April 9, 2020

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April 9, 2020

Apr 9(Thur)

Period of rain overnight , showers this morning, a rainbow, some soft hail, changing to graupel and snow very early afternoon. Snowshowers into the evening.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

New snowfall .1″ at 6pm, this melted off

Snowfall season to date 67.6″

Garrett College

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Precip .27 7am

New snowfall added tomorrow

Snowfall season to date 93.5″

Comments by Dave Lesher at :

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

Windy with rainshowers during the morning including a brief heavy rainshower with grape seed size hail. Two showers of snow pellets early afternoon, then very light and light snow showers mid afternoon as temperatures fall to mid 30s. One heavy snow squall came through late afternoon with only a few periods of light snow for the remainder of the day after that.

Climate Reference Network Canaan

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Station still offline. It’s pretty obvious it’s not a priority and hard to say when it returns. May enf up switching to another station that is up there if it looks to be of quality.

Canaan Valley Refuge

7Springs

Cumberland Airport

The Valley vs Cabin Mt

Canaan area temps

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April 8, 2020

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April 8, 2020

Apr 8(Wed)

Strong storms overnight. High winds, hail, lightning, downpours…that calmed down prior to daybreak. Cloudy. Drizzle, some high ground fog in the morning, breaks of afternoon sun.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

Garrett College

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Precip 1.05 7am

Snowfall season to date 93.5″

Comments by Dave Lesher at:

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

Climate Reference Network Canaan

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Station is still offline. Since 4/7/20

Canaan Valley Refuge

7Springs

Cumberland Airport

photo by Erick Kirchner of the lightning overnight.

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Check out more of his work at:

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The Valley vs Cabin Mt

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The Grantsville wind damage-especially Penn Alps/Spruce Village

Pretty clear this was straight line wind damage from a microburst . Everything falling eastward. 0 sign of tornado damage.

https://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Atmosphere/wind_microburst.html&edu=high

https://www.weather.gov/bmx/outreach_microbursts

its very within reason to assume the damage at the Spruce village was due to straight line winds 70-100mph

More wind damage occured in Meyersdale, knock ing the press box off the bleachers.

Within reason to believe those winds topped 70 as well, with the nearby padot station going to 69.3.

April 7, 2020

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April 7, 2020

Apr 7(Tues)

On and off showers, a few intervals of sun. Some severe weather, mainly one cell that crossed Wv that dropped pretty impressive hail.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

Snowfall season to date 67.5″

Garrett College

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Precip 0 7am

Snowfall season to date 93.5″

Comments by Dave Lesher at:

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

Climate Reference Network Canaan

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Station is offline, no new data

Canaan Valley Refuge

7Springs

Cumberland Airport

The Valley vs Cabin Mt

Canaan area temps

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April 6, 2020

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April 6, 2020

Apr 6(Mon)

Cloudy, foggy, start, a shower, that quickly gave way to lots of sun. Some clouds built back in after dark. With brief spotty light showers.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

Snowfall season to date 67.5″

Garrett College

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

PRECIP .01 7am

Snowfall season to date 93.5″

Comments by Dave Lesher at:

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

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

Canaan area temps

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April 5, 2020

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April 5, 2020

Apr 5(Sun)

Lots of clouds, a period of late morning, early afternoon sun. Few light showers in the afternoon.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

Snowfall season to date 67.5″

Only site listed with below freezing temps each morning this month

Marsh Marigolds coming up

RAMP WATCH

Not a lot of growth over the past week

Old Cherry Glade Church

Garrett College

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Precip 0 7am

Snowfall season to date 93.5″

Comments by Dave Lesher at:

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

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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Southeast of Bittinger

April 4, 2020

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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.

Garrett College

WU site had a graph error occur during actual min temp time, that min temp was captured on the College webpage

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Precip 0 7am

Snowfall season to date 93.5″

Comments by Dave Lesher at:

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

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

Canaan area temps

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April 3, 2020

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April 3, 2020

April 3(Fri)

Nice day, bit windy, plenty o sun, dry air mass.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

Snowfall season to date 67.5″

4 years ago today(April 3, 2016)

7 years ago today(April 3, 2013)

Garrett College

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Precip 0 7am

Snowfall season to date 93.5″

Comments by Dave Lesher at:

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

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

Canaan area temps

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Void of precip

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Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow

April 2, 2020

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April 2, 2020

Apr 2 (Thurs)

Pleasant day yet chilly. Some snow cover remained above around 4400′ Wv high ground and appeared to last through the day in shaded areas. Windy today.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

Garrett College

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Precip .12 7am

New snowfall T 7am

Snowfall season to date 93.5″

Comments by Dave Lesher at:

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

Climate Reference Network Canaan

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Spruce Knob

Photos by Zeb Kessel on Spruce Knob today

Snowshoe

Canaan Valley Refuge

7Springs

Cumberland Airport

The Valley vs Cabin Mt

Canaan area temps

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Void of precip

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April 1, 2020

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April 1 2020

April 1(Wed)

High elevation snow. Stickage remained mainly above 3100′. Snow/rain mix below 3100′ did occur. Some instability rain and graupel showers as well as pockets of high elevation snow showers did occur yet in spots during the afternoon. Also a few intervals of sun in the afternoon and that helps fuel the popup instability with the cold air aloft.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

A little snow/rain mix predawn. No stickage. A afternoon graupel shower did briefly allow for a trace of graupel on the ground ground. Rapidly melted.

Snowfall season to date 67.5″

Garrett College

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Precip .24 7am

New snowfall 4.1″

Snow depth at 7am 3″

Snowfall season to date 93.5″

Comments by Dave Lesher at:

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

Snow tapered off to very light well before daybreak, then several rain and snow showers during the afternoon, including one very short, heavy snow squall. Snow cover disappered by evening.

Total wnter snowfall of 93.5 inches as of today is more than 60 inches less than normal for this date and is the first time since the winter of 2001-02 that less than 100 inches has been measured as of April 1. See Table 4 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

Canaan area temps

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Mt. Davis

Pic by David Podlesnik on Mt. Davis. This was about as low as the stickage occured with the event.

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March 31, 2020

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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.