Wet start, to a white finish. Rain in the morning, few ice pellets as it started, then rain to snow in the evening hours. Rapidly whitening things and accumulating and covering roadways in areas.
Bittinger 2nw Valley
Snowfall late today will be tallied tomorrow(to note .8 fell through 7pm)
Snowfall season to date 71.5″ -again what fell today will be tallied tomorrow
Garrett College
Station remains down
Cherry Creek along Mosser Rd
live from top of Wisp
Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE
Precip 0 7am
Snowfall began evening, will be tallied tomorrow. This amount did top 100″ for the site
Steady rain all day with slowly falling temperatures. Rain changed to snow at 530PM, quickly becoming moderate or heavy, then tapering off and ending by late evening. Turning sharply colder
photo by Dave Lesher
Climate Reference Network Canaan
Cabin Mt at Bald Knob
Cabin Mt-Western Sods
Spruce Knob
Snowshoe
Canaan Valley Refuge
7Springs
Cumberland Airport
The Valley vs Cabin Mt
Canaan area temps
Comparison view
RTMA
Radar
Satellite
Flow
Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow
Clearing and colder overnight. Yesterday’s max temp of 36 equals the lowest daily max ever recorded here in May (May 19, 2002) since daily temperature recordkeeping commenced in Oct 1998
Climate Reference Network Canaan
Cabin Mt at Bald Knob
Cabin Mt-Western Sods
Spruce Knob
Snowshoe
Canaan Valley Refuge
7Springs
Cumberland Airport
The Valley vs Cabin Mt
Canaan area temps
Comparison view
RTMA
Radar
Satellite
Flow
Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow
First snowflakes seen 725AM. 35F. 10AM: Cloudy and 35F. Periods of light snow past two hours briefly dropped temp to 33F. No accumulation. 7PM: Cloudy and 32F. Off and on light or very light snow all afternoon produced no accumulation. 10PM: Cloudy and 33F. No snow past three hours
Climate Reference Network Canaan
Cabin Mt at Bald Knob
Cabin Mt-Western Sods
Spruce Knob
Snowshoe
another graph error. .all data was collected though
Canaan Valley Refuge
7Springs
Cumberland Airport
The Valley vs Cabin Mt
Canaan area temps
Comparison view
RTMA
Radar
Satellite
Flow
Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow
Chilly, dreary start, fog, some light rain on n off, especially late day. Possibly a few flakes at times in the Wv high ground. High N.C mts got coated white.
Heavy rain overnight, showers today. Some minor flooding on localized spots in the area.
Bittinger 2nw Valley
Snowfall season to date 71.5″
Marsh Marigolds
Marsh Marigolds
May Apple
Overall month graph and data
Average Monthly Max 51.9°
Warmest temp was 64.7° on the 5th
Coldest Max was 36.7 on the 10th
Average Monthly Min 31.4°
Coldest temp was 23.6 on the 17th
Warmest min was 42.6 on the 30th
Average Mean 41.6°
True Average 41.7°
The month had 19 dates below freezing. In March, there were a total of 15 days below freezing. April mins ended up 1.0° colder than March. Maxes were .8° warmer than. Overall mean temp was below March, but the monthly true average was .4° higher than March. Only 3 dates had mins exceeding 40°.
For comparison this was March 2020
Garrett College
The station really had lots of technical difficulty the last few weeks. I was told it was a bad port connection. Lots of missed data, both temp and precip unfortunately.
Todays max temp was unrecorded as it likely occured just after midnight. Also heavy rain occured just after midnight.
Monthly graph view, again does not contain enough data to make a good monthly data set from
Third wettest April since precip records commenced here in October 2001. Prior Aprils that had greater precip were 8.77 in. in 2002 and 10.99 in. in 2011. See Table 13.1 below. Also third coolest April since temperature records commenced in October 1998. See Table 12.3 below
Climate Reference Network Canaan
Monthly graph
Average Monthly Max 51.3
Warmest Max was 69.4 on the 29th
Coldest Max was 34.8 on the 10th
Average Monthly Min was 32.5
Coldest min was 22.0 on the 15th
Warmest min was 47.3 on the 7th
April 2020 was colder than March 2020, a quick look back at March 2020
Cabin Mt at Bald Knob
Monthly graph
Average monthly max 48.1
Warmest max was 62.4 on the 29th
Coldest max was 29.8 on the 10th
Average monthly min 30.7
Coldest min was 16.7 on the 15th
Warmest min was 49.5 on the 29th
April 2020 was colder than March 2020 overall
A quick look back to March
Cabin Mt-Western Sods
Monthly graph
Average Monthly Max 49.2
Warmest Max was 63.5 on the 12th
Coldest Max was 31.5 on the 10th
Average monthly min 31.9
Coldest min was 18.5 on the 15th
Warmest min was 49.6 on the 29th
Overall on par with March. April’s mean was slightly higher in April and the overall average equaled that of March.
A quick look at March 2020
Spruce Knob
Monthly graph
Average monthly max 46.7
Warmest max was 62.1 on the 29th
Coldest max was 27.7 on the 10th
Average min was 29.7
Coldest min was 15.8 on the 15th
Warmest min was 44.2 on the 29th
Overall April 2020 ended up colder than March 2020.
A quick look back to March
Snowshoe
once again a morning graph error
Monthly graph-* like Garrett College, this station simply had too much missed data this month
Canaan Valley Refuge
Monthly graph
Average monthly Max 53.4
Warmest max was 68.0 on the 29th
Coldest max was 36.5 on the 10th
Average monthly min was 27.2
Coldest min was 14.4 on the 19th * coldest of listed sites
Warmest min was 41.4 on the 30th, to note, the next warmest min was 38.3, and all others were in the 33° and colder range
Overall April 2020 colder than March 2020 thanks to those cold mins. Maxes were slightly higher. I believe maxes on high solar days are very much aided by the open, yet brown heat absorbing Valley location
Comparison to March 2020
7Springs
Monthly graph
Cumberland Airport
Monthly graph
The Valley vs Cabin Mt
Monthly Comparison
Canaan area temps
Comparison view
Monthly Comparison
RTMA
Radar
Satellite
Flow
Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow
The morning consisted of a sunny start west, a foggy, dreary start east. That gave way to some brief sun, but cloud cover rapidly took over with rain pushing in by evening.
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