October 17, 2019

Oct 17(Thur)——–[min]—[max]—[avg]—[prec]]—

Bitt 2nw Valley ——[36.6]–[44.5]—[40.5]

Garrett College——-[36.8]–[46.0]—[41.4]

Can-Heights

CRN-Canaan———-[33.6]—[45.2]—[39.4]—[.12]

Cabin Mt —————[30.0]–[37.2]—[33.6]—[.34]

Cabin Mt N ———–[30.7]–[40.4]—[35.5]—[.14]

Spruce Knob ——-[28.0]—[34.8]—[31.4]–[.02-froze]

Snowshoe

Can-Valley Floor N-[34.7]–[47.1]–[41.4]

7Springs

Cumberland AP

Overnight snow Wv high ground. Ground stickage mainly above 3900-4000, with brief stickage to decks, mulch beds, roofs 3500-3800.. below that no stickage. Very windy. High ground fog, which also led to some rime forming.

Temps today

Radar

Satellite

Flow

Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow

Pics today-

Canaan Mt.

Sticking here was minimal, as I left at 6:30a.m there were traces on some roofs and around a few trees.

Dave Leshers report at Davis 3SE, Canaan Heights

Bald Knob at Canaan

Up the Bald Knob trail, traces of snow began 3800-3900, then around and above 4000′ or so, white was more dominant. Rime ice coated the tops. It appeared some time rime formed, then temps ran 32.2 at the Bald Station awhile overnight, I think that partially melted the rime that had formed, then it refroze. That’s what looks like happened. Snowfall appeared around 1/2″ to 3/4″ on top. Foliage, while there is nice but scattered foliage down lower, and vibrant , up top pretty well resembled winter with only a few trees with any foliage .. All in the area even with the yet nice color is Past Peak. Lots of bare trees…lots

Headed towards the knob, Spruce Knob that is…..first

Dropping down from Canaan, to Harman (nice color with the tops on fog and rimed white, hard to tell on pics)across 33 at the Allegheny Front and by Seneca Rocks. Once on the east side, color is spotty with lots of green…

Headed on up, headed on up 🎵🎵 ….. 🌨🌨 to Spruce

Up the route to Spruce, the road was littered with debri, mainly small twigs, leaves from yet green oak trees, until about the halfway point or so, then maples begin transitioning in and taking over and some lower had nice color yet, but the top 1/3 was mainly bare before the transition to spruce with some vibrant exceptions… Snow, it began around 4000′ +/- here as well. Roughly 1-1.25″ of snow on top. Mainly on the top east side as the winds were extreme on the west side. ..

Back to Canaan

Top of the southern side of Weiss Knob with rime and light snow coat, as well as Cabin seen from Freeland Rd. The lower section of Cabin Mt to the north of Whitegrass had super color, peak on that side.

Deep Creek Lake to Bittinger area

Deep Creek Lake area, still blotches of nice color, overall with the oaks, it’s a green theme. Nice colors along lower end of Cherry Creek. Back towards Bittinger, few remaining nice patches of maple, lots of bare trees, some green oaks, and some yellows remain on the birches. All about the tree type.