Check out the perfect snow line that Mardie Drolshagen captured 📸 this morning for her home in Stecoah!
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This is why we say, “mostly above 3,500 feet” in snow events like this.
@WLOS_13
#wncwx
#snOMG
After 7 straight days of looking at models, multiple hours/day, analyzing everything from the top to the bottom….the time has come.
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For all meteorologists like me to
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Pray 🙏
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Pray that the snow and ice will come.
Some consider 13 to be an unlucky number.
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For me, I’ve been lucky enough to call the Western Carolinas “home” now for the past 13 years!
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I look forward to many more!
@WLOS_13
My family and I received great news today. Hudson's MRI results came back and there are no signs that the cyst on his brain has changed! It remains stable, and that is a VERY good sign.
Thank you everyone for the thoughts and prayers!
#relief
**EARTHQUAKE**
Many of you have already felt it... a significant earthquake took place near Sparta, N.C. this morning around 8:07 AM. It registered (preliminary) as a 5.1 on the Richter Scale! Property damage is possible closer to the epicenter.
#wncwx
#ncwx
#news13
*WINTER STORM UPDATE*
Be ready for some BIG flakes and quick accumulation, even some thunder snow later tonight!
This is about as tricky as they get around here. Borderline temperatures, upper-level dynamics and warm ground are nightmarish stuff for forecasters.
#wncwx
#avlwx
Here is my FIRST CALL snow totals... subject to change!
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If there's ONE thing I can be 100% sure of.... it's NOT going to be anything like the blizzard of '93 folks.
#wncwx
#avlwx
#ncwx
#scwx
My wife bought me suspenders and a bow tie to make *sure* I celebrated Valentine’s Day properly 😁❤️
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I’m not normally a bow tie/suspenders guy, but I don’t mind the look 🤔
Banner Elk is a winter wonderland this morning! ❄️❄️🥶🥶
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Thanks to Whitney Davis for the 📸
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Many in
#WNC
experienced their first flakes overnight into this morning. 👏
#wncwx
#NCwx
#snOMG
The first picture is from the Burnsville area.
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The second is Wolfpen Mountain near Waynesville.
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Some getting a winter wonderland, others nothing but a few flakes of that.
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Welcome to WNC microclimates!
@WLOS_13
#wncwx
#avlwx
#snOMG
During hurricane season, people seem to grasp the uncertainty in a long-range forecast (more than 3 days out). Not sure why this doesn't apply to winter storms.
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Most of the time, meteorologists don't even have a storm to track that far out, unlike a tropical storm.
**CONFIDENCE GROWING ON MAJOR WINTER STORM**
**Please start your preparations for significant snow and wintry mix. This will be a dangerous storm, impacting a large population with high probability of crippling snow totals.**
#wncwx
#avlwx
#snOMG
#news13
Meteorological winter ends today.
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It will go down as one of the least-wintry winters on record in Asheville!
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4th-warmest overall and tied for least-snowiest.
#wncwx
#avlwx
#NCwx
My family and I received great news today. Hudson's MRI results came back and there are no signs that the cyst on his brain has changed! It remains stable, and that is a VERY good sign.
Thank you everyone for the thoughts and prayers!
#relief
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Let’s stop with the sarcastic “0-60 inches” snow meme that gets put out there, every time a meteorologist says there’s too much uncertainty to feel confident about putting out snow totals.
*WINTER STORM UPDATE FOR
#WNC
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Latest models are indicating that more MIXING will reduce overall totals in most areas.
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Here are the latest, most likely totals
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Nothing has changed in terms of the impacts this storm will have overall!
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Avoid travel tomorrow if possible.
You've likely noticed that sun is setting a little later these days.
We're gaining daylight more quickly now that we're into February.
February 3rd will be our 1st sunset at 6PM or later since November 6th!
Who's ready??!!
#wncwx
#avlwx
Most buy bread and milk in preparation for a big snow.
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Our weather team prioritizes a bit differently 🤔😁
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It’s going to be a long haul this weekend! ❄️⛄️🌬
#snacks
#sweettooth
#snOMG
#wncwx
#avlwx
*BREAKING*
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This would mean everyone would stay on DST year round.
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Most of the year occurs while we're on DST.
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It now has to pass the House by vote.
Stopped by to check in on
@WxRobBradley
after his most recent surgery. He’s in good spirits, and anxious to get back on his feet!
Please keep him and his fiancée in your thoughts.
#recovering
#onthemend
Models are coming together for a potentially, significantly disruptive southern snow storm.
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Still a lot of details to work out, but you can start preparing by planning ahead!
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Travel impacts will be likely (by air & ground) this weekend.
#wncwx
#avlwx
#scwx
#ncwx
An unexpected 6” of snow fell overnight back home in Southern Illinois.
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My sister shared this picture with me!
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This is most unusual for this time of year there. ❄️😱👀🌨🤯
#ILwx
#snOMG
#forecastwasforflurries
**RUMORS OF A MAJOR SNOW STORM**
It's already "out there" so I thought I'd better address it now (thank you social media).
YES, snow is looking more likely next Saturday, December the 8th.
YES it could be a...
If you’re planning on visiting any local waterfalls this weekend, BE EXTRA CAUTIOUS!
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This was Looking Glass Falls earlier today, near Brevard!
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Video: Hudson Nuovo
#wncwx
@natwxdesk
Getting calls into our newsroom from folks claiming they felt an earthquake around Asheville.
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Anyone else feel anything??
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I'm checking
@USGS
for any update, but nothing so far.
#earthquake
#wnc
#avl
Coming into work
@WLOS_13
early today to get a head start on this weekend’s winter storm!
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I’ll have our ‘First Call’ snow totals for you soon!
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Bottom line….it’s going to be a significant storm for the Western Carolinas.
#wncwx
#avlwx
I work with some amazing people, and it showed this weekend throughout our winter storm coverage!
Great work by *everyone*.
Video courtesy of: Dave Saich
@WLOS_13
Excessive rainfall continues to be our biggest threat from
#Ian
.
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Isolated flooding and/or mudslides will be an increasing threat into Saturday, possibly lasting into Sunday.
#wncwx
#avlwx
#NCwx
#SCwx
Here's where we stand at this point on the Snowman Meter.
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We'll likely have our 'first call' snow & ice totals at some point tomorrow on
@WLOS_13
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#wncwx
#avlwx
This weekend will usher in the first cold snap of the fall season!
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First frosts will be likely in many areas around
#WNC
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@WLOS_13
#wncwx
#avlwx
#NCwx
Photojournalist Ken Corn and I are up bright and early to head to
@CLTAirport
for the
@NHC_Atlantic
Hurricane Awareness Tour. We’ll be bringing you stories about this coming hurricane season & talking to the brave men and women who fly into the eye of the storm!
#news13
Congratulations Cashiers, NC. You now have the highest total snowfall for this storm. A whopping 18"!!!! That was measured just outside of town.
#snOMG
#news13
#wncwx
#ncwx
I'll jump on the Chinese balloon bandwagon.
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Here's our best guess on where and when the balloon will be through Saturday.
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Looks like your chances of spotting the balloon are slim overall, but look up if you're in the SWn Mts. or Upstate early Sat. morning!
#wncwx
#SCwx
Me reading the excitement in all the Twitter posts from social mediaologists about possible snow this weekend in the South, knowing how poorly prepared Southerners are for snow. 🤦♂️
This late week wintry threat looks to be near zero now for the Western Carolinas.
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We’ll be watching for any changes in the coming days, but confidence is high this winter be much of anything.
#wncwx
#avlwx
Saharan Dust is spreading across the Atlantic Ocean. This is important to track as it helps limit the strong masses of thunderstorms that typically lead to tropical storm and hurricane formation. Look for some spectacular sunsets in the coming days!
#wncwx
#tropics
Aerial view of the ongoing wildfire near Pigeon Forge, TN, in the Wears Valley area of the
#GSMNP
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Fire is now as large as 250 acres per the Sevier County Emergency Management Agency.
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More here:
With so many asking me if it's going to snow for Christmas (again, we don't know just yet).... anyone out there NOT wanting a white Christmas?
#wncwx
#NCwx
#avlwx
#snOMG
A TV and Weather legend has ended his broadcast career tonight.
@WeAreSinclair
's Steve Pool has been a Seattle staple for more than 40 years! Congratulations Steve.
Eye-popping sunset from Kathy Burrows!
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Wildfire smoke from Canada is making for more brilliant sunsets and sunrises lately.
#wncwx
#avlwx
#NCwx
#blueridgemts
Just your average, ordinary January 1st.
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Playing catch with my son in shorts. 😱🔥🥵
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One would find it hard to believe that ❄️ is on the way tomorrow, but it is!
#wncwx
#avlwx
#ncwx
So this just happened in Linville Gorge, NC. My son is hiking there. Guess Tom Cruise getting some Top Gun: Maverick promos going in the NC mins 👀🤣🛩
#jets
#linvillegorge
#TopGunMaverick
Here I am, on vacation with my family and I am reading the horrible comments some people are leaving the station in regard to the severe weather coverage this evening.
First off, we are obligated to break in...
Hudson was born 7 weeks premature, and my wife and I are grateful every day for the selfless devotion of the nurses and doctors at Mission Hospital’s N.I.C.U.
#prematurityawarenessday