Allegheny Mountains Weather

Sept 2.                         min.     max.      avg

Bitt 2nw valley        56.4      78.8       67.6

Garrett College        60.7      83.6       72.1

Can-Heights             59.7      79.7       69.7

CRN-Canaan            59.5      79.1       69.3

Cabin Mt                  61.0      77.7       69.3

Cabin Mt north       62.1      79.9       71.0

Spruce Knob           60.3       75.7       68.0

Snowshoe               63.5        76.1       69.8

Can-Valley Floor    51.6       81.0       66.3

7Springs                  65.4       79.0       72.2

Mainly clear start, valley fog. Clouds bubbling with daytime heating with some isolated showers.

Temp profile this afternoon

 

Radar plus estimates 9pm-9pm.. to not from 6pm to 9pm last evening I recorded .05 at Bittinger 2nw Valley… I drove through the slight tiny shower along Backbone Mt at 3:20pm and radar estimates show it.

Satellite

A pic of the cloud tops looking SE from The Glades area in Garrett County seeing the tops of the storm in Grant

Flow

Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow

 

Bald Knob at Canaan

Canaan Valley

Bald Knob-Canaan. Trees on top are changing. Partially due to anthracnose and leaf drop is occuring with maple, cherry. There is green unaffected areas as well. I would suspect at the top western side of Cabin Mt to be void of leaves by week 3-4 of September despite the warm pattern.

Canaan Mt. There is slight color. The most noticeable color has begun around the Canaan Mt Bog. Typical of this area. Anthracnose again has affected these maples and likely will cause premature drop in some maples, cherrys, not all… A nice crop of cranberries this year…appears to be the case at most of the bogs.

Olson bog has as well a nice crop of cranberries, little leaf color yet

View from Centennial Park along 219 Backbone Mt, mostly all green foliage dominating. As is typical this early 

Over the past summer, I have been watching the rain amounts at the Olson overlook on Backbone. Curious of the rain gauge siting, I decided to check it out. A few things from the trip left me skeptical of the accuracy of the reported amounts. While I don’t believe they are off by a great deal, they would not be 100% accurate. One, the gauge had a small branch overhead… that can cause splash, and shield some precip from entering, 2- the gauge is not plumb. I did take the time to remove the overhead small branch.

 

Canaan Valley

Plants