Blue Ridge Blizzard

The upper photo is the Discovery Center covered in snow. The lower one is the volunteer RV area .

These photos were taken this morning by June Shaw who with her husband, Ron, has been a volunteer here at the Cradle of Forestry for three years. She took these great photos around the Discovery Center and RV area today.

We woke up this morning to snow, lots of it. The low temp overnight was 29 F.and the conditions were right for snow fall as the cold front rolled over the Blue Ridge at a pretty good clip.

The picture of our car and the motor home tells it like it is. There is an accumulation of at least 1.5 inches. We were told that snow like this has not happened here in a long time and we are about three weeks early for the first snow in these mountains.

It snowed for most of the morning and at least twice we had “white out” conditions as we watched the weather outside the front doors of the Discovery Center. By the middle of the afternoon, all the snow, and the excitement associated with it, were gone.