Foothills Weather Network, McDowell County

Foothills Weather 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.

We continue to have a citrus fundraiser going. Make sure and order to guarantee Christmas delivery!
12/13/2025

We continue to have a citrus fundraiser going. Make sure and order to guarantee Christmas delivery!

Good Friday afternoon, After a cloudy start to the day we are seeing more in the way of sunshine at the noon hour. Tempe...
12/12/2025

Good Friday afternoon,

After a cloudy start to the day we are seeing more in the way of sunshine at the noon hour. Temperatures currently are in the upper 30’s (north) to mid 40’s (south).

Expect to add on 5-or-more degrees through the afternoon.

12/12/2025

Some light snow flurries or graupel continues to show up on radar at 10:14 am.

Let us know what you are seeing or have seen in your neighborhood!

12/12/2025

5th grade teachers if you see snow falling it’s actually graupel, like dip and dots! great teaching moment for your weather section of study!

12/12/2025

Good Friday morning, here is your weather in 30 seconds! Sponsored by Blue Ridge Energy and Chick-fil-A Morganton

We hope you had a blessed Thursday, Weather forecast and more is available at our website. Click on the link!
12/12/2025

We hope you had a blessed Thursday,

Weather forecast and more is available at our website. Click on the link!

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Help us out with a donation or buy some fresh fruit from us! Burke Weather raised over $8,000 for families impacted by H...
12/12/2025

Help us out with a donation or buy some fresh fruit from us! Burke Weather raised over $8,000 for families impacted by Helene. Fruit orders are coming in for Burke Weather Incorporated. You can jump in fast by sending a gift, ordering fruit, or making a direct donation. https://ifundraise.com/1028903/
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Here's a look at your Blue Ridge Energy 10-Day forecast.Temperatures moderate for tomorrow and Saturday before a major c...
12/11/2025

Here's a look at your Blue Ridge Energy 10-Day forecast.

Temperatures moderate for tomorrow and Saturday before a major cold blast arrives on Sunday!

It's time for a first look at your Friday weather!
12/11/2025

It's time for a first look at your Friday weather!

We hope you are having a blessed Thursday, Weather forecast and more is being updated and is available at our website. C...
12/11/2025

We hope you are having a blessed Thursday,

Weather forecast and more is being updated and is available at our website. Click on the link!

Sponsored by…

Good Thursday afternoon, We have full sunshine today with temperatures in the lower 40’s at the noon hour. Expect the su...
12/11/2025

Good Thursday afternoon,

We have full sunshine today with temperatures in the lower 40’s at the noon hour. Expect the sun to continue shining down on the region through the afternoon. It’s going to be beautiful but on the cool side.

This relentless pattern of northwest flow is going to provide another blast of cold air late this weekend and going into...
12/11/2025

This relentless pattern of northwest flow is going to provide another blast of cold air late this weekend and going into Monday. Possibly the coldest so far this 2025-26 winter season.

While today is cold, we will warm up briefly on Friday and Saturday and then the bottom drops out Sunday. Teens expected by Monday morning, single digits in the high country. Wind chill values single digits (above and below zero) in the mountains, upper single digits and teens in the Foothills/Western Piedmont. 🥶

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632 College Drive
Marion, NC
28752

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+18286040435

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