Allegheny Mountains Weather

Canaan Cam offline

Feb 17(Sun)              min.      max      avg

Bitt 2nw Valley

Garrett College

New Germany SP

Can-Heights

CRN-Canaan

Cabin Mt

Cabin Mt north

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Can-Valley Floor

Can-Valley Floor N

7Springs

Partly sunny start, clouding up mid morning,,light freezing rain briefly late morning, a lull then it picked up mid afternoon and everything became a glaze into the evening. Using temp profile below, easy to pick out the areas impacted.

Temp profile this afternoon

Radar

Satellite

Flow

Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow

Canaan Cam offline

Feb 16(Sat)              min       max       avg

Bitt 2nw Valley

Garrett College

Can-Heights

CRN-Canaan

Cabin Mt

Cabin Mt north

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Can-Valley Floor

Can-Valley Floor N

7Springs

Few clouds this morning early, giving way to blue skies. A rarity over the past year. More clouds south and north. (See Satellite) as well as southern Wv with a little snow(see radar)

Temp profile this afternoon

Radar

Satellite

Flow

Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow

Snowcover, north central Garrett County and points north, and northeast. These are the typical cutoff zones of where winter in these big SE ridge patterns can survive a little.

Satellite today, some clouds in this image but snowcover visible

Here’s a look from near Swanton

New Germany State Park

Grantsville area

Springs Pa

South of Grantsville, Amish Road to Bittinger 2nw Valley. As you go south here, open areas are bare, wooded, sheltered areas with snowcover

Deep Creek Lake , snowcover all pretyy well gone in this area, lake iced over well yet with ice fishermen out . 

Also refer to the webcam videos above with the difference of snowcover from Northern Garrett to Rt 40 Elementary. Those typical boundaries at play and the upcoming pattern throws these same boundaries in play more.

Canaan Cam offline

Feb 15(Fri)               min       max       avg

Bitt 2nw Valley

Garrett College

Can-Heights

CRN-Canaan

Cabin Mt

Cabin Mt north

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Can-Valley Floor

Can-Valley Floor N

7Springs

Lots of clouds, windy, few light widely scattered showers, turning cooler late

Temp profile this afternoon

Radar

Satellite

Flow

Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow

Canaan Cam offline

Feb 14(Thur)            min      max     avg

Bitt 2nw Valley

Garrett College

Can-Heights

CRN-Canaan

Cabin Mt

Cabin Mt north

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Can-Valley Floor

Can-Valley Floor N

7Springs

Mainly clear start going into a mostly overcast late morning and day

Temp profile this afternoon

 

Radar void

Satellite

Flow

Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow

 

Pics today

Dans Rock on Dans Mt 4:45pm

Photos by Erik Peterson on Dans Mt

Photo by Melissa Stevens Nash at Monroe Run Overlook

Rt 40 cam down due to power outage in the area. Replaced todsy with FSU cam

Canaan Cam offline

Feb 13(Wed)             min        max      avg

Bitt 2nw Valley

Garrett College

Can-Heights

CRN-Canaan

Cabin Mt

Cabin Mt north

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Can-Valley Floor

Can-Valley Floor N

7Springs

Snowshowers, very windy, few breaks in cloud cover. Some heavier pockets of snow. Last night, the heavy hit ice zones lost some ice with the 2-2.5 hours of above freezing. Some ice remained and some of the valleys east of Meadow Mt and areas east of Meadow held onto most of their ice. Resulting in downed trees. power outages.

Temp profile this afternoon

Radar

Snowfall- Picked up 1.2″ overnight at Bittinger 2nw Valley through 6am with another .6″ today

Satellite

Flow

Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow

Pics today

Pic by Sam Miller of Dans Mt

Pic by Brian Brennan on Savage Mt

Canaan Cam offline

Feb 12(Tues)             min      max      avg

Bitt 2nw Valley

Garrett College

Can-Heights

CRN-Canaan

Cabin Mt

Cabin Mt north

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Can-Valley Floor

Can-Valley Floor N

7Springs

Cloudy day, fog at times, strong SE,E flow. Sleet ovenight with freezing rain. Freezing rain today, continuing beyond 9pm in areas  Heaviest freezing rain 2pm-8pm.

Temp profile this afternoon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Radar

Snowfall- Picked up .3″ Sleet overnight at Bittinger 2nw Valley . 61.5″ on the season

Satellite

Flow

Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pics today

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3km Nam the far superior model in these setups, but the ICON-model has been doing a decent job as well.

Speaking of 3km Nam . Looking at wind gust tonight into tomorrow. In the 40-50mph range with higher in the higher exposed Wv mts. Also easy to pic out the milder west flow entering Garrett County after 9pm

NWS continued struggles with this setup

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The forecast yesterday showed this going to plain rain by 8-9am, and 10am. No model data available to the public supported that. The 3km Nam ran temps at or below freezing until 6-8pm. And it often is a tad fast exiting it, and tonight we saw Mchenry run to 8pm freezing, New Germany State Park beyond 9pm. 12 hours later than the NWS forecast. They changed it this morning to 3pm, with Winter Storm warning ending at 1pm, then switched to 4pm.  Why it was not extended again, and why it was not extended yesterday through the evening hours is again based off a poor system they use to project temps. This has been a repetitive fail on a consistent basis for years in their forecast.

Canaan Cam offline

Feb 11(Mon)              min     max       avg

Bitt 2nw Valley

Garrett College

Can-Heights

CRN-Canaan

Cabin Mt

Cabin Mt north

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Can-Valley Floor

Can-Valley Floor N

7Springs

Snow transitioned to mainly light rain pre dawn. Some wet flakes mixed in around 9am. Mainly light rain today. Temps began falling 3-6pm and freezing rain commenced. Western areas later. After dark snow/sleet Savage Mt, freezing rain west.

Temp profile this afternoon

Radar

Snowfall-picked up 1.2″ at Bittinger 2nw Valley through 7am. Snow at that time had been light rain a few hours. 61.2″ on the season

Satellite

Flow

Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow

Pics today

Canaan Cam offline

Feb 10(Sun)             min.     max      avg

Bitt 2nw Valley

Garrett College

Can-Heights

CRN-Canaan

Cabin Mt

Cabin Mt north

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Can-Valley Floor

Can-Valley Floor N

7Springs

Day started off clear, calm, very cold valleys. Clouds built, thickened, lowered through the day with snow breaking out mid to late afternoon (4pm+/-) and steady into the evening.

Temp profile this afternoon, milder surge into Tucker area

Radar

Snowfall – Through 6pm boardsweep .7″ had fell at Bittinger 2nw Valley. I went ahead and did this measurement as temps expected to creep up by next measurement at 6am.

Satellite

Flow

Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow

Pics

As the snow began

 

Canaan Cam offline

Feb 9(Sat)                 min       max      avg

Bitt 2nw Valley

Garrett College

Can-Heights

CRN-Canaan

Cabin Mt

Cabin Mt north

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Can-Valley Floor

Can-Valley Floor N

7Springs

Clouds, sun early with light scattered fluffy snow showers in morning. Light trace amounts.. This gave way to a mostly sunny afternoon.

Temp profile this afternoon

Radar

Satellite

Flow

Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow

On the models..

Posting more detail on Facebook page

Canaan Cam offline

Feb 8(Fri)              min       max.     avg

Bitt 2nw Valley

Garrett College

Can-Heights

CRN-Canaan

Cabin Mt

Cabin Mt north

Spruce Knob

Snowshoe

Can-Valley Floor

Can-Valley Floor N

7Springs

Cloudy, windy, rain overnight, turning colder at dawn. A brief snowshower around 8:30 as precip ended. Then windy turning colder as skies broke for the afternoon.

Temp profile this afternoon

Radar with radar estimates past 72 hours

Satellite

Flow

Surface features and 500mb height anomalies and flow

Few pics today…and the surviving snow at Bittinger 2nw Valley