C-Stepper
04-24-2005, 19:14
I hope everyone is playing it safe out there!
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/2342294p-8720277c.html
"Hikers Dave Skelly, 51, left, and his son Dave Skelly Jr., 19, of Ogdensburgh, N.Y., try to hitch a ride to Gatlinburg, Tenn., as snow falls at the North Carolina and Tennessee border. The pair were hiking the Appalachian Trail to Maine. "
Per our local news, http://www.wral.com/news/4410756/detail.html
N.C. Mountains Catch Tail Of Midwest Winter Storm System
<TEXT id=txt_posted>POSTED:</TEXT> 5:07 pm EDT April 24, 2005
<!--startindex-->LINVILLE, N.C. -- A weather system that brought up to a foot of rare spring snowfall to the Midwest swiped its tail across western North Carolina, dropping one to seven inches of powder in the mountains.
By midday Sunday, five inches of snow had fallen on Grandfather Mountain near Linville, and accumulations reached half a foot near the northern Tennessee line, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Anita Silverman.
"It ranges anywhere from just around an inch close to the foothills to six to seven inches by the Tennessee line," Silverman, from the NWS office in Blacksburg, Va., said. "Mostly it's the ridgetop and the higher elevations that have gotten the higher amounts." <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
More was expected as the day progressed, and the weather service issued a snow advisory for the northern North Carolina mountains through Sunday evening.
"It could be another inch of new snow before it starts to pull out," Silverman said.
On Grandfather Mountain, the low dropped to 16 degrees overnight and winds reached 139 mph. Average April snowfall at the mountaintop weather station is 3.78 inches, but this month's total has reached 10.25 inches.
High temperatures for the region were running about 25 degrees below normal for this time of year -- more than a month after the first day of spring -- and similarly unseasonable cold was reported across the state Sunday.
"It's pretty unusual," Silverman said. "It's getting late enough in the year that it's significantly below normal temperatures."
The cold snap was part of a storm system that dumped up to a foot of snow on parts of the Midwest on Sunday, knocking out power to thousands of customers and postponing a Major League Baseball game for the second day in a row.
Officials in the national parks and forests in North Carolina said they had no immediate reports of problems among backcountry enthusiasts who might have headed out to the woods despite the weather warnings.
"Hopefully they were prepared, because this was definitely well advertised," Silverman noted.
Temperatures were expected to begin climbing through Monday, with highs reaching more or less normal levels by midweek.<!--stopindex-->
Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press (http://www.wral.com/news/2455821/detail.html). All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/2342294p-8720277c.html
"Hikers Dave Skelly, 51, left, and his son Dave Skelly Jr., 19, of Ogdensburgh, N.Y., try to hitch a ride to Gatlinburg, Tenn., as snow falls at the North Carolina and Tennessee border. The pair were hiking the Appalachian Trail to Maine. "
Per our local news, http://www.wral.com/news/4410756/detail.html
N.C. Mountains Catch Tail Of Midwest Winter Storm System
<TEXT id=txt_posted>POSTED:</TEXT> 5:07 pm EDT April 24, 2005
<!--startindex-->LINVILLE, N.C. -- A weather system that brought up to a foot of rare spring snowfall to the Midwest swiped its tail across western North Carolina, dropping one to seven inches of powder in the mountains.
By midday Sunday, five inches of snow had fallen on Grandfather Mountain near Linville, and accumulations reached half a foot near the northern Tennessee line, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Anita Silverman.
"It ranges anywhere from just around an inch close to the foothills to six to seven inches by the Tennessee line," Silverman, from the NWS office in Blacksburg, Va., said. "Mostly it's the ridgetop and the higher elevations that have gotten the higher amounts." <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
More was expected as the day progressed, and the weather service issued a snow advisory for the northern North Carolina mountains through Sunday evening.
"It could be another inch of new snow before it starts to pull out," Silverman said.
On Grandfather Mountain, the low dropped to 16 degrees overnight and winds reached 139 mph. Average April snowfall at the mountaintop weather station is 3.78 inches, but this month's total has reached 10.25 inches.
High temperatures for the region were running about 25 degrees below normal for this time of year -- more than a month after the first day of spring -- and similarly unseasonable cold was reported across the state Sunday.
"It's pretty unusual," Silverman said. "It's getting late enough in the year that it's significantly below normal temperatures."
The cold snap was part of a storm system that dumped up to a foot of snow on parts of the Midwest on Sunday, knocking out power to thousands of customers and postponing a Major League Baseball game for the second day in a row.
Officials in the national parks and forests in North Carolina said they had no immediate reports of problems among backcountry enthusiasts who might have headed out to the woods despite the weather warnings.
"Hopefully they were prepared, because this was definitely well advertised," Silverman noted.
Temperatures were expected to begin climbing through Monday, with highs reaching more or less normal levels by midweek.<!--stopindex-->
Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press (http://www.wral.com/news/2455821/detail.html). All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed