December 16, 2024

Forest Service Cam offline since 6/24/21

Dec 16(Mon)

Depending on location. Some areas with a icy start. Some a wet start. Some dry. Some mild. Some cold

Bittinger 2NW Valley

precip .48

year to date precip 51.16

SF 0

SD .5

Snowfall season to date 24.4″

total ice accretion .25 to .3

Dyacon Data Below

The Glades

• Morning pics

Garrett County Airport

Top of Wisp

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Climate Reference Network Canaan

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Bear Rocks-Dolly Sods

Spruce Knob

Canaan Valley Refuge

Mt.Davis

no data due to mid October bear attack on the station

Snowshoe

Petersburg Grant County Airport

Elkins Airport

-Site Comparison

The Valley vs Cabin Mt

Bittinger 2NW Valley vs Garrett County Airport

Canaan area temps

Sods Plateau

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

• NOW THE WEDGE SNOW/SLEET RESULTS( a bit of the light western edge was on the ground pre event)

Grantsville to Savage Mt

From mostly bare ground Grantsville, to a slight coating of ice at Hilltop area, a increase of ice from Meadow Mt and east and sleet+ice accretion at Savage Mt. Sleet accumulation appeared around .5 to .8, ice around .2 to .4. Irregular ice accretion that appeared strongly likely due to riming early Sunday that began to take on freezing rain and that always makes it irregular as the rain soaks in and freezes.

Finzel Swamp

• Side stop atop Savage Mt at Finzel Swamp

Frostburg

• After early ice, a sleet, snow zone, with late ice. Accumulations looked like 1.5 to 2″(eye test guess)

Lavale to Cumberland

• Appeared around 2.5″ +/- Lavale, maybe a touch less Cumberland. This would have shrunk a bit since max as temp was 35. Early glaze ice to sleet, to dominant snow ending as little rain.

Rocky Gap to Martin’s Mt

• After glaze ice early yesterday. To snow and appear like 2-3″ , especially over the top

Flintstone to Polish Mt

• A 2 to 3″ looked like the norm here

15 Mile Creek to Green Ridge

• Amounts looked like 2-3″ through this zone.

Town Hill

• A solid 3″ here

Buck Valley to Amaranth

• 2-3″ zone

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