January 21, 2021

Jan 18(Mon)

Snow, pockets of heavy snow. Some lull periods.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

I was fortunate enough to be in the heavy band. 4.1″ in 2 hours. It did snow some beyond this period, with a bit of graupel. Never enough though to boost the accumulation. It settled as it snowed.

Garrett College

Station offline

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Precip .20 7am

Year to date total precip 2.26

Snowfall 2.3 7am

Season to date total snowfall 53.1 7am

Comments and data by Dave Lesher at:

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

Two brief heavy snow squalls in the late forenoon and early afternoon then periods of light snow during the late afternoon and evening

Climate Reference Network Canaan

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Spruce Knob

Canaan Valley Refuge

Mt. Davis

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

High Ground Comparison

Up High and Down Low

Up High, High Valley, Low Valley

RTMA

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=2021&month=1&day=18&hour=23&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

East of Cumberland

Savage Mt

South of Grantsville