December 5, 2024

Forest Service Cam offline since 6/24/21

Dec 5(Thurs)

Last nights heavy period of snow that featured some thundersnow, and strong winds saw the heavy precip shield moving away at daylight. Some lingering flakes and pockets of snowshowers today and intervals with sun, and extremely windy.

Bittinger 2NW Valley

precip +

snowfall 4.5

snowdepth 6

month to date 5.2″

season to date 21.8″

Dyacon Data below

Dyacon outage lead to an incomplete chart. All data was recorded. Chart will be manually corrected at months end

Rock Lodge Rd near The Glades morning ” vehichle stuck

West of Bittinger morning

Rock Lodge Rd near The Glades morning

Bittinger 2NW Valley morning, station battery swap and reboot after technical issues yesterday.

Foxtown Rd morning

Garrett County Airport

2am Mosser Rd as the main period was just beginning

Abbots Bliss-Railey Rental

Top of Wisp

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Climate Reference Network Canaan

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Bear Rocks-Dolly Sods

Video by Logan Burr

Spruce Knob

Canaan Valley Refuge

Mt.Davis

No data due to mid October bear attack on the station

Snowshoe

Opening Day

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′, DY025-Bear Rocks 4052′