Via NWS: A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect Saturday morning until 1PM Saturday afternoon for area near, along and NW of the BRP. This includes Wintergreen Resort, Love and Montebello areas of the higher elevations.
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 1 PM EST SATURDAY URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
910 PM EST FRI JAN 2 2015
AUGUSTA-ROCKINGHAM-PAGE-WESTERN HIGHLAND-EASTERN HIGHLAND-
NORTHERN VA BLUE RIDGE-CENTRAL VA BLUE RIDGE-WESTERN PENDLETON-
EASTERN PENDLETON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…STAUNTON…WAYNESBORO…HARRISONBURG…
HIGHTOWN…MONTEREY…BIG MEADOWS…WINTERGREEN…CIRCLEVILLE…
FRANKLIN
910 PM EST FRI JAN 2 2015
…WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 1 PM
EST SATURDAY…
* PRECIPITATION TYPE…SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN.
* ACCUMULATIONS…LITTLE TO NO ACCUMULATION OF SLEET. LESS THAN
A TENTH INCH OF ICE ACCUMULATION.
* TIMING…SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN WILL BEGIN EARLY SATURDAY
MORNING AND TRANSITION TO JUST FREEZING RAIN AFTER SUNRISE.
FREEZING RAIN WILL THEN CHANGE OVER TO RAIN BY MIDDAY AS
TEMPERATURES WARM.
* TEMPERATURES…IN THE LOWER 30S.
* WINDS…EAST 5 TO 10 MPH.
* IMPACTS…ICE ACCUMULATIONS ON ROADWAYS AND SIDEWALKS WILL
RESULT IN HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SLEET AND
FREEZING RAIN WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR
SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES…AND USE CAUTION WHILE
DRIVING.
™2014 Blue Ridge Life : Photos By BRLM Photographer Shay Munroe : Clint Van Zandt, former FBI profiler and hostage negotiator, prepares for an NBC Network live shot from his Wintergreen, Virginia studio located in his home there.
Wintergreen
Nelson County, Virginia Portions by Jennie T Willams If you live near or frequent the Wintergreen area you may have seen a face and thought, “Where do I know this man from?” On page 32 of our January 2015 issue of Blue Ridge Life Magazine we tell you about Blue Ridge Bureau G-Man, Clint Van Zandt. Clint spent an entire career in the FBI, most notoriously known as an analyst by helping discover the unibomber’s identity.
Click above to read our writer Jennie William’s story about Clint Van Zandt in our January 2015 issue now. Scroll down for more pictures and background in our web story.
Photo By Tommy Stafford: After our interview with Clint at Devils Backbone back in early December, he holds up one of the books he’s most recently written.
After commuting to D.C. for more than a decade, the drive (which could take more than two hours each way) got to be a bit too much for Clint, who spends most of his time in his Fredericksburg home. So the NBC station he worked for offered to put a studio inside his home office – complete with lights, camera, and the action! – and when his family began spending more and more time in their Wintergreen home, it wasn’t a huge step to put a studio in the new house as well.
Screenshot courtesy of MSNBC: Left NBC newsman Chuck Todd gets anaylsis from Clint Van Sandt during a breaking news situation carried by the network.Clint Van Zandt prepares for a live shot back to NBC News Headquarters from his mini studio at Wintergreen Virginia.
“I’d get calls with fast breaking situations and there’s nothing fast breaking about news in Wintergreen,” he said, adding that he’d often have to make the long drive into D.C. on a moment’s notice if he was needed. “But now what the studio in my house in Wintergreen lets me do is take a phone call, get a little bit of information about what’s going on, thrown a coat and tie on, drop myself in front of a camera, flip the lights on and I am live from 3,500 feet at Wintergreen all the way to 30 Rock in New York.”
But the biggest reason Clint comes to Wintergreen is to get down time from the hustle and bustle of the TV news analysis and an aggressive speaking circuit he keeps. Above Clint and his wife Dianne enjoy a hike along the AT not too far from their home at Wintergreen.
To read more about Clint Van Zandt, pick up our January issue of Blue Ridge Life Magazine going out on stands everywhere, now or click on the electronic magazine version up above.
Nelson County, Virginia
A very Merry Christmas to everyone from all of us at Blue Ridge Life Magazine. Hard to believe we’ve been with all of you, our readers, going on 10 years. Next year we celebrate our 10 year anniversary! (more on that later)
For now, thank you so much and again a very Merry Christmas!
Memphis, Tennessee & Schuyler, Virginia
Enjoy this special radio interview from the December 2011 Christmas season as Nelson native Earl Hamner, Jr. talks with BRL Publisher Tommy Stafford and Memphis KWAM 990 Radio host, Earle Farrell. Listen for over an hour as Earl reminisces about his career, life in the Virginia Blue Ridge and more. Toward the end he reads a special Christmas tribute remarking about the late Will Geer who played Grandpa Walton.
Wintergreen Resort
Nelson County, VA
Winter officially began at 6:03 PM EST on Sunday – December 21st. And, it certainly was feeling like the season up at Wintergreen Resort. Skiers and boarders took advantage of some newly made and groomed snow on the weekend heading into Christmas.
In addition to the initial slopes that opened over Thanksgiving weekend, several other slopes including The Highlands opened over the weekend.
The old store with lots of history brought back lots of the charm and some new things as well, like this past weekend’s bazaar.
People look over all sorts of crafts this past Sunday – December 7, 2014 at The Batesville Market’s Art Bazaar that featured work from Albemarle & Nelson County.
The next big event coming up at The Batesville Market is the Buzzard Hollow Boys CD release party on December 13th. Click on the market’s facebook posting above for more details.
Via NWS: A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY is in effect from 9PM Monday night until 8AM Tuesday morning for areas along and near the BRP in Central Virginia.
Winter Weather Statement
Statement as of 4:33 AM EST on December 09, 2014
…Winter Weather Advisory is cancelled…
The National Weather Service in Baltimore MD/Washington has
cancelled the Winter Weather Advisory.
Temperatures have risen above freezing.
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
544 PM EST MON DEC 8 2014
EXTREME WESTERN ALLEGANY-CENTRAL AND EASTERN ALLEGANY-AUGUSTA-
ROCKINGHAM-SHENANDOAH-PAGE-WESTERN HIGHLAND-EASTERN HIGHLAND-
NORTHERN VA BLUE RIDGE-CENTRAL VA BLUE RIDGE-HAMPSHIRE-MORGAN-
HARDY-WESTERN GRANT-EASTERN GRANT-WESTERN MINERAL-EASTERN MINERAL-
WESTERN PENDLETON-EASTERN PENDLETON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…FROSTBURG…CUMBERLAND…STAUNTON…
WAYNESBORO…HARRISONBURG…HIGHTOWN…MONTEREY…BIG MEADOWS…
WINTERGREEN…MOOREFIELD…BAYARD…MOUNT STORM…PETERSBURG…
ELK GARDEN…KEYSER…FORT ASHBY…CIRCLEVILLE…FRANKLIN
544 PM EST MON DEC 8 2014
…WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS
EVENING TO 8 AM EST TUESDAY…
* PRECIPITATION TYPE…WINTRY MIX OF FREEZING RAIN…SLEET AND
SNOW.
* ACCUMULATIONS…A TRACE TO A COUPLE HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH OF
ICE. SNOWFALL AROUND AN INCH.
* TIMING…LATE THIS EVENING INTO TUESDAY MORNING.
* TEMPERATURES…AROUND 30.
* WINDS…NORTH 5 TO 10 MPH.
* IMPACTS…ICING ON ROADWAYS COULD RESULT IN HAZARDOUS TRAVEL.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW…SLEET…OR
FREEZING RAIN WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR
SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES…AND USE CAUTION WHILE
DRIVING.
URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
539 PM EST MON DEC 8 2014
…LIGHT WINTRY MIX THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT…
.AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE NORTH ALONG THE EAST COAST
TONIGHT. PRECIPITATION ON THE WESTERN FLANK OF THE SYSTEM WILL
ENCOUNTER COLD AIR OVER THE ADVISORY AREA AS A MIX OF SNOW…
SLEET WITH A FEW POCKETS OF FREEZING RAIN.
MONTGOMERY-CARROLL-FLOYD-CRAIG-ALLEGHANY VA-BATH-ROANOKE-
BOTETOURT-ROCKBRIDGE-PATRICK-FRANKLIN-BEDFORD-AMHERST-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…BLACKSBURG…GALAX…FLOYD…
NEW CASTLE…CLIFTON FORGE…COVINGTON…HOT SPRINGS…ROANOKE…
SALEM…FINCASTLE…LEXINGTON…BUENA VISTA…STUART…
ROCKY MOUNT…BEDFORD…AMHERST
539 PM EST MON DEC 8 2014
…WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EST TUESDAY…
* LOCATIONS…VIRGINIA COUNTIES BORDERING THE BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY
FROM THE NORTH CAROLINA BORDER NORTH TO AHMERST COUNTY…AND
WEST INTO THE NEW RIVER VALLEY…AND ALSO PARTS OF THE SOUTHERN
ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS.
* HAZARD TYPES…MAINLY SNOW AND SLEET…A FEW POCKETS OF
FREEZING RAIN.
* ACCUMULATIONS…SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATION OF UP TO 1 INCH…
HIGHER ELEVATIONS BETWEEN AMHERST AND BATH COUNTIES MAY HAVE 1
TO 2 INCHES. ISOLATED TRACE AMOUNTS OF ICE.
* TIMING…600 PM THROUGH 800 AM.
* IMPACTS…LIGHT COATING OF A WINTRY MIX ON ROADS…PARKING
LOTS…AND SIDEWALKS. ELEVATED SURFACE SHOULD BECOME SLICK
FIRST.
* WINDS…NORTH 5 TO 10 MPH.
* TEMPERATURES…IN THE LOWER 30S.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW…SLEET…OR
FREEZING RAIN WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR
SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES…AND USE CAUTION WHILE
DRIVING.
Lovingston
Nelson County, Virginia
Floats, fire trucks, a miniature car driven by a fake dog, free hot chocolate and delicious soup, and Santa Claus brought the cheer this Sunday afternoon in Lovingston. Everyone got in the spirit on a beautiful sunny, cool day at the annual Nelson County Christmas Parade. Our Shay Munroe was there to capture all of the sights!
Check out her complete album below on our Facebook page. It contains dozens and dozens more!
