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.

Good Saturday afternoon, Morning clouds have thinned out and that’s going to yield a nice day across the region with tem...
08/09/2025

Good Saturday afternoon,

Morning clouds have thinned out and that’s going to yield a nice day across the region with temps below normal for the time of year. Enjoy!

Another cloudy, drizzly morning greets us. We are stuck in this pattern with the jet stream so far away. Hopefully there...
08/08/2025

Another cloudy, drizzly morning greets us. We are stuck in this pattern with the jet stream so far away.

Hopefully there will be a few more glimmers of sunshine as we get later into the day.

Good Friday morning, Here are your weather headlines for the day! Chick-fil-A Morganton
08/08/2025

Good Friday morning,

Here are your weather headlines for the day! Chick-fil-A Morganton

We hope you had a blessed Thursday, You can find the forecast just a click away!
08/08/2025

We hope you had a blessed Thursday,

You can find the forecast just a click away!

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

We hope you are having a blessed Thursday, We have updated the weather forecast. You can find it just a click away!
08/07/2025

We hope you are having a blessed Thursday,

We have updated the weather forecast. You can find it just a click away!

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

Good Thursday afternoon, We have a mix of clouds and a little bit of sunshine across the region allowing temps to be in ...
08/07/2025

Good Thursday afternoon,

We have a mix of clouds and a little bit of sunshine across the region allowing temps to be in the mid 70’s.

Showers will be limited to the mountains this afternoon.

We hope you had a blessed Wednesday, Weather forecast is available...
08/07/2025

We hope you had a blessed Wednesday,

Weather forecast is available...

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

A look at the next 10 Days, where we will return to summer-like weather. Blue Ridge Energy
08/06/2025

A look at the next 10 Days, where we will return to summer-like weather. Blue Ridge Energy

It's time for a first look at your Thursday weather...
08/06/2025

It's time for a first look at your Thursday weather...

We hope you are having a blessed Wednesday, Weather forecast has been updated and will be available...
08/06/2025

We hope you are having a blessed Wednesday,

Weather forecast has been updated and will be available...

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

Do you like recording weather conditions as a hobby?Join one of the largest public crowdsourcing communities in the worl...
08/06/2025

Do you like recording weather conditions as a hobby?

Join one of the largest public crowdsourcing communities in the world today, CoCoRaHS!

We are in need of weather observers across the western Carolinas, joining CoCoRaHS would be right up your alley! All you need to do is visit https://cocorahs.org , purchase a rain gauge and create a free account to submit precipitation amounts daily!

Your reports goes to help agencies such as the National Weather Service, local emergency management, local media and the general public.

First visible satellite images of the day is showing our cold air damming regime slowly breaking down. A little sunshine...
08/06/2025

First visible satellite images of the day is showing our cold air damming regime slowly breaking down. A little sunshine has manufactured itself this morning in our western locations.

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