by Jim Stratigos | Feb 7, 2021 | Balsam skies, Weather
This makes the fourth snowfall since Christmas and more than three weeks of some snow on the ground. It started around 6:00 PM last night and snowed steadily until early this morning. We got about 4 inches on this side of the mountain. Lexi just loves this snow and...
by Jim Stratigos | Jan 1, 2018 | Balsam skies, Weather
Happy 2018 everyone from Dogstar Observatory. It was a chilly 5 degrees F this morning. Balsam was blanketed last night with hoar frost which, while beautiful, resulted in cancellation of the highly anticipated New Years Eve party. In case you are interested, hoar...
by Jim Stratigos | Jan 19, 2016 | Weather
by Jim Stratigos | Dec 24, 2015 | Weather
This is what Licklog falls looks like after more than 3 inches of rain in the past 24 hours! ...
by Jim Stratigos | Oct 11, 2015 | Weather
Hi everyone. The Dogstar Observatory webcams and weather station are off line due to a computer problem. They should be back up next week. Jim
by Jim Stratigos | Jul 3, 2015 | Weather
A lucky shot from over 30 taken with a hand-held DSLR back on June 22nd when there was a large storm between Balsam and Waynesville. We observed about an hour of active cloud-to-cloud lightning. Sometimes referred to as ‘heat lightning’ it has nothing to...
