By Jesse Wood
March 20, 2014. In just a couple hours – well, 12:57 p.m. to be exact – spring will have officially arrived.
While flowers are beginning to pop out of the ground and temps nearing 60 degrees will be prevalent Friday and Saturday, the High Country isn’t out of the winter-like woods yet – which isn’t too unusual for this area for the next several weeks.
On Monday night and Tuesday, RaysWeather.com forecasts the chance of snow, which the weather outlet quipped as a “bold defiance” to the start of spring.
RaysWeather.com, in its forecast discussion on Thursday, also mentioned that while it’s to early to know the details beyond the short outlook, the weather will be “ridiculously cold for late March.”
While the High Country experienced one of the coldest Januaries on record, the snow totals weren’t historic.
Through March 20, Sugar Mountain has had 76.5 inches of snow; Beech Mountain has had 65.2 inches of snow; and Boone has had 30 inches of snow.
See below for totals of previous years, and check out the 10-year average snow trend – both of which come courtesy of RaysWeather.com.
Boone:
- 2013-14 (so far): 30 inches
- 2012-13: 36.1 inches
- 2011-12: 13.7 inches
Beech Mountain:
- 2013-14 (so far): 65.2 inches
- 2012-13: 104.9 inches
- 2011-12: 48.7 inches
Sugar Mountain:
- 2013-14 (so far): 76.5 inches
- 2012-13: 120 inches
- 2011-12: 48.5 inches
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