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
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′
The Valley vs Cabin Mt
Bittinger 2NW Valley vs Mt.Davis
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
Current Surface Features and 500mb Height Anomalies and Flow
Oakland
Cranesville
by Swallow Falls SP
The Yough at Sang Run
Grantsville to Savage Mt
Frostburg
Cumberland
Polish Mt
Town Hill
Northcraft
Social Media pics
First Rick Gillespie pics of the Franklin area that was in some of that late day rain activity
Next image west of the storm area by Todd Romero in Canaan
Allegheny Mountains Weather 