May 21, 2024

Forest Service Cam offline since 6/24/21

May 21(Tues)

Chilly valley start, milder ridgetops. Plenty of sun today with more pm clouds mixed with daytime heating. East side Alleghenies showers, storms

Bittinger 2NW Valley

Dyacon Data Below

Garrett County Airport

Meadow Mt at Deep Creek State Park morning

Carmel Cove at Abbots Bliss, patch of bugleweed

Carmel Cove at Abbots Bliss-common daisy

Next 2 photos by Evan Byrne via social media. Facebook

the state is set to map this out and provide more details in the coming days.

For now, just doing a very rough estimate perhaps 250-350 acres impacted by the native canker worm

Social media chatter of it was frost on top that caused this are 100% incorrect. For one it’s a known that it’s causes by a pest. But these ridge tops without an unseasonably cold air mass that produces freezing temperatures per the air mass in place in which we have not had. Are some of the locations in the area that recieve the earliest last frost of the year and often prior to leaf out as the colder high valleys get much harder late frost than the ridge tops. A very frequent often not understood but yet common occurrence as most think “higher elevation- colder” which this time of year is rarely the case with freezing temps. Hopefully and possibly soon a weather station will be atop Meadow Mt(fingers crossed) and one at The Glades.

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

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′