October 16, 2020

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October 16, 2020

Oct 16(Fri)

Cloudy, dreary, little rain. Wv ground above 4000 may have had a few flakes about.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

old Cherry Glade Church morning 10/16/20
old Cherry Glade Church morning 10/16/20
Bittinger 2nw Valley morning 10/16/20
Bittinger 2nw Valley morning 10/16/20
Bittinger 2nw Valley morning 10/16/20
Bittinger 2nw Valley morning 10/16/20
Bittinger 2nw Valley morning 10/16/20
Bittinger 2nw Valley MMTS 10/16/20
Bittinger 2nw Valley experimental location that typically has min of 1 to 1.5 colder on clear, mornings vs daily site listed
Bittinger 2nw Valley 10/16/20
Bittinger 2nw Valley morning 10/16/20
west of Bittinger late afternoon 10/16/20
Bittinger 2nw Valley afternoon 10/16/20
Bittinger 2nw Valley “Hickory” 10/16/20
Bittinger 2nw Valley “Beech” 10/16/20
Dung Hill Rd 10/16/20

Garrett College

Rock Lodge Rd morning 10/16/20
Deep Creek Lake 10/16/20
Deep Creek Lake 10/16/20
Deep Creek Lake 10/16/20

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Precip .03 7am

Year to date total precip 51.54

Comments and data by Dave Lesher at:

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com/

Mention of some wet splats on windshield that was “almost” flakes.

Climate Reference Network Canaan

view towards Plains/Crayon from 32 pulloff

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Better chance here a wet flake occured on top

Bald Knob afternoon 10/16/20
Bald Knob left in the distance, afternoon 10/16/20

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Spruce Knob

good shot some wet flakes occured

Canaan Valley Refuge

Snowshoe

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′

The Valley vs Cabin Mt

Canaan area temps

Comparison view

High Ground Comparison

Up High and Down Low

Up High, High Valley, Low Valley

Radar

https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/GIS/apps/rview/warnings.phtml?autopilot=0&osite=RLX&tzoff=0&layers%5B%5D=nexrad&layers%5B%5D=warnings&layers%5B%5D=cwas&layers%5B%5D=uscounties&layers%5B%5D=watches&layers%5B%5D=blank&site=RLX&tz=EST&archive=yes&year=2020&month=10&day=16&hour=21&minute=55&warngeo=both&zoom=250&imgsize=1280×1024&loop=1&frames=90&interval=15&filter=0&cu=0&sortcol=fcster&sortdir=0&lsrlook=%2B&lsrwindow=0

Satellite

Flow

Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow

Canaan Valley

Backbone Mt

219
219

Davis

219 Redhouse to Oakland

this view is south at Redhouse
Oakland morning 10/16/20

Cranesville

Cranesville swamp…tad hard to see but the Tamarack have changed

Sang Run

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