Winter Weather — Northern Jackson, North Carolina

2016-03-20 to 2016-03-21 · Northern Jackson, North Carolina

Wider weather episode

A moist northwest flow interacted with an unseasonably cold air mass to produce snow showers across the mountains, especially across the Tennessee border counties during the afternoon and evening. Accumulating snowfall was confined to the high elevations, mainly above 4000 feet, where totals ranged from 2 to as high as 6 inches across the Smokies and the Balsams.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 621412. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.