October 26, 2019

Oct 26(Sat)————–[min]—[max]—[avg]—[prec]

Bitt 2nw Valley —–[38.2]—[49.7]—[43.9]

Garrett College ——-[43.1]—[50.7]—[46.9]—-[ .07]

Can-Heights

CRN-Canaan————[45.0]—[54.5]—[49.7]—[.08]

Cabin Mt.—————-[43.3]—[49.6]—[46.4]—[ .07]

Cabin Mt N.————-[43.2]—[48.7]—[45.9]—[.09]

Spruce Knob.———-[42.8]—[49.5]—[46.1]—[.04]

SnowshoK————–[43.2]—[50.5]—[46.8]

Can-Valley Floor N–[44.2]—[52.0]—[48.1]

7Springs—————–[45.7]—[50.5]—[48.1]

Cumberland AP——[46.4]—[59.1]—[52.7]

Cloudy, some fog, especially high ground fog. Banking up on the Allegheny Front. Light rain at times. East flow.

Temps today

Radar

Satellite

Flow

Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow

Pics today-

Savage Mt and Savage River area up to Dry Run Rd

Super color in many location within this area. Not as vivid around the Reservoir as elsewhere.

Deep Creek Lake area

Oaks are changing- white oaks to burgundy look, red oaks – a brown yellowish look, mixed with maples, beech, birch, hickory…overall decent color. This area never competes with the vibrant maple dominant areas for best color…IMO. That said, this is as good as this area gets and there is lots of color.

Deer Park to Kitzmiller

Really good color as you go from Deer Park to Kitzmiller. Still lots of bright, vibrant maple, burgundy oaks, some beech. A+ on color through this stretch.

Leaving Kitzmiller to Elk Garden to Jennings Randolph Lake area…

Repeat- nice color through this area. Lowlands and last foliage changing areas doing super.

Mt. Storm to Scherr to Jordan Run Rd area….

Colors past peak in the Mt. Storm area, still some color though, but head down 48 over the east side of the Allegheny Front and color galore…

Jordan Run Rd to the Sods

Nice yellow maple color going up and the oaks just over the east side, a golden brown color. Not vibrant, but full of color.

Bear Rocks at Dolly Sods

Across the top, things are pretty much bare with isolated exceptions. The heath reds are well past peak….EXCEPT this one magnificent small area that held the most vibrant, deepest, dark burgundy reds I’ve ever seen. An area just north of “Turtle Rock”. Even the reds that are 90% bare, contain enough deep red foliage on the 10% left that it still gives an ok overall appearance. But that one spot was a WOW! Definitely the focal point of the pics… Looking east over the Allegheny Front towards North Fork Mt, the foliage is great. Its not extreme on vibrance, but its A+ on everything being pretty well colored in.

And that unbelievable vibrant spot..

You’ll see when those come along…non edited color

Ok, this next shot, on the left, the reds are way past prime, center of the shot=Wow

Back focused on the wow section …did my cam exaggerate the reds? I don’t think so, as it looked fake while I was there. It looked to unreal to be real.

Now go south 30 to 50 yards, the heath are mostly bare.

Headed south on FR 75

Foliage on the trees is mostly gone, views west, mainly bare. Isolated exceptions, few brown oaks, yellow Aspen…and on south the gold tinted rust of the undergrowth beech…..

FR 19 down the east side to the Smoke Hole area..

This entire area covered in color. Not overly vibrant, but overwhelmingly colorful in dark orangish/brown colors with some brighter yellow/orange maples in the mix.