December 18, 2023

Outlooks:

post made 7:30am

Winter Storm Warnings out across the high ground

https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=RLX&wwa=winter%20storm%20warning click for details

NWS SNOWFALL MAPS

Sterling

Pittsburgh below

Charleston below

State College below

7am temps and falling and will be below these tallies as you read this

Radar

that wrap around already starting to show up. Now as we go through the event, not all of the upslope will be picked up by radar. As the radar beam gets to parts of the Alleghenies, it will overshoot the precip level.

Modeled maps

below is the 07z model blend map

6z GFS below

below is the 6z ECMWF

Poor travel overnight and Tuesday morning, with strong gusty winds, areas of steady snow and blowing snow also accompanied by squalls and streamers..Areas under any repeated squalls or lengthy streamers will obviously end up running with the higher tallies for the event. With every event, there are areas that stray from forecasted tallies one way or the other

Review of December 18, 2023

Forest Service Cam offline since 6/24/21

Dec 18(Mon)

Cloudy, a.m rain to flakes, touch of freezing drizzle and areas of snow showers, squalls. Not widespread

Bittinger 2nw Valley

Dyacon below-

Experimental “Fridge Spot” Below

Bittinger 2nw Valley morning, trace of snow left. Non drifted

Garrett County Airport

Top of Wisp

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Climate Reference Network Canaan

Atop Canaan Ski area

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Spruce Knob

Canaan Valley Refuge

Mt.Davis

cam iced over

Snowshoe

Petersburg Grant County Airport

Elkins Airport

SITE COMPARISON

Dy007-Canaan Valley Refuge 3150′, Dy008-Bittinger 2nw Valley 2600′, 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′, G1472 Snowshoe 4500′, F0183 Burkes Garden 3050′