Canaan Cam offline
Feb 27(Wed) min. max. avg
Bitt 2nw Valley
Garrett College
New Germany SP
Can-Heights
CRN-Canaan
Cabin Mt
Cabin Mt north
Spruce Knob
Snowshoe
Can-Valley Floor
Can-Valley Floor N
7Springs
Mainly sunny day, light SE winds for much of the day, keeping some locations cooler. Clouds light, and a sprinkle after nightfall
Temp profile this afternoon and one evening snippet
Radar void until late day sprinkles
Satellite
Flow
Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow
Pics today…. The time of year the higher sun angle melts off the open areas faster and the milder day somewhat in the wooded areas. The wide open areas in large are bare. Wooded areas light cover, north facing and sheltered areas, a solid cover(Bittinger 2nw Valley) a solid 2-5″ cover. Despite 40s today, low dewpoints held, and the shaded areas pretty well remained solid(as seen in video below)
Want to document the 9 sandhill cranes seen and photographed by Kathy Handyside near The Glades, Foxtown area near Bittinger today
The winter pattern…. A like year, not exact, but a like year resembles the winter of 1948-1949
The SST anomalies- Likeness, warmth east of the dateline at 30N and extending west. Cooler anomlies east. This year very similiar except the warmth north of this area towards southern Alaska is more pronounced.
Cooler waters off the west coast. This has evolved this season. The anomaly was more extreme in 48-49. Likely making the pattern more stubborn.
This cool pool extends back to Hawaii. With the very cold air into Canada, plus this Pacific setup, favors a trough holding into the west. As seen especially the 2nd half of winter. This year, there was a lot more cold air in play vs 48-49 winter…
With more cold air in play, the next feature to talk about is the SE ridge. That feature was much like the 48-49. The difference was we had more cold air in play this year. This big ridge, like a boulder in a river, sent systems up to our west. With cold highs passing north, we seen a lot of these systems as overrunning systems which affects the eastern areas from Mt. Storm, north central Garrett and points east and northeast. Really leaves the Wv high ground with minimal winter. As non snowy as this year has been, it’s ahead of 48-49, the least snowy winter recorded at Canaan. The overall Atlantic configuration is very similiar.
The enso has like features as well, as well as to cool waters that developed east of Australia. The enso, mjo often failed to jive this year to typical correlations .
So, with all these like(not identical) features in the sea surface temps, what did the overall winter of 48-49 look like vs this year(Dec-Feb).
More cold in play this year, as evident by northern New England vs 48-49. Enough cold in the pattern for the north, northeastern areas and the lower elevations east of the mts to be in the cold zone for these over running events.(color code is different)
In general, the overall pattern is a lot alike the 48-49 season with some variances.
Allegheny Mountains Weather 