March 31, 2020

Mar 31(Tues)

Cloudy, rain and snow shower early, then high Wv elevation snow late day. Showers elsewhere.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

Early am snow showers, no accumulation

Snowfall season to date 67.5″

Monthly total 7.5″

Garrett College

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Precip 0 7am

Snowfall 0 through 7am but picked up late day, will be tallied tomorrow

Snowfall season to date 89.4″

Comments by Dave Lesher at:

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

Cloudy all day, high 38F. Light snow commenced 515PM and continued without letup up to midnight, often moderate in intensity until mid evening. Dead calm wind the entire time with huge flakes allowed for a tender accumulation on all surfaces. An extremely unusual snowfall event for here.

March’s total snowfall of 6.7 inches was just a quarter of the long term average. See Table 3.1 below. As grim as this seems, this is not a first. In Table 3.1, note the similar very low March snowfall totals in 2009, 2010 and 2012.

To accompany the low total snowfall in March, the mean temperature for the month was 5.9 degrees warmer than the long term average. See Table 12.3 below.