Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Update: Another cold front on the way for the mountains

Sure, it's been close to 70 degrees in the Triangle lately, but some good news may be on the way for the North Carolina mountains -- where cold weather means active ski slopes.

"Forecasters issued a heavy snow warning Tuesday for the high mountains of North Carolina as a storm moved in from Tennessee," according to the Associated Press.

" 'The area of snow is just moving through east Tennessee and will be approaching the border counties in the next hour and a half,' National Weather service meteorologist Blair Holloway said about 9 a.m.'The heaviest accumulations are expected to be above 3,000 to 3,500 feet' with lesser amounts in valleys, Holloway said.

Holloway added that snow wouldn't begin to accumulate until afternoon and 2 to 5 inches could fall along the mountainous Tennessee-North Carolina border.

1 comment:

M. Lail said...

Well, the snow has reached the mountains.

From the Wed. Asheville Citizen-Times ...

"Some parts of Western North Carolina got more than 5 inches of snow Tuesday, forcing schools to close early and leading to dozens of collisions.

"Troopers in WNC responded to well more than 200 calls by late Tuesday evening. Many involved collisions in northern counties, Sgt. Pat Staggs said. About 100 calls are typical on a clear day, he said. ..."