March 12, 2020

Mar 20(Thurs)

Some early fog, wetness giving way to a warming nice afternoon.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

No new snowfall

Snow Depth- 0, last remaining rhododendron patches withering away

Snowfall season to date 63.5″

Garrett College

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

PRECIP .04 7am

No new snow

Snow depth 0

Snowfall season to date 88.7″

Comments by Dave Lesher at:

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

Plenty of sunshine with high temperature 60F. Heard frogs in nearby pond for the first time this spring

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Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Canaan Valley Refuge

7Springs

Cumberland Airport

The Valley vs Cabin Mt

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RT 33 at Allegheny mountain on the divide east of Harman

Rock Lodge Rd near The Glades

The Yough at Sang Run

Cranesville

March 11, 2020

Mar 11(Wed)

Cloudy, wet foggy start, with some breaks later.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

Garrett College

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Precip .28 7am

No new snowfall

Snow depth 0

Snowfall season to date 88.7

Comments by Dave Lesher at:

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

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Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Canaan Valley Refuge

7Springs

Cumberland Airport

The Valley vs Cabin Mt

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March 10, 2020

Mar 10(Tues)

Cloudy, some light rain, with pockets of steady to briefly heavy later in the day

Bittinger 2nw Valley

No new snowfall

Snow depth traces of snow left in the morning

Snowfall season to date 63.5″

Garrett College

Minimal data recorded today

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

PRECIP .08

New snowfall 0

Snow depth T

Snowfall season to date 88.7″

Comments by Dave Lesher at:

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

Increasing clouds and mild with a few light showers toward daybreak, then periods of showers all day.

Total snowfall this winter so far now totals 89 inches, more than 50 inches less than the long term average for this date. See Table 4 below.

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Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Canaan Valley Refuge

7Springs

Cumberland Airport

The Valley vs Cabin Mt

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March 9, 2020

Mar 9(Mon)

Clear start, sunny day, breezy, very dry air still in place. Mild. Clouds late.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

No new snowfall

Snow depth 0 sunny areas avg 1.5 shady areas at 7am

Season to date total snowfall 63.5

Garrett College

Some daily data missing.

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Precip 0 7am

New snow 0 7am

Snow depth 2.0″7am

Snowfall season to date 88.7″

Comments by Dave Lesher at

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

Fair and mild with temperatures holding in the 40s overnight, then mostly sunny and pleasant, high 58F

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Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Canaan Valley Refuge

7Springs

Cumberland Airport

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March 8, 2020

Mar 8(Sun)

Mainly clear, cold start, extremely dry air mass in place. Beautiful mild day. Areas that have snow, little melt on northerly slopes and shady areas due to the dry air mass. At 45-50°, some spots on Weiss Knob were powder at 1:30-2pm

Bittinger 2nw Valley

Snow Depth 2.5″ 7am

Garrett College

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Precip since 7am yesterday trace

New snow since 7am yesterday -trace

Snow depth at 7am 4″

Snowfall season to date 88.7″

comments by Dave Lesher at:

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

Clear and cold overnight, low 17F here but near zero in the valley frost pockets, then mostly sunny and sharply warmer, high 55F. Saw two robins this afternoon. Daffodils have poked through in the garden

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Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Canaan Valley Refuge

A single day rise of 52.2°. I do believe that is the single greatest single day rise since the station was put in, in Jan 2019

7Springs

Cumberland Airport

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Void of precip

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March 7, 2020

Mar 7(Sat)

Light steady snow through about 10:30am. Then it ended and skies began to break and went sunny in the afternoon. Very low dewpoints. Some accumulation occured from 7am through the ending period in Garrett. It’s the time of the year, where as soon as that snow ends you need to take an immediate obs. If you are late, and record in a area with any type of sun where you record, you will lose that 1/4″ off your snowboard rather rapidly. I took my obs immediately as the snow ended. In multiple cases, I’ve noticed area observers missing the 7am through 10am snowfall and that’s likely due to failing to take a ending time obs and it either blows or melts off. I digress.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

That type of snow was pretty much continous from 7am through 10-10:30am. It did accumulate more than a trace. .

Garrett College

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

new snowfall 4.9″ 7am

Snow depth 5.0″

Snowfall season to date 88.7″

Comments by Dave Lesher at

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

Light snow continuing but slowly diminishing overnight and through daybreak; occasional periods of blowing snow. The last snowflakes ended mid morning then becoming mostly sunny in the afternoon but still cold, high 28F.

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Canaan Valley Refuge

7Springs

Cumberland Airport

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March 6, 2020

Mar 6(Fri)

Early round of moderate snow at daybreak put down around a half inch and ended just prior to the 7am recordings. In areas, my area, and most areas under 3000′, this melted off until some heavier pockets began showing up midday. I never melted off after that, but many areas did. Snow/melt/snow/melt. Evening and into the over night activity increased.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

New snowfall today of 1.3″

Max depth was .9″ late day , .4 at 7am which melted off.

Snowfall season to date 61.3″

Garrett College

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

MIN[22.0]—MAX[35.0]—AVERAGE MEAN[28.5]—PRECIP[.03]7am

New snowfall through 7am of .6″

Snowfall season to date 83.8″

All of todays snowfall will be tallied in tomorrows post

Comments by Dave Lesher at

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

Cloudy overnight with light snow commencing 6AM.
10AM: Very light snow and 31F. Only a trace of snow fell from 7AM to 10AM.
1PM: Light snow shower and 28F. Snowshowers since 10AM alternating with periods of dim sunshine. New snow since 7AM only 0.3 in.
7PM: Light snow and 27F. Snow intensity has varied widely all afternoon ranging from nothing to times of moderate and briefly heavy. New snow since 1PM 2.2in. Event total now 3.1in. Next update late evening.
1045PM: Light snow, windy and 24F. Some blowing and drifting snow. New snow since 7PM 1.6 in. Storm total 4.7 in.

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Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Canaan Valley Refuge

A 15° rise in 20 minutes, likely a indication so.e wind kicked in

7Springs

Cumberland Airport

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March 5, 2020

Mar 5(Thurs)

A clear cold start, with higher clouds in and out today.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

Garrett College

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

MIN[23.0]—MAX[49.0]—AVERAGE MEAN[36.0]—PRECIP[0]

Snow Depth -Trace

Snowfall season to date 83.2″

Comments by Dave Lesher at

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

Mix of clouds and sun then increasing clouds late day and evening.

Climate Reference Network Canaan

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Canaan Valley Refuge

7Springs

Cumberland Airport

The Valley vs Cabin Mt

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Void of precip

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March 4, 2020

Mar 4(Wed)

Mostly sunny start, some clouds rolling in during the afternoon and a few stray showers after dark, also windy at times.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

No new snowfall

Isolated patches of snow in protected rhododendron areas… outside of that, only drifted areas

Snowfall season to date 60.0″

Garrett College

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

MIN[28.0]—MAX[48.0]—AVERAGE MEAN[38.0]—PRECIP[.45]7am

New snowfall-trace

Snowfall season to date 83.2

Comments by Dave Lesher at :

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

A few snowflakes and colder overnight; clearing by daybreak. Fair and pleasant throught the day.

Climate Reference Network Canaan

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Whitegrass webcam north face Cabin Mt

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Canaan Valley Refuge

7Springs

Cumberland Airport

The Valley vs Cabin Mt

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March 3, 2020

Mar 3(Tues)

A awesome sunrise, quickly giving way to some showers. Those subsided in the afternoon for a period, before more pushed through mid afternoon. Creating plenty of social media rainbow pics. Later on, some thunderstorms pushed through that contained first soft hail, then also snow around 9:30-10pm, didn’t stick.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

No new snowfall, although snow was in the air around 9:30-10pm. About the time of the rapid drop on the daily temp graph.

Snow depth- traces

Season to date total snowfall 60.0″

Garrett College

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

MIN[33.0]—MAX[51.0]—AVERAGE MEAN[42.0]—PRECIP[.37]7am

No new snow

Snowfall season to date 83.2″

Comments by Dave Lesher at :

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

Periods of rain and mild; a brief thunderstorm with pea hail in late afternoon. Turning colder late in the day.

The average temperature of 31.7F for the 3-month period of Dec to Feb just ended (aka “meteorological winter”) is the warmest it’s been since the winter of 1998-99. See Table 12.3 below.

Climate Reference Network Canaan

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Canaan Valley Refuge

7Springs

Cumberland Airport

The Valley vs Cabin Mt

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