The Asheville snow curse continues. At this point its become predictable. Yesterday and last night they were calling for snow and even this morning when I got up they were calling for 1 to 2 inches of snow here. But as usually we got a big whole nothing. I saw a couple of flurries this morning but that was about it. I think we actually had even more in the way of snow flurries back at the end of October than we did today. Every time it supposed to snow here we either get nothing or well below what is predicted. There are factors that play into this of course but you think that National Weather Service would have caught on by now. With my self soon to be a Meteorologist I understand why they always forecast the snow as they would rather be wrong in forecasting to much snow than be wrong by forecasting to little snow. But in doing so you get tons of peoples hopes up that end up just getting dashed. Though for once I was actually hoping it wouldn't snow as I have leave here tomorrow for Thanksgiving and didn't want to have to deal with any possibility of road troubles. So I can't really complain to much but I know there have been some bummed people wondering around campus today. I have even talked to one guy who skipped his classes today in protest of the no snow.
As I said there are factors that play into this occurrence. The case with the past storm is that the moisture just wasn't there like they thought it was going to be. Being located in the mountains causes issues too. Some of the more common ones are that the mountains block the moisture from getting in here and in some cases the mountains will actually divert the precip around us instead of over us. Asheville being in a valley and therefore at a lower elevation than other places near by means we tend to run a little warmer so there are several occasions were the rain doesn't change to snow as quickly as predicted. There are other factors as well but those would probably just confuse most people so I wont mention them. Unfortunately for us snow lovers this will probably always be an issue. We will just have to sit back and wait for the perfect storm to come along. Who knows maybe it will come this year. I hope so anyway.
As for me I am heading to Charlotte for Thanksgiving. My parents are going to be in PA so this year it will just be me and my sisters celebrating Thanksgiving. William is going to his dad's place for Thanksgiving so he won't be there either. After break I only have two weeks of school left before I am finish. The semester went by fast though I can't complain I am ready for Winter Break. Then begins my final semester of college and it's about time.
|| Vespere Hesperian 2:48 PM
