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.

01/04/2026

Good Sunday morning,

Here is your weather in 30 seconds!

We hope you had a blessed Saturday, Forecast is available for your viewing pleasure.
01/04/2026

We hope you had a blessed Saturday,

Forecast is available for your viewing pleasure.

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

Quite mild over the next 10 Days...be prepared!
01/03/2026

Quite mild over the next 10 Days...be prepared!

It's time for that first look at your Sunday weather.
01/03/2026

It's time for that first look at your Sunday weather.

We hope you are having a blessed Saturday, Forecast has been updated and is ready for your viewing pleasure.
01/03/2026

We hope you are having a blessed Saturday,

Forecast has been updated and is ready for your viewing pleasure.

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

10-Day forecast is being updated as we speak...The big story coming up is warm weather for next week. Average high tempe...
01/03/2026

10-Day forecast is being updated as we speak...

The big story coming up is warm weather for next week. Average high temperatures are in the upper 40's this time of the year, we may have some afternoon's coming up 20-or-more degrees. ☀

Earlier this week there was a lot of talk scattered about social media about snow potential just after the start of the ...
01/02/2026

Earlier this week there was a lot of talk scattered about social media about snow potential just after the start of the new year. That was due to some long range deterministic data that proved to be quite inaccurate.

As you can see on the European ensembles, very few of the 50 total members are even registering a trace of snow during the next two weeks. That stinks for snow lovers but that looks to be how we are starting 2026. Still plenty of winter season to go, hang in there!

Want to know the temperature in your area in real-time?Visit the Foothills SkyNet page on our website!
01/02/2026

Want to know the temperature in your area in real-time?

Visit the Foothills SkyNet page on our website!

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

01/02/2026

Good Friday morning,

Here is your weather in 30 seconds, sponsored by Blue Ridge Energy and Chick-fil-A Morganton

Some rain chances coming up Saturday but otherwise, a mild 10-Day forecast
01/02/2026

Some rain chances coming up Saturday but otherwise, a mild 10-Day forecast

It's time for that first look at your Friday weather...
01/02/2026

It's time for that first look at your Friday weather...

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