January 28, 2021

Jan 28(Thurs)

Snow, fluff at varying rates from very light to moderate. Windy. Cold.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

Garrett College

Station offline

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Precip .06 7am

Year to date total precip 3.47

New snow .8

Season to date total snowfall 61.7

Comments and data by Dave Lesher at:

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com

Becoming windy with periods of light snow overnight with temperatures continuing slowly falling to 11F at daybreak, then periods light snow continuing through afternoon, windy with blowing snow, high temperature 15F.

Climate Reference Network Canaan

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Spruce Knob

Canaan Valley Refuge

Mt. Davis

Comvinced solar radiation impacting temps

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=28&hour=23&minute=55&warngeo=both&zoom=250&imgsize=1280×1024&loop=1&frames=95&interval=15&filter=0&cu=0&sortcol=fcster&sortdir=0&lsrlook=%2B&lsrwindow=0

Satellite

Flow

Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow

Snaggy Mt and Cranesville area

Hammel Glade

Snowshoe