Local Yokel Weather 

Good afternoon folks! Rainfall totals are below our forecasted totals for Friday into Saturday evening with a few locations hitting the 0.75" mark, but most of the region only picked up 0.25 - 0.5" of rain over the 36 hour period. Drier air is moving into the region as of Saturday afternoon and we'll notice shower coverage scaling back to isolated showers tonight, extending through the day on Sunday. It won't be fall - like but we should end the weekend on a nice note with mo

Good afternoon folks! Hurricane Laura, now Tropical Storm Laura, was an historic storm with wind speeds tied for 5th all time for land-falling hurricanes (150mph), combined with catastrophic surge along the SW Louisiana coast and inland as far as 30 - 40 miles! Remnants of Laura will be sliding to our north early Saturday, close enough to bring us strong winds and when combined with high moisture levels and SW flow, we expect a health round of rain to fall Friday evening thr

Good afternoon folks! All eyes are on Hurricane Laura as rapid intensification is expected over the next 24 hours before making landfall along or nearby the TX/LA state line. As of Tuesday afternoon the models push remnants of Laura just to our north Friday into Saturday and while (for the moment) our region looks to avoid high winds, we are likely to end up with a wet start to the weekend. Shower chances return Thursday but only scattered coverage is expected, increasing to

Good afternoon folks! Our previous forecast of a dry and mostly sunny start to the work and school week evaporated over the weekend as the overall setup has shifted just enough to keep shower chances alive for both Monday and Tuesday. It seems we'll deal with more clouds than sun on Monday, alongside scattered showers and thunderstorms, followed by a slow decline in both cloud cover and shower coverage on Tuesday. This sets up Wednesday to possibly be the driest day of the we

Good afternoon folks! Quite a bit of rain has fallen since Wednesday morning, with a report of 5" along the escarpment out of Rosman and a whopping 5.46" in Cullowhee from a heavy downpour. Elsewhere across SW NC rainfall totals are in the 1 - 2" range for a good portion of the region, with several stations closing in on 3" across the Southern Highlands Plateau. We'll pick up more rain this evening but the widespread coverage should scale back beginning Saturday, with a round