January 14, 2025

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January 14, 2025

Forest Service Cam offline since 6/24/21

Jan 14(Mon)

Clear, cold, windy start. Increasing clouds middat with snow breaking out mid afternoon

Bittinger 2NW Valley

precip .03

SF .8

SD 10 17:00

snowfall season to date 63.3

Bittinger 2NW Valley afternoon

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

Snowshoe

Petersburg Grant County Airport

Elkins Airport

Site Comparison

The Valley vs Cabin Mt

Bittinger 2NW Valley, Bittinger 4H, Garrett County Airport, Mt.Davis

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

Sideling Hill Creek at North craft

Town Hill

Polish Mt

Martins Mt

Cumberland to Lavale

Frostburg

Savage Mt to Grantsville

Oakland area

Cold And Wind This Morning, To Cold, Snow and Wind tonight..

January 14, 2025January 14, 2025 / alleghenymountainsweather / Leave a comment

Cold And Wind This Morning, To Cold, Snow and Wind tonight.

January 14, 7:03am

■Cold and windy out there this morning.

Temps ranging from around 0 to 10 over most of the area
Winds gusting in excess of 50mph over the higher exposed Wv tops , 25-35mph elsewhere
Windchills are low as -25 over the Wv tops -8 to -15 elsewhere over the high ground

■ A shortwave trough pushing in later today, reinforcing the cold air, ramping up the winds and bringing along with it some fluffy snow that should add up to 1-3″ for most with 3-4″ in localized areas.

■ Putting that in to animation on the HRRR

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■ HRRR Snowfall . Modeling will struggle with ratios.

■ A look at temperature off the HRRR showing the reinforcing cold overnight

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■ Windchills off the HRRR. Which lower quite significantly again overnight and may approach -30 windchill values over the higher exposed Wv tops

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■ This being accompanied by strong gusty winds overnight, generally 30-40mph gust with 50mph over the Wv tops will create blowing and drifting, with whiteout conditions at times. Be prepared traversing areas prone to whiteouts.

■ Looking ahead to Thursday as the next system swings through. This one carries a bit more oomph and has 3-6″/4-7″ type potential with it. Winds will be gusty, but not as gusty as it is this morning or tomorrow morning. That said, blowing and drifting will remain an issue.

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■ Once beyond this event, we watch a slightly milder surge with a touch of wet snow and even some liquid in to Saturday in areas that will transition back to wintry weather and more accumulating snows ahead of the major cold blast next week. If the stars align, which are snowpack ✔️, calm, clear, and the extreme cold air mass in place. Could we snag a Wv state record at The Northern Valley station.

January 13, 2025

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January 13, 2025

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Jan 13(Mon)

Mostly cloudy, some fine snow, few pockets of early freezing drizzle. Skies breaking later pm

Bittinger 2NW Valley

precip .02

SF .2

SD 11.5 7am

snowfall season to date 62.5″

Bittinger 4H

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

Snowshoe

Petersburg Grant County Airport

Elkins Airport

Site Comparison

The Valley vs Cabin Mt

Bittinger 2NW Valley, Bittinger 4h, Garrett County Airport, Mt.Davis

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

Cold This Week, Extreme Cold Next?

January 12, 2025 / alleghenymountainsweather

January 12, 2025

January 12, 2025January 13, 2025 / alleghenymountainsweather / Leave a comment

January 12, 2025

Forest Service Cam offline since 6/24/21

Jan 12(Sun)

Cloudy skies clearing south to north through the day reaching the mason dixon area across the Alleghenies late day.

Bittinger 2NW Valley

SF .5

SD 12.5

snowfall season to date 62.3″

Dyacon Data Below

Bittinger 4H

Garrett County Airport

Top of Wisp

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Climate Reference Network Canaan

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Pic by Dave Carroll. Bald Knob on the left

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

Bear Rocks-Dolly Sods

Spruce Knob

Canaan Valley Refuge

Mt.Davis

Snowshoe

Petersburg Grant County Airport

Elkins Airport

Site Comparison

The Valley vs Cabin Mt

Bittinger 2NW Valley, Bittinger 4h, Mt.Davis, 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

Webcams

January 11, 2025

January 11, 2025January 12, 2025 / alleghenymountainsweather / Leave a comment

January 11, 2025

Forest Service Cam offline since 6/24/21

Jan 11(Sat)

Light pixie dust type snow last night transitioning to upslope fluff of varying rates today. Some sun visible as well at times. Increasing winds. Low cloud deck over the high ground late day.