Meteorological winter officially began on Friday and the winter solstice is still a couple weeks way so the big question everyone wants to know is: How much snow will McDowell
Fire scorched several acres of brush on Mineral Springs Mountain. Read more about the response to the fire, when meteorologists expect relief from dry conditions and when burn bans could be lifted here.
Conditions are so dry in Burke County right now, officials say they re comparable to drought conditions when wildfire broke out on Chestnut Knob at South Mountains State Park in 2016.
Dry weather this fall is beginning to rear its ugly head across Western North Carolina as drought conditions has built into the region over the past few weeks.