September 19, 2024

September 19, 2024

Forest Service Cam offline since 6/24/21

Sept 19(Thurs)

Cloudy, dreary, foggy start. Some drizzle. The fog lifted, some areas of sun and midday and afternoon showers mainly across the WV High ground.

Bittinger 2NW Valley

rainfall .03

Dyacon Data Below

West of Bittinger morning
Up from Bittinger 2NW Valley morning
Up from Bittinger 2NW Valley morning
Bittinger 2NW Valley morning
Bittinger 2NW Valley morning
Bittinger 2NW Valley morning
Bittinger 2NW Valley morning
Bittinger 2NW Valley morning
Bittinger 2NW Valley morning
Rock Lodge Rd near The Glades afternoon
Rock Lodge Rd at Beachy Rd afternoon
Beachy Rd afternoon
West of Bittinger afternoon
West of Bittinger afternoon
Bittinger 2NW Valley afternoon
Bittinger 2NW Valley afternoon
Bittinger 2NW Valley afternoon
Bittinger 2NW Valley afternoon
Bittinger 2NW Valley afternoon
Bittinger 2NW Valley afternoon
Bittinger 2NW Valley evening
Bittinger 2NW Valley evening
Bittinger 2NW Valley evening
West of Bittinger evening
West of Bittinger evening
Orndorf Rd evening
Orndorf Rd evening
Orndorf Rd evening
Near Bittinger evening
Brennemans Grove evening
Brennemans Grove evening
By Beachy Rd evening
Rock Lodge Rd evening
Rock Lodge Rd near The Glades evening

The Glades

Garrett County Airport

Mchenry morning
Cherry Creek at Mosser Rd morning
Rock Lodge Rd morning
Rock Lodge Rd morning
Deep Creek Lake morning
Mchenry evening

Top of Wisp

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Up 32 from Davis morning
Canaan Heights morning
32 towards Davis afternoon
32 towards Davis afternoon

Canaan Mt Bog

A new min may replace the morning min of 57.1. Midnight to midnight data. Likely prior to midnight the min fell below this and will reflect on the next logger download
Maples the dominant tree around the bog at the onset of peak color. Some still have a bit of change to go. As those change some of the current ones will drop. Over this week, around the bog area will be peak colors
Rain over on Cabin Mt

Climate Reference Network Canaan

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Maples across the top onset of peak. Birch ahead of schedule and should peak over the coming 10 day window. The birch make up a good portion of Weiss Knob as seen in pics below. Ground cover, ferns, chokecherry, blueberry while not vivid, have more or less hit their potential
Up we go

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 area

Morning up from Sand Flat

Backbone to Thomas and back

Davis

Beginning of camp 70

Canaan Valley

The onset of the building showers

Cranesville

Sang Run

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