BOONE, N.C. — Jim Cantore of the Weather Channel was in Boone Sunday as a major snowstorm makes its way across the Carolinas. Sunday morning it was snowing at a rate of one inch an hour in the mountains
"We're getting crushed," Cantore said as he stood in nearly a foot of snow. "I feel like I'm in Colorado or Utah right now."
The snow is accumulating and as of 10 a.m. the total was 11.5 inches of snow in downtown Boone.
"It's like pixie dust out here, sugar," Cantore said as he scooped up a handful of snow. "This is the kind of snow we get out in the Western states."
In Boone Cantore said there is 15 inches of snow to one inch of water. As you go down in elevation, that changes. There is 7-8 inches of snow to one inch of water.
"And then in some cases, the further south you get, it's a super wet snow and where we've got 5 inches of snow to one inch of water and that's what's causing power outages. It's a heavy, wet snow that's sticking on everything," Cantore said.
For the month of December the record snowfall in a single day is 16 inches.
"We think we're going to get there," Cantore said. "It wouldn't surprise me to get another 8-10 inches."
Of any month the record snowfall in one day is 19 inches.
"This is just unbelievable to me to get this across the deep South."
The roads are snow covered and travel is not recommended.
As Cantore was reporting live for the Weather Channel he helped a motorist who got stuck pulling out of the parking lot in Boone.