December 4, 2019

Dec 4(Wed)

Bittinger 2nw Valley

MIN[26.4]—MAX[31.5]—AVG[28.9]—PRECIP[.03]

Snowfall- .5″ overnight through 6am boardsweep, .2″ today through 4pm boardsweep (no additional through 6pm)

Snowfall season to date 8.5″ through 6pm

Garrett College

MIN[26.3]—MAX[31.9]—AVG[29.1]

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

MIN[21.8]—MAX[27.8]—AVG[24.8]—PRECIP[.06]

New snowfall at 7am .06

Season to date total snowfall 14.8″

Comments by Dave Lesher

Climate Reference Network Canaan

MIN[22.6]—MAX[31.0]—AVG[26.8]—PRECIP[.25]

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

MIN[19.2]—MAX[25.5]—AVG[22.3]—PRECIP[F]

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

MIN[20.5]—MAX[26.6]—AVG[23.5]—PRECIP[F]

Spruce Knob

MIN[17.1]—MAX[25.3]—AVG[21.2]—PRECIP[F]

Snowshoe

MIN[16.7]—MAX[26.1]—AVG[21.4]

Canaan Valley Refuge

MIN[24.6]—MAX[31.5]—AVG[28.0]

7Springs

MIN[24.3]—MAX[27.3]—AVG[25.8]

Cumberland Airport

MIN[35.6]—MAX[43.1]—AVG[39.3]

The Valley vs Cabin Mt

Canaan area temps

Comparison view

RTMA

Radar

Satellite

Flow

Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow

Pics today-

Deep Creek Lake to the Bittinger area

Deep Creek Lake towards Oakland

Up Backbone Mt from Silver Lake

Thomas -Davis

Canaan Mt- 32 and the Loop

Morning outlook update:

The winter look and feel holds today with light snow this morning giving way to some more steady snow this afternoon into the overnight.

In general this looks like a 2-4″ event with a favored zone of 4-6″ popping up.

6z GFS

Snowfall amounts off the model

The 0z ECMWF comes in a little less, but it doesn’t always handle these type of systems great

The NWS forecast

Snowfall amounts from the NWS

Morning cams

Roadways north to south

Resorts-7Springs, Wisp, Canaan, Snowshoe

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