October 16, 2019

Oct 16(Wed)————[min]—[max]—[avg]—[prec]

Bitt 2nw Valley

Garrett College

Can-Heights

CRN-Canaan

Cabin Mt

Cabin Mt N

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

7Springs

Cumberland AP

Cloudy, rainy, falling temps….rain to some snow, icy snow pellets after dark, Wv high ground

Temps today

Radar

Satellite

Flow

Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow

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Bittinger area

Best colors here are the remaining maples. Lots are down and some green oaks remain, rusty dry hickory, birches are half up, half down… still bright yellows in them, beech are changing and the rain today helped saturate the remaining color.

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Backbone Mt(north of Thomas) to Thomas

Tree type is heavy maple weighted along this route and tall mature trees are mainly bare with a fair amount of understory color, some maple, birch beech. The understory actually looks pretty nice

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Blackwater Canyon

The birches that provide the golden yellows through the canyon are in full go mode. Its peak. Its pretty good and they are contrasted by some maple reds in areas also. Overall really good and tonight’s rain really set the colors off. Grade A colors tonight.

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Up Canaan Mt from Davis to Canaan Loop Rd

Still some nice color along 32, on top and especially on top back the loop Rd, in large its bare, but patchy vibrant trees. Along 32 isnt bad at all though, some vibrant colors.

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FIRST FLAKES, FIRST FLAKES

Throughout the areas high ground, first flakes, icy pellets began to fly tonight. First frozen precip I witnessed was at 7:44pm on Canaan Mt at 3800′. This was more of a icy snow pellet type deal, then some actual snow flake activity later