SnoJoe Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 We have about a quarter inch of snow but with the wind everything is just blowing like crazy. Temp down to 4 degrees. Yeah I think we hit negative digits. Just went below 0 here, 0.3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 Just went below 0 here, 0.3.impressive Joe. We are down to 3 degrees know. The wind us wicked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nchighcountrywx Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Coldest of this Air Mass Starting to Move Out of NC Mountains at 850mb level, however, it's still COLD. Using minute by minute data from Mount Mitchell overnight, Mitchell attained a low of -14.3 from 1:40am this morning to 2:24am this morning. Since that time, the temperatures at the Mitchell summit level have been rising and now is +1.2f at 5:45am. See the attached spreadsheet for minute by minute observations over the last 24 hours. (Spreadsheet files are not allowed on our site so converted to *prn *txt) Similar conditions were experienced at the slightly lower elevation of Grandfather Mountain mitchell obs.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonhowl Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Bottomed out about 2.5oF IMBY not much warmer than Mt. Mitchell at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnoJoe Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Hit a low of -4.1 at 4 am but now at -1.2. Wind has calmed somewhat also, getting gust to only 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 We dropped down to negative 3 thus morning. Very impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valkhorn Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Coldest of this Air Mass Starting to Move Out of NC Mountains at 850mb level, however, it's still COLD. Using minute by minute data from Mount Mitchell overnight, Mitchell attained a low of -14.3 from 1:40am this morning to 2:24am this morning. Since that time, the temperatures at the Mitchell summit level have been rising and now is +1.2f at 5:45am. See the attached spreadsheet for minute by minute observations over the last 24 hours. (Spreadsheet files are not allowed on our site so converted to *prn *txt) Similar conditions were experienced at the slightly lower elevation of Grandfather Mountain Mt. Leconte hit -15F last night - so that sounds about right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnoJoe Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Got down to 12.2 last night before it warmed to 18.5 by sunrise. Ray is mentioning a "messy"week coming up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted January 9, 2015 Author Share Posted January 9, 2015 Got down to 12.2 last night before it warmed to 18.5 by sunrise. Ray is mentioning a "messy"week coming up.yeah weird last night. Our temp was all over the place. We ended up bottoming out at 15 degrees. Yeah this next week looks messy for sure. Really do not know what is going to happen right know. A lot of energy though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hvward Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Euro ensemble has been interesting the past few runs, but I am hesitant to buy it since it swung and missed pretty bad for our area last month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HurricaneTracker Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Euro ensemble has been interesting the past few runs, but I am hesitant to buy it since it swung and missed pretty bad for our area last month. Agreed. The big issue of late is that we seem to be always chasing a "day 8-10 storm". That is to say, the storms that are forecast never seem to get inside day 3, and if they do, they look to be all liquid (such as is the case for the Sunday night rain event now for the region). So I am putting very little faith in anything beyond about day 4, since nothing in fantasy-land is verifying and we are just not getting anything to really monitor inside that time window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted January 9, 2015 Author Share Posted January 9, 2015 Agreed. The big issue of late is that we seem to be always chasing a "day 8-10 storm". That is to say, the storms that are forecast never seem to get inside day 3, and if they do, they look to be all liquid (such as is the case for the Sunday night rain event now for the region). So I am putting very little faith in anything beyond about day 4, since nothing in fantasy-land is verifying and we are just not getting anything to really monitor inside that time window.yeah the models have been horrible in the 7+ days out. Just a wait and see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted January 10, 2015 Author Share Posted January 10, 2015 Another cold morning of 3 degrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnoJoe Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Had a low of 6.6 but it was 12.2 by sunrise. Hate to say it, but it's getting kinda' old. I need a few days of 40's to thaw. Or it could snow, which ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted January 11, 2015 Author Share Posted January 11, 2015 Had a low of 6.6 but it was 12.2 by sunrise. Hate to say it, but it's getting kinda' old. I need a few days of 40's to thaw. Or it could snow, which ever. another cold morning with a low of 11 degrees. Joe I enjoy this weather to a point.I would rather have snow on the ground than cold with bare ground. Will that change later on well who knows. Take care Joe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxBlue Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 My social media accounts blew up because I took this shot of this neat looking lenticular cloud just west of Asheville using my new Nikon, so I figured to share this picture with y'all as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jburns Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 My social media accounts blew up because I took this shot of this neat looking lenticular cloud just west of Asheville using my new Nikon, so I figured to share this picture with y'all as well Now that is a photo worth taking. Nice job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted January 12, 2015 Author Share Posted January 12, 2015 My social media accounts blew up because I took this shot of this neat looking lenticular cloud just west of Asheville using my new Nikon, so I figured to share this picture with y'all as well I agree with jburns. Beautiful shot over the mountains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calculus1 Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Beautiful shot, WxBlue! Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hvward Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Nice shot WxBlue! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jburns Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Beautiful shot, WxBlue! Thanks for sharing. It just showed up on my Twitter feed. Retweeted by Brad Panavich. We have a famous photographer in our midst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxBlue Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Thanks, y'all! The coolest part about the whole thing was that today is actually my birthday. That picture I took was the very first shot using my new 55-200mm lens I got yesterday and it was very useful to zoom in on the cloud from miles away. Guess that was a nice gift from Mother Nature It just showed up on my Twitter feed. Retweeted by Brad Panavich. We have a famous photographer in our midst. Yeah, Nate Johnson of WRAL did as well and other meteorologists from all over Southeast shared it. I had several people from my hometown Lowcounty SC asking me about it just a moment ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jburns Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Thanks, y'all! The coolest part about the whole thing was that today is actually my birthday. That picture I took was the very first shot using my new 55-200mm lens I got yesterday and it was very useful to zoom in on the cloud from miles away. Guess that was a nice gift from Mother Nature Yeah, Nate Johnson of WRAL did as well and other meteorologists from all over Southeast shared it. I had several people from my hometown Low county SC asking me about it just a moment ago You did a good job with the exposure. I've seen many similar photos where the mountains would be totally black. It's great the way it is but you could probably work it over in Photoshop and end up with something stunning. All the data is there from the darkest shadows to the brightest point in the sky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jburns Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 You did a good job with the exposure. I've seen many similar photos where the mountains would be totally black. It's great the way it is but you could probably work it over in Photoshop and end up with something stunning. All the data is there from the darkest shadows to the brightest point in the sky. This is what I am talking about when I said the dark shadow data is all there. I did a 2 minute adjustment. I didn't bother to mask for this but used a simple gradient to bring out the foreground foliage a bit. I also tweaked the exposure. Depending on your taste it could be better or worse. lol Since the clouds are the main focus the dark foreground may have been better. I was just making a point about the ability to retrieve shadow detail due to your excellent choice of exposure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxBlue Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 This is what I am talking about when I said the dark shadow data is all there. I did a 2 minute adjustment. I didn't bother to mask for this but used a simple gradient to bring out the foreground foliage a bit. I also tweaked the exposure. Depending on your taste it could be better or worse. lol Since the clouds are the main focus the dark foreground may have been better. I was just making a point about the ability to retrieve shadow detail due to your excellent choice of exposure. It helps that I took this picture in RAW file (which includes far more image data than JPEG) before editing it in Lightroom. When I was taking shots of this cloud, I intentionally did different exposures ranging from -1 to +1 and this shot was about -0.33 from Nikon with cheap CPL filter smoothing out clouds somewhat. Next thing I did was to darken the sky using gradient feature in Lightroom by decreasing exposure and increasing contrast. I also brushed lenticular cloud even so slightly darker to make it stand out in the sky. The only thing I wish that I edited out before posting online is that little dark streak hanging out on bottom left side of the lowest deck of cloud but I'm pretty happy with the sky otherwise. Foreground was even tougher because it was a bright cloudy sky, but I managed to brighten up trees somewhat without adding in too much noise. Like you said, maybe I should've add in more exposure to trees to make the foreground brighter but it's risky with the noise since my Nikon is designed for beginners. Thankfully, Blue Ridge mountains did most of work for me with natural gradient from that haze blue so I added in little touch of saturation to brighten up the blue and avoided heavy editing. Finally, I smoothed out the noise for the sky and mountains and added hint of sharpness to trees. It's a lot of work because I'm extremely picky with little details, but I'm pretty happy how this came out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jburns Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 It helps that I took this picture in RAW file (which includes far more image data than JPEG) before editing it in Lightroom. When I was taking shots of this cloud, I intentionally did different exposures ranging from -1 to +1 and this shot was about -0.33 from Nikon with cheap CPL filter smoothing out clouds somewhat. Next thing I did was to darken the sky using gradient feature in Lightroom by decreasing exposure and increasing contrast. I also brushed lenticular cloud even so slightly darker to make it stand out in the sky. The only thing I wish that I edited out before posting online is that little dark streak hanging out on bottom left side of the lowest deck of cloud but I'm pretty happy with the sky otherwise. Foreground was even tougher because it was a bright cloudy sky, but I managed to brighten up trees somewhat without adding in too much noise. Like you said, maybe I should've add in more exposure to trees to make the foreground brighter but it's risky with the noise since my Nikon is designed for beginners. Thankfully, Blue Ridge mountains did most of work for me with natural gradient from that haze blue so I added in little touch of saturation to brighten up the blue and avoided heavy editing. Finally, I smoothed out the noise for the sky and mountains and added hint of sharpness to trees. It's a lot of work because I'm extremely picky with little details, but I'm pretty happy how this came out You should be. It's an awesome shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 I have had some reports of snow across the county this afternoon. Temps running in the mid 30s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 Just saw were we have a winter weather advisory and freezing rain advisory out for most of the mountain from tonight through tomorrow morning. Could be very interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted January 14, 2015 Author Share Posted January 14, 2015 I like the next couple of days coming up. It looks like we have a chance of snow around Thursday and another chance of some NWFS towards the end of the weekend with a pretty strong cold front. All in all it looks a bit Interesting for the mountains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franklin NCwx Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 I like the next couple of days coming up. It looks like we have a chance of snow around Thursday and another chance of some NWFS towards the end of the weekend with a pretty strong cold front. All in all it looks a bit Interesting for the mountains.that one on Sunday is one to watch, if the s/w in question can dig a little more. Next week has chances too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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