December 30, 2023

Outlook;

A bit of snow overnight, appears to generally be in the half inch to inch and a half range. A bit of fine snow/snizzle and even patches of freezing drizzle possible today. Additional accumulations look light with the fine snow. Ratios are poor given the snow structure. The modeled DGZ gave hints of this yesterday. Stable, shallow and dry and that doesn’t give any flake growth, very low snow to liquid ratios, and even allows suspended moisture to remain liquid in instances despite the entire column from cloud level to the surface below freezing. In these setups, model output whether 10 to 1 output or the kuchera ratio output are generally off and sometimes well off.

Never the less, minor events can lead to slick conditions on the roads and that is occurring in areas

Temps mainly 20s across the high ground this morning

Tomorrow night -through Monday looks a bit more promising as the DGZ appears better. Looking like a 2-4″ event.

Review of December 30, 2023

Forest Service Cam offline since 6/24/21

Dec 30(Sat)

Light snow overnight, and fine scattered light snow today

Bittinger 2nw Valley

Bittinger 2nw Valley evening 5pm New snow since 7am(.3)

Garrett County Airport

Top of Wisp

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Climate Reference Network Station

Atop Canaan Ski area

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

temp sensor issues, estimated data

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Spruce Knob

Canaan Valley Refuge

Mt.Davis

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′