On Saturday morning, the High Country woke up to April snow showers. Boone got .8 inch of snow while Beech Mountain got 2 inches of snow for a season total of 66.8 inches of snow and ice. This alert is posted on NOAA weather site:
...STRONG GUSTY WINDS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON...WITH A HARD FREEZE TONIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING... .A STRONG ALBERTA CLIPPER WILL MOVE THROUGH THE MID-ATLANTIC TODAY FOLLOWED BY A SIGNIFICANT SURGE OF ARCTIC AIR FOR EARLY APRIL. STRONG...GUSTY WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP EARLY THIS MORNING AND CONTINUE INTO THE AFTERNOON AS A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT DEVELOPS BETWEEN AN ARCTIC HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING SOUTHEAST FROM THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES AND THE CLIPPER SYSTEM LOCATED OVER THE NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC. TEMPERATURES WILL BE UNSEASONABLY COLD TODAY...REMAINING BELOW FREEZING IN HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE WESTERN MOUNTAINS AND GENERALLY ONLY REACHING THE 30S WEST OF THE BLUE RIDGE TO THE 40S ACROSS THE PIEDMONT. AS THE ARCTIC HIGH SETTLES OVER THE REGION SUNDAY MORNING...A HARD FREEZE IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION WITH LOW TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER TEENS ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS TO THE MID 20S ACROSS THE PIEDMONT.
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