February 29, 2020
Feb 29(Sat) Leap Day
Fluffy moderate snow occured dawn through late morning, before dwindling to flurries and ending with breaks of sun in the mix for the afternoon. Remaining cold.
Bittinger 2nw Valley
MIN[12.6]—MAX[23.7]—AVERAGE MEAN[18.1]—TRUE AVERAGE[17.9]
New snowfall through 7am of .4″
From 7am through 11am as the steady consistent fluff dwindled to flurries a new 1.1″ fell. That’s the time you want to do your snowfall recording.
Snowdepth 6.8″ and that varies 6.5-7.5 outside of windblown locations.
Snowfall season to date pushed to 60.0″ with the morning snowfall.
Garrett College
MIN[12.8]—MAX[24.3]—AVERAGE MEAN[18.5]—TRUE AVERAGE[18.0]—PRECIP[F]
Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE
MIN[7.0]—MAX[22.0]—AVERAGE MEAN[14.5]—PRECIP[.19]7am
New snowfall 4.7″ through 7am with some continuing
Snow depth 11″
Snowfall season to date 82.7″
Comments by Dave Lesher at:
One more period of steady light snow overnight then off-and-on of light snow finally ending by mid afternon. February’s snowfall total to 33.9 inches is still about 8 inches less than the long-term February average snowfall of 42 inches. |
Climate Reference Network Canaan
MIN[9.3]—MAX[18.3]—AVERAGE MEAN[13.8]—TRUE AVERAGE[14.9]—PRECIP[.05]
Cabin Mt at Bald Knob
MIN[5.0]—MAX[13.5]—AVERAGE MEAN[9.2]—TRUE AVERAGE[10 2]—PRECIP[F]
Cabin Mt-Western Sods
MIN[5.7]—MAX[16.0]—AVERAGE MEAN[10.8]—TRUE AVERAGE[11.6]—PRECIP[F]
Winds in excess of 40mph producing windchills well below 0 at times
Spruce Knob
MIN[3.4]—MAX[13.6]—AVERAGE MEAN[8.5]—TRUE AVERAGE[9.8]—PRECIP[F]
Snowshoe
MIN[4.1]—MAX[14.5]—AVERAGE MEAN[9.3]—TRUE AVERAGE[10.4]
Canaan Valley Refuge
MIN[9.9]—MAX[20.3]—AVERAGE MEAN[15.1]—TRUE AVERAGE[15.9]
7Springs
MIN[10.1]—MAX[21.0]—AVERAGE MEAN[15.6]—TRUE AVERAGE[15.1]
Cumberland Airport
MIN[22.6]—MAX[35.2]—AVERAGE MEAN[28.9]—TRUE AVERAGE[28.2]
The Valley vs Cabin Mt
Canaan area temps
Comparison view
RTMA
Radar
Satellite
Flow
Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow
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