I have to admit, this is the earliest I've seen flurries in the last few years. Not counting last years snowicane, I rarely see flakes before my birthday on Nov 15. Maybe this is a sign that longer, badder, and nastier winters are coming? At least I can hope.

Snowing pretty hard in Deep Creek. Currently 26 degrees and coming down. Ground is white but roads are just wet. Ahhhhh... October!

Just saw a forecast for Mount Mitchell- low of 16 tonight, high of 29 tomorrow. Snow both days, windchills down to THREE BELOW ZERO. Now, in the middle of January a three below zero windchill is **yawn**, but this is NC, this is late October, and they're not even going to have a high breaking freezing.

Murphy mentioned that Mount Leconte has already been down to 13 earlier this month. And here in KC this morning was nice and frosty- it was probably one of the nicest dry cold temperatures I've felt in two years (certainly didn't feel much of it last year!). I really, really hope Mother Nature isn't pulling another fast one this October. I really, really hope that NOAA proves as adept at predicting the winter as they did at predicting hurricanes. Time will tell!

ps- Brad 22 posts to go. No cheating! You should see the chick that jumps out of the congratulations cake!

So I guess one word posts don't count eh?


Ohhhh a girl will actually be attracted to me for once, even if she's paid to do so!!!