November 28, 2019

Thanksgiving

Nov 28(Thursday)

A trace of snow overnight, precip was primarily light freezing drizzle, freezing mist that continued all day in the Bittinger area. Created very icy secondary roads before they were cindered. In the Wv high ground, high elevation rime was the main event, with a trace of snow, freezing drizzle mainly north. Strong winds accompanied this throughout the region, but relaxing through the day. Fires going in the Smoke Hole Canyon today.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

MIN[28.9]–MAX[35.8]–AVG[32.3]–PRECIP[.03]7am

Snowfall- trace

Season to date snowfall 5.3″

Coating of freezing rain, up to +/- a tenth west facing areas that had wind driven drizzle all day with temps at 29°

Garrett College

MIN[28.7]—MAX[35.8]—AVG[32.2]—PRECIP[0]

Tipping bucket gauge, precip recieved frozen.

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

MIN[24.6]—MAX[32.0]—AVG[28.3]—PRECIP[.02]7am

Comments by Dave Lesher

Climate Reference Network Canaan

MIN[25.7]—MAX[33.6]—AVG[29.6]

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

MIN[22.3]—MAX[28.9]—AVG[25.6]—PRECIP[0]

Cabin Mt- western Sods

MIN[23.2]—MAX[30.2]—AVG[26.7]—PRECIP[0]

Wind gust peaked at 2:20am at 64.8mph

Spruce Knob

MIN[21.0]—MAX[27.7]—AVG[24.3]—PRECIP[0]

Spruce was rimed up nicely as you’ll see in pics and video on below

Snowshoe

MIN[21.0]—MAX[28.2]—AVG[24.6]

Wind gust peak at 58.6. Again, siting of this station is unknown. Wind data may or may not be accurate.

Canaan Valley Refuge

MIN[27.0]—MAX[34.9]—AVG[30.9]

7Springs

MIN[26.4]—MAX[30.8]—AVG[28.6]

Cumberland Airport

MIN[38.3]—MAX[45.8]—AVG[42.0

The Valley vs Cabin Mt

Canaan area temps

Comparison view

RTMA

Radar

Most of the consistent light drizzle north went undetected.

Satellite

Flow

Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow

Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly

Pics today-

Bittinger area

North Fork Mountain

From Rt 33

Spruce Knob

High Mountain area

Weiss Knob coming up from Dryfork

Smoke Hole Fire

Driving south on 220 today towards Franklin from Petersburg, the sky became noticeably hazy looking. A fire burning near Eagle Rock/Dry Hollow/Cave Mt at the southern end of the Smoke Hole area.(Dry Hollow,Smoke Hole- there is a reason for those names)

The area is very rugged, very steep and covered in fresh falling leaf debri from autumn. After very strong winds drying the surface, and aiding the fire, it was able to move quickly. Below is some information, maps, social media photos of the event location.