Allegheny Mountains Weather

 

Jan 31.                  min.        max.          avg

Bitt 2NW valley  0.8         43.1        21.9

Garrett College   3.2         44.9        24.1

Can-Heights        1.5         40.2        20.9

CRN-Canaan       4.2         42.0        23.1

Cabin Mt             0.8         37.0        18.9

Cabin Mt north  2.1        39.0         20.5

Spruce Knob       0.9       34.2         17.6

Snowshoe/S.C      3.0       37.6         20.3

Can-Valley Floor -6.3      42.8        18.2

Cresaptown          11.0    39.6         25.3

Green Bank Obs   3.7      40.8       22.2

7Springs                6.9      45.2        26.1

Skies were clear and calm gor a lengthy period overnight, allowing temps to drop, some clouds were moving in just before dawn. Limiting the eclipse view. Cloudy during the morning with skies breaking in the afternoon.

Snowfall, from 6pm last night until 9pm, Bitt 2NW valley picked up .2 snowfall. Season Total at 66.7″

Temps at Bittinger 2nw Valley (only through 1pm, will add full day when I can) and temps from Cabin Mt 4350, aka Bald Knob. As well as temps nationally this afternoon

 

January at Bittinger 2nw Valley

January vs average across the nation

Temp graph put together by Dave Lesher from January 2018

Temps locally in Garrett ranged this afternoon from near freezing at Savage Mt to 40s wv/md line. I always think of this as the “Garrett County Equalizer” . What I mean by that: The western areas of the county, Keysers Ridge, Snaggy Mt, Cranesville area, do much better with upslope snows. Over the course of a winter, this area likely doubles what Savage Mt recieved despite nearly the same elevation, and not much in the way of downslope. There are instances with upslope at times this does not occur, but not often. As the west areas will outsnow this area of Savage Mt, The Savage Mt area will remain colder afterwards when the return SW flow kicks in. Today is a good example and these photos will help illustrate that

The 3km nam which does well at modeling this.

 

some snippets of actual numbers today.

Canaan, Valley Floor along Timberline Rd fell to -6.3° below 0 this morning

Below is a sunrise pic by Vernon Patterson along the Blackwater this morning

A social media pic by Canaanchaga, sunset at Canaan this evening

2 pics below by Eric Furr. The first is sunrise from Bartow this morning, the 2nd is a sunset pic from Jerusalem Hollow, Randolph County

 

Pic below by Steffi Hone, sunrise,  looking towards Judy Gap and North Fork Mt

Pics below by Mindy Armstrong, at Sinks of Gandy and one of Spruce Knob Lake

 

Pics below by Justin Harris at Canaan