December 23, 2022

Forest Service Cam offline offline 6/24/21

Dec 23(Fri)

Overnight rain, freezing rain. Some areas no ice melt off. Precip to snow predawn. Then rapidly falling temps. Below 0 by mid morning on many areas. Windchills -30 to -50 by late morning and afternoon. Brutal sometimes it up.

Bittinger 2nw Valley

Garrett County Airport

Top of Wisp

windchills exceeding minus 40

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Comments and data by Dave Lesher at;

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com/

“Temperatures in the 30s overnight until a powerful arctic cold front passed around 5AM bringing rapidly falling temperatures with a fine wind-blown snow. Temperature 33F at 9AM plunged to zero at 910AM and steadily down all day to -10F at mid afternoon and -14F at midnight. A very fine light snow fell all day with several brief snow squalls, all of which was often whipped into clouds of blowing snow to the height of the tree tops by strong winds. Easily passed technical definition of blizzard many occasions”~ Dave Lesher

Climate Reference Network Canaan

Atop Canaan Ski area

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Spruce Knob

Canaan Valley Refuge

Mt.Davis

Petersburg Grant County Airport

Elkins Airport

Dy007-Canaan Valley Refuge 3150′, Dy002-Cabin Mt at Bald Knob 4350′, Dy003-Cabin Mt-Western Sods 4035′, Dy004-Spruce Knob 4820′, Cvpw2-Climate Reference Network Canaan 3380′, KW99-Petersburg Grant County Airport 961, K2G4 Garrett County Airport 2933′, KCBE Cumberland Airport 774′, KEKN Elkins Airport 1985′, KMGW Morgantown Airport 1227′, PMN16-Mt.Davis 3038′, KDCA-Reagan National 15′

The Valley vs Cabin Mt

Canaan area temps

High Ground Comparison

Up High and Down Low

Up High, High Valley, Low Valley

The Valleys

Wv High Ground Cold spots vs DCA

RTMA

Radar

Satellite

Flow

Surface Features and 500mb Height anomalies and flow

Cranesville