April 30, 2020

Apr 30 (Thurs)

Heavy rain overnight, showers today. Some minor flooding on localized spots in the area.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

Snowfall season to date 71.5″

Overall month graph and data

Average Monthly Max 51.9°

Warmest temp was 64.7° on the 5th

Coldest Max was 36.7 on the 10th

Average Monthly Min 31.4°

Coldest temp was 23.6 on the 17th

Warmest min was 42.6 on the 30th

Average Mean 41.6°

True Average 41.7°

The month had 19 dates below freezing. In March, there were a total of 15 days below freezing. April mins ended up 1.0° colder than March. Maxes were .8° warmer than. Overall mean temp was below March, but the monthly true average was .4° higher than March. Only 3 dates had mins exceeding 40°.

For comparison this was March 2020

Garrett College

The station really had lots of technical difficulty the last few weeks. I was told it was a bad port connection. Lots of missed data, both temp and precip unfortunately.

Todays max temp was unrecorded as it likely occured just after midnight. Also heavy rain occured just after midnight.

Monthly graph view, again does not contain enough data to make a good monthly data set from

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Precip 1.07 7am

Snowfall season to date 98.0″

Comments by Dave Lesher at:

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

Third wettest April since precip records commenced here in October 2001. Prior Aprils that had greater precip were 8.77 in. in 2002 and 10.99 in. in 2011. See Table 13.1 below. Also third coolest April since temperature records commenced in October 1998. See Table 12.3 below

Climate Reference Network Canaan

Monthly graph

Average Monthly Max 51.3

Warmest Max was 69.4 on the 29th

Coldest Max was 34.8 on the 10th

Average Monthly Min was 32.5

Coldest min was 22.0 on the 15th

Warmest min was 47.3 on the 7th

April 2020 was colder than March 2020, a quick look back at March 2020

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Monthly graph

Average monthly max 48.1

Warmest max was 62.4 on the 29th

Coldest max was 29.8 on the 10th

Average monthly min 30.7

Coldest min was 16.7 on the 15th

Warmest min was 49.5 on the 29th

April 2020 was colder than March 2020 overall

A quick look back to March

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Monthly graph

Average Monthly Max 49.2

Warmest Max was 63.5 on the 12th

Coldest Max was 31.5 on the 10th

Average monthly min 31.9

Coldest min was 18.5 on the 15th

Warmest min was 49.6 on the 29th

Overall on par with March. April’s mean was slightly higher in April and the overall average equaled that of March.

A quick look at March 2020

Spruce Knob

Monthly graph

Average monthly max 46.7

Warmest max was 62.1 on the 29th

Coldest max was 27.7 on the 10th

Average min was 29.7

Coldest min was 15.8 on the 15th

Warmest min was 44.2 on the 29th

Overall April 2020 ended up colder than March 2020.

A quick look back to March

Snowshoe

Monthly graph-* like Garrett College, this station simply had too much missed data this month

Canaan Valley Refuge

Monthly graph

Average monthly Max 53.4

Warmest max was 68.0 on the 29th

Coldest max was 36.5 on the 10th

Average monthly min was 27.2

Coldest min was 14.4 on the 19th * coldest of listed sites

Warmest min was 41.4 on the 30th, to note, the next warmest min was 38.3, and all others were in the 33° and colder range

Overall April 2020 colder than March 2020 thanks to those cold mins. Maxes were slightly higher. I believe maxes on high solar days are very much aided by the open, yet brown heat absorbing Valley location

Comparison to March 2020