I'm writing this here short of 6pm....lots of chatter today from the National Weather Service office in Greer, SC, our controlling weather office here. Personally, I think Haywood County is outside any windows of concern, but when you deal with something as simple as a 1 degree difference in the weather, it will make the difference of no issues or, worse yet, someone sliding off our steep Apple Creek Road. We have to err on the side of caution as ice is The Great Equalizer: no one can drive on ice.
The GSP office upped Apple Creek into a Freezing Rain Advisory that runs from 10p tonight through 10a Wednesday. It takes very little ice to make a bad problem, hence the caution flags being hoisted. The favored window for ACA issues is 5a-7a....I am supposed to get off the mountain before 7a, so I'll be checking things outside at 5am and will post any relevant information on this blog. Any problems would dissolve by later in the morning with rising temperatures. However....
At 5:30p today, I was already down to 35 degrees on my deck, but thick in the middle of low clouds. Not the case down at the entrance to ACA with 38 and no fog. As has been the case, the BIG issues are for areas far removed from us, mainly the Triad in NC and to a lesser extent down to Charlotte and the Upstate of SC.
SOOoooooooo...not much to do except wait for the early AM report and check of temperatures and precipitation fields. Stay tuned...
Bob
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