[at-l] 3-day snow totals for northwest NC

[Frank Looper]

Big surprise. I bailed on the AT for now. The snow is just unforgiving, and
getting worse. Going to FLA. Anyone have some used FT maps to
sell/rent/loan?

Nightwalker

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Weathercarrot -
<weathercarrot at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  you wrote -
>
> << but I really can't believe that over 100" have fallen up there. >>
>
> over 100 inches would be everything added up since October 4-5th, not the
> depth at a given time.
>
> Here are the Beech Mtn numbers so far this season. This weather station
> there is at 5028 feet.  Roan High Knob is at 6,288 and typically gets at
> least 25 percent more than Beech:
>
> Snow Totals for Beech Mountain, NC Winter 2010-2011  *Date* *Snowfall
> (inches)*  October 5 trace  November 4-6 5.8"  December 1-2 2.2"  December
> 4-5 8.0"  December 5-7 11.2"  December 12-15 13.7"  December 19 0.1"  December
> 21 0.1"  December 23 0.1"  December 25-27 17.0"  January 5-6 2.0"  January
> 6-8 25.5"       Total Ice & Snow 87.7"  *Last Updated: 1/9/2010 at 7 PM*
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: lbooher at charter.net
> To: weathercarrot at hotmail.com; at-l at mailman.backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [at-l] 3-day snow totals for northwest NC
> Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 14:44:19 -0500
>
>
> We live in the same county as Roan Mountain---Carter Co., TN---and I know
> that the county schools have been out numerous times since Dec. 1, but I
> really can't believe that over 100" have fallen up there. A couple of nights
> ago on the news, they said that there was 24" up there at that moment. Of
> course, earlier in the week, they were worried that the warmer temps would
> bring down the Roan Mountain snow pack and cause flooding down here, but it
> didn't melt fast enough, nor did all of it melt.
>
> Down here, we've had a few inches that melt not quite all the way off
> before more falls. Today, it's so cold that it's not melting, and we're
> expecting snow tonight through Tuesday, with temps that don't reach 32º.
> Last Sunday, there was a car at the 19E trailhead, which surprised me, since
> there was snow on the ground then, too.
>
> a'bear
>
> Humankind (be both)
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> at-l mailing list
> at-l at backcountry.net
> http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/at-l
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://patsy.hack.net/pipermail/at-l/attachments/20110109/150283e1/attachment.html