April 4, 2020

Apr 4(Sat)

Clear overnight and clouds rapidly pushed in at dawn. Mostly cloudy skies occured for all but about a hour or so early afternoon. Areas south of Garrett had sun throughout the morning. You’ll see in the Satellite images further below.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

Snowfall season to date 67.5″

Interesting note- temps at this site have been running a degree or 2 warmer often vs the Garrett College site when its usually vice versa. This station is located in a area with lots of dead brown grasses on the Valley floor. Higher sun angle heating up the dead brown surface, minimal evapotranspiration, is the likely cause. As the season progresses and the lush grass returns and leaves come out, I suspect things return to max temps running -1 to -3 vs the college. This is a localized surface effect vs the area being warmer.