October 5, 2020

Oct 5(Mon)

Cloudy, dreary start, showers. Clouds held a good part of the day until late. Breezy

Bittinger 2nw Valley

by the old Cherry Glade Church, morning 10/5/20. Maple leaf drop fairly significant with overnight rain and some wind

Rock Lodge Rd near the north branch of the Cassleman morning 10/5/20. Rain helping saturate the colors. Lots of maple dropped a good portion of leaves

looking NW from Bittinger morning 10/5/20

Garrett College

Rock Lodge Rd near the Lodge morning 10/5/20

Rock Lodge Rd near the Glades afternoon 10/5/20

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Precip .37 7am

Year to date total precip 50.86

Comments and data by Dave Lesher at:

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com/

A sharp-eyed reader pointed out that the first 32F temperature on Oct 3 this fall means that the 2020 growing season was only 124 days, the shortest in all 22 years that data have been collect here. Of course, that very short period was due to the unusually late freezing temperature that occurred on June 1 this past spring. Table 10 has now been updated to reflect all growing seasons since 1999. Thanks Alex.

Climate Reference Network Canaan

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Spruce Knob

Canaan Valley Refuge

Dy007-Canaan Valley Refuge 3150′, Dy002-Cabin Mt at Bald Knob 4350, Dy003-Cabin Mt/Sods 4035′, Dy004-Spruce Knob 4820, Cvpw2-Climate Reference Network Canaan 3479′, Kw99 Petersburg Grant County Airport 961′