WVclimo

Warm muggy night in rural WV with neighborhood fireworks going off from several directions. Guess it’s the pre-Memorial Day weekend celebration ? Actually it will be every weekend from now through the summer. Not sure the stands are open so these must be from surplus stock ?

Still 80 here at the 8:53 p.m. ob, after a high of 85. Had to put on the AC. Looking forward to a week of 60’s/ 70’s and soaking rain.

Laying in all the vegetables this weekend. Late start this year, but it worked out with all the freezing weather in May so far. Haven't grown potatoes in a few years, but we recovered a large (50'x8') raised bed that we had let grow over and added some additional soil and peat last weekend. Should yield a fair amount of Yukon golds if the bugs leave us alone. Two other 50'x50' patches are turned and have trenches dug ready to plant beans and onions, and hills mounded for squash, cukes, melons, cantaloupes. Tomatoes and peppers doing well in the cold house. Hoping the soil warms soon, as we are putting them in the ground Saturday as well. All the lettuces and herbs being grown in trays and pots/ buckets this year.

A frosty 28 degrees here this morning.

Looks like MRB tied the record for the coldest high temperature for any day in the month of May. Previous dates with a high of 48: 5/1/1963 5/3/1945 5/6/1958 On May 12, 2008 MRB had a high of 49, the latest sub-50 high on record.

48 for a high here. Looks like the same at MRB which breaks the record for the date by 3 degrees. One of the colder days I have ever spent on the lawn tractor with wind chills in the 30’s and wind gusts consistently 35-40 mph.

Flurries blowing around on a gusty wind. 43 degrees

31.9 for my low.

Soaking rain here now at 49 degrees. The airport hit 53 earlier this afternoon, missing today's low max record by 2 degrees. My high was 51.

Going forecast would threaten both low max and low min readings for this area for Saturday. Records for both at MRB are from 1947 with a high of 51 and a low of 28

Briefly fell to 33 degrees overnight before rising before dawn. Had a thin coating of ice on the windshield this morning. Freeze watch out for tomorrow night.

I don’t recall anything from those years, though I know we had a snowfall in 1994 around the 18th of March and then Spring finally arrived with 80° temperatures a few days later. Here is March 1990 at BWI with the very early heat wave from 3/12-16 followed by accumulating snow on the 20th, 24th and 25th.

I saw it go the other way in March 1990. There were three days of temps in the upper 80’s followed by a dump of wet snow a couple of days later. I was in Rockville and the snow accumulated on grass, trees and car tops during the day.

I saw a coating of snow in the high elevations of Garrett County in late May in 1975. The previous day was warm, but thunderstorms and hail moved in late in the afternoon followed by sharply colder temps overnight. I was in 6th grade, staying in a cabin for what was then referred to as "outdoor school," when we spent a week at a camp. No heat in the cabins and none of us had prepared for freezing temps.

Getting rocked here with high wind and torrential rain.

Heavy snow from I-81 west

There are some frigid periods around several of those dates. 1961, 1981, 1985 and 2009 all had below-zero weather in my area within a couple of days of the ones listed.

You can see that a lot of ice mixed in with the snow even up your way, when you see how much liquid produced some of those snowfalls.

Love this time of year. Today’s haul:

Finished with 6.8" on 0.54" of liquid. Big totals weren't far from me. From the PNS: Martinsburg 2 E 11.7 1000 PM 1/13 NWS Employee Martinsburg Arpt 1 N 10.6 1144 PM 1/13 Trained Spotter

2" of new snow this afternoon/ evening. 6.1" storm total. Over 50% of the way to climo for the season !

4.1" from 0.35" of liquid.

2.6" for the day, which puts me right at 10" for the season. Big flakes falling in this band but visibility is still 1.0 mi +

About a half-inch on the ground. Flake size has increased the past few minutes.

Light snow just started. 32 degrees at onset.