December 18, 2019

December 18, 2019

Dec 18(Wed)

After skies cleared for awhile overnight, snow moved back in early morning(8am), and continued in varied fashion through the day with some heavier squalls at times. A brief very heavy one around 7pm.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

MIN[11.6]—MAX[21.4]—AVERAGE MEAN[16.5]—TRUE AVERAGE[17.8]—PRECIP[.52]7am

Snowfall- .8″ yesterday afternoon through overnight till 6am , no boardsweep done. Through 5pm another 2.3″ from snowshowers and squalls today for an event total of 3.1″

Snowfall season to date 19.8″

Garrett College

MIN[12.4]—MAX[20.8]—AVERAGE MEAN[16.6]—TRUE AVERAGE[18.1]—PRECIP[F/S]

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

MIN[10.3]—MAX[18.4]—AVERAGE MEAN[14.3]—PRECIP[.23]

Snowfall .8″ through 7am

Snowfall season to date 27.1″

Comments by Dave Lesher

Climate Reference Network Canaan

MIN[12.2]—MAX[19.7]—AVERAGE MEAN[16.0]—TRUE AVERAGE[15.9]—PRECIP[.04]

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

MIN[7.7]—MAX[15.8]—AVERAGE MEAN[11.7]—TRUE AVERAGE[11.8]—PRECIP[F/S]

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

MIN[8.2]—MAX[16.5]—AVERAGE MEAN[12.3]—TRUE AVERAGE[12.8]— PRECIP[F/S]

Spruce Knob

MIN[6.6]—MAX[14.5]—AVERAGE MEAN[10.5]—TRUE AVERAGE[10.6]—PRECIP[F/S]

Snowshoe

MIN[7.5]—MAX[14.4]—AVERAGE MEAN[10.9]—TRUE AVERAGE[11.2]

Canaan Valley Refuge

MIN[12.7]—MAX[20.7]—AVERAGE MEAN[16.7]—TRUE AVERAGE[17.4]

7Springs

MIN[7.7]—MAX[18.1]—AVERAGE MEAN[12.9]—TRUE AVERAGE[14.9]

Cumberland Airport

MIN[21.7]—MAX[31.2]—AVERAGE MEAN[26.4]—TRUE AVERAGE[27.4]

The Valley vs Cabin Mt

Canaan area temps

Comparison view

RTMA

Radar

This evening batch produced a snow squall warning (check out the Keysers Ridge video below)

Satellite

Flow

Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow

Pics today-

Bittinger area

Oakland/Deep Creek/McHenry area

KEYSERS RIDGE CAM

Poor Rudolph

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