Unicoi and Carter counties, the cutoff between significant snow and none at all is quite sharp. Generally, 8"-12" have fallen between 3,000 and 4,000 ft, and significantly more has fallen above that threshold. Sam's Gap was shut down for at least a portion of last night; TN 107 through Limestone Cove was the scene of multiple wrecks and as a result was also closed. I drove to the state line on TN 395 past Rock Creek Park around 9:30 last night and enjoyed white-out conditions and a solid 5" of snowcover. I noticed that the first few inches was comprised of wet, thick snow, but the top layer was quite dry and powdery, blowing around at will (and more importantly was not conducive to snowball-making). The lowest my thermometer dropped while there was 30F, which is generally warm enough to warrant heavy, wet snow. Fortunately, I believe this limited tree damage in an area that was decimated by the continual severe weather this summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N. OF PIKE Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 if newfound gap reported 24 inches than mt. leconte (6400') must be around 30 . the innkeeper has a blog "high on mt. leconte" she's been updating with photos but i know that leconte squeezes out more precip in nw flow then new found gap so ....they may get 40 or so at leconte. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Ridge Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Latest snow totals, per MRX on Facebook: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAC Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 if newfound gap reported 24 inches than mt. leconte (6400') must be around 30 . the innkeeper has a blog "high on mt. leconte" she's been updating with photos but i know that leconte squeezes out more precip in nw flow then new found gap so ....they may get 40 or so at leconte. High onLeconte reports "almost 3 feet and still coming down" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solak Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 NWS website problems... * * * * * * Technical Note * * * * * * * Tue Oct 30 2012 16:05:36 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) A cut fiberoptic line belonging to a commercial phone company has disrupted websites serving the Easter Region. As this issue is being resolved, we are now operating our websites in backup mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAD Addict Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Even though the actual totals were not overly impressive, the wind whipped up some incredible drifts in places. Here you can see a car surrounded by a snow bank on my road: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilkesboroDude Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Rain Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Where'd Virginia go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tacoma Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 boy what a dud. west asheville saw some flakes but nothing at all on the ground and the snowflakes were few and far between. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilkesboroDude Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 boy what a dud. west asheville saw some flakes but nothing at all on the ground and the snowflakes were few and far between. I knew NWS Greenville was out to lunch with their accumulations east of the mountains when NWS Blacksburg issued their first map...Greenville had 0.5 or more in the foothills. They immediately cut down totals to zero upon the next map. Conservative Blacksburg is good when it comes to winter weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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