Foothills Action Network, McDowell County

Foothills Action Network, McDowell County Foothills Weather Network is your local front row seat to weather that is going on in your community. With you before, during, and after the storm! The reason?

Foothills Weather Network is dedicated to keeping you safe before, during, and after the storm! Foothills Weather Network started in 2009 as a hobby between two friends that have a passion for weather forecasting. Seeing a gap in TV Market coverage across the foothills, Chris and Jason started using a personal page to forecast and track severe weather events. In 2010, following a very bus

y winter and severe weather season Chris and Jason quickly started looking for help to cover the weather. While doing this they developed what was then Burke Weather Incorporated. Burke Weather Incorporated became an official Non-Profit forecasting business in 2013. It still exists today and remains a Non-Profit that houses our Emergency Services Team and runs our weather education. Burke Weather Incorporated still runs solely off donations from you, the public. We brought on Tim Sawyer, Steve Wasko, Scotty Powell and Daniel Crawley to work with us. In 2015 however we decided to develop a for profit company, Foothills Weather Network. Well it was simply to be able to sell advertising and develop a way other than donations to pay the bills. Foothills Weather Network operates on a budget of a little over $1000.00 a month. Keeping our service free has been a priority since day 1. Advertisements allows us to provide you life saving weather information without costing you a dime. Contact Chris White at [email protected] to get more information on how your business can help our forecasting remain free to the public. Today we also have interns that work with us from various universities across The State of North Carolina. These interns have went on to work at Accu Weather and other weather companies across the USA. We have also brought on Sinead Lockhart, who graduated from NC State with her degree in Atmospheric Science. The newest official meteorologist though is Kyle Noel, who graduated from UNC Asheville in 2017 with his degree in Atmospheric Sciences. In May 2017 Foothills Weather Network moved into it's new office within the McDowell County Emergency Operations Center. From this state of the art EOC Foothills Weather Network can have direct contact during severe weather situations with our partners at The National Weather Service and Emergency Management from across the state. We continue to grow and expand! We appreciate the support that each of our followers give us daily. We enjoy our jobs and we look forward to serving you for many years to come.

Significant rainfall is expected this upcoming week. Be as some flooding can't be ruled out.Also, temperatures on Tues...
02/09/2025

Significant rainfall is expected this upcoming week. Be as some flooding can't be ruled out.

Also, temperatures on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings are low enough to where sheltered valley's north of I-40 could see light icing.

Here's a first look at your Monday weather...
02/09/2025

Here's a first look at your Monday weather...

We hope you are having a blessed Sunday, Forecast has been updated...visit our website for a look!
02/09/2025

We hope you are having a blessed Sunday,

Forecast has been updated...visit our website for a look!

Foothills Action Network is dedicated to making the foothills of North Carolina a weather ready location for everyone to live, work, and play.

02/09/2025

What a beautiful day it is. Get out there and get some vitamin D because the sun will go into hiding this week.

02/08/2025

Huge 7.6 earthquake in the Caribbean just now and it registered on the helicorder in South Mountains State Park. NOAA is evaluating the risk for tsunami but thankfully most of the US is shielded by Cuba and Mexico.

Weather Alert: Special Weather Statement for Madison, Yancey, Haywood, Buncombe, McDowell Mountains, Eastern McDowe...
02/07/2025

Weather Alert: Special Weather Statement for Madison, Yancey, Haywood, Buncombe, McDowell Mountains, Eastern McDowell, Rutherford Mountains

Severity: Moderate
Certainty: Observed
Urgency: Expected

At 1128 PM EST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 10
miles west of Marshall, or 6 miles south of Hot Springs, moving east
at 55 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to outdoor objects is
possible.

Locations impacted include...
Marion, Marshall, North Asheville, Black Mountain, Woodfin,
Swannanoa, Weaverville, Mars Hill, Old Fort, and Hot Springs.



Interactive Map with Radar: https://greenewx.com/maps/https___api_weather_gov_alerts_urn_oid_2_49_0_1_840_0_0c89282f233718a5f959e5b569b850a3685b278b_001_1.html

Visit www.foothillsweather.net for additional weather information

02/07/2025

The risk for severe weather east of the mountains tonight is declining. I do expect a few scattered storms to develop later tonight but these cells will be very elevated and likely will no pose much of a severe risk. Lightning and loud thunder can be expected at times though as the frontal boundary moves through.

Visit our we**am network for views across the coverage area...
02/05/2025

Visit our we**am network for views across the coverage area...

A look at various local we**ams from across the nine county coverage area. The Crawdads and Lake Jakes cams are locally operated. Other cams a property of North Carolina Department of Transportatio…

Local observations near you can be found at our website...
02/03/2025

Local observations near you can be found at our website...

Foothills SkyNet is a collaborate effort between Foothills Action Network and local Emergency Management agencies and cooperative observers to develop an extensive network of weather observation st…

Check out your latest forecast! You will like it!
01/31/2025

Check out your latest forecast! You will like it!

Foothills Action Network is dedicated to making the foothills of North Carolina a weather ready location for everyone to live, work, and play.

01/30/2025

Information from McDowell County Schools on limited bus routes for Thursday morning in the North Cove and Old Fort districts.

Third wildfire of the day has flared up, this one in the Woodlawn area close to the ridges behind Coats American.
01/30/2025

Third wildfire of the day has flared up, this one in the Woodlawn area close to the ridges behind Coats American.

North Fork Fire Update – Crews Working Overnight to Contain Wildfire McDowell County, NC – At approximately 4:00 PM, an outside fire was reported in the area of Good Road in the ...

A look at the next 10 Days... Blue Ridge Energy
01/29/2025

A look at the next 10 Days... Blue Ridge Energy

Even though winds are expected to slow down tomorrow, the fire danger remains very high across the entire region. Hoping...
01/29/2025

Even though winds are expected to slow down tomorrow, the fire danger remains very high across the entire region. Hoping the upcoming rain showers will help improve conditions by the weekend.

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Huge 7.6 earthquake in the Caribbean just now and it registered on the helicorder in South Mountains State Park. NOAA is evaluating the risk for tsunami but thankfully most of the US is shielded by Cuba and Mexico.

Precipitation aloft is finally starting to make its way to the surface in the North Carolina mountains. Some light snow showers and flurries cannot be ruled out during the late afternoon and early evening...

Tomorrow will be one of those days where the high temperature (around 50 degrees) will be reached shortly after lunch. Then we start to drop late afternoon and plummet tomorrow night. Northwest flow snow showers will crank up in the mountains... #ncwx

At 9:15 pm, moisture back over the mountains is redeveloping and moving east. This is mostly light snow in the western tier of counties. The warm nose which surged in here around sunset is starting to retreat. Accumulation from this may add 1/2 to 1 inch across western tier.

Live Winter Storm Coverage (1/10/25, 6 pm)
Live Winter Storm Coverage (1/10/25, 6 pm)

Chris and Dan talk about the upcoming winter forecast. Feel free to submit questions in the chat...

Moisture is beginning to fill back in from Marion and west at 3:15 pm. This will move east over the next hour-plus...

Light snow and flurries continue to overspread the area at 2 pm. Temperatures will continue to drop for the rest of the day. The heaviest precipitation rates will begin to impact the western tier counties of Polk, Rutherford, Burke and McDowell by late afternoon.

Live Winter Storm Coverage
Live Winter Storm Coverage

Chris and Dan talk about the upcoming winter forecast. Feel free to submit questions in the chat...

Live: Winter Storm Update (1/9/25), 9:30 pm
Live: Winter Storm Update (1/9/25), 9:30 pm

Chris and Dan talk about the upcoming winter forecast. Feel free to submit questions in the chat...

Our weather team continues to monitor this winter storm that is progged to come in tomorrow. We will be doing additional live updates around 9 pm or so as the latest guidance rolls in.

Happy New Year to our followers across western North Carolina. We look forward to continue serving you with the most accurate weather forecasts in 2025!

A line of severe thunderstorms are moving into Upstate South Carolina at 6:35 am, rapidly to the northeast. These storms could reach portions of Polk and Rutherford Counties after 8 am.

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