'Tis the season, and this change is riding in on a freight train. From Friday night's storms and erosion-causing deluge after days of pleasantly mild days, we have the actual cold front moving through today with winds and, tonight, crashing temps well down into the 20s by Monday morning. To change out air masses that completely takes very windy conditions.
Along with that will be our first coating of snow as a strong NW flow sets up shop with bands of snow showers into early Tuesday morning. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY has been posted for Haywood County, with accumulating snow forecast. Per our typical storms, the advisory is more for elevations above 3500', which is the blue roof house on AC and up.
Technically, the advisory starts at 7pm today, but the main attraction of crystallized water won't begin until much later in ACA. The advisory runs until 7am Tuesday. I fear the strong winds may make for power outages, so keep that in mind, as well.
Down low, a solid dusting to 1/2" is likely, with 1" being a longer shot. Higher up, 1-2" should suffice when all is said and done, keeping in mind that winds will blow snow around, obscuring totals. Too, many of us will stay in the 20s all day, so whatever sticks stays.
The heavier snow amounts will occur the closer you get to the TN border...and the Smokies will bring home the bacon with 8-12" of snow closer to the 6,000' elevations.
The week sees a gradual warm-up; Monday is the "one-day wonder" this go-round. I'll update early tomorrow morning before I head down to the salt mines.
Bob
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