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Mid Atlantic members snow totals thread winter 2012/2013


Midlo Snow Maker

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Not sure if this post should be in this thread or elsewhere, but I will post it here - just let me know if it should go elsewhere and I will post it there instead. This is good data just not data from members but should be of interest to many of you in the region.

 

Total March 2013 snowfall amounts for several "high country" mid-atlantic sites through Sat, Mar 30, 2013
                                           (see note below about some data only through 3/29)
Not much snowfall the past day or so anywhere plus Sunday's precipitation will be rain everywhere as it looks now in the mid-Atlantic so these totals will probably be final for the month. If you all are interested, I could figure out statistics for the entire winter for these sites and post them later here (or wherever you might want me to post them)

 

Elevations of these sites range from about 2000 feet (Sines Deep Creek MD) to about 4800 feet (Snowshoe)

72.1" at Terra Alta WV COOP site
69.6" at the new Canaan Valley 2 WV COOP site
68.9" at Davis 3SE WV COOP site (Dave Lesher's)
62.9" at Laurel Summit PA COOP site
59.0" at Snowshoe WV COOP site
57.5" at Bayard WV COOP site
55.0" at McHenry 4.8 SSE MD cocorahs site

46.5" at Oakland 1SE MD COOP site

43.4" at Sines Deep Creek MD COOP site


Some of these stations didn't post for today (Mar 30) as of the time I accessed the data, but I doubt they got much, if anything at all actually. I noticed in the daily record for Snowshoe that all the daily snowfall amounts were reported as whole inches (for example 9.0", 1.0", 4.0"). Kind of curious that all the numbers should come out even like that. None of the other stations listed worked out that way....

These figures are still preliminary and unofficial - subject to correction due to many factors including my own possible arithmetic errors ( I just fixed one about 24 hours after my original post- Sines Deep Creek had 43.4" not 51.4" as I reported last night originally). Any comments, corrections, questions, observations, other data most welcome..

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Ten inches of snow on the season. We got seven inches of that in March. March featured three events: 3.5 inches, 1 inch, and 2.5 inches.

 

From December thru February we saw many car top events and one clipper in particular dumped a whopping 1.5 inches. It was tough cartopping our way to 3 inches by the end of February, but we managed it.

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That's good stuff, Kevin.  Thanks for the time putting it together.

 

I'm not sure I buy the difference between Terra Alta and Oakland/McHenry.  Aren't they at basically the same elevation, and isn't Terra Alta like 10 miles west of Oakland?  The rest make sense, but that one seems high in comparison.

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I'm not sure I buy the difference between Terra Alta and Oakland/McHenry.  Aren't they at basically the same elevation, and isn't Terra Alta like 10 miles west of Oakland?  The rest make sense, but that one seems high in comparison.

Great point Matt. My friends and I have visited both places, and we can't believe there can be that much difference between the two locations. It boils down to the observer and the techniques they employ, including frequency of observation, to help explain the differences. I believe Terra Alta is at about 2600 feet and Oakland is at about 2400 feet, which essentially is the same elevation. And they are roughly 10-15 miles apart, running east-west basically.

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Odd winter-- I think ROA beat BCB and LYH beats Bedford-- most of Appomattox county is above Climo too..

Season snow total 9.4" here about 20 miles west of Lynchburg. Last Sunday was the biggest storm of the year with 6.5" followed by March 5-6 with 1.3".

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0.1 on 12/22

3.0 on 12/26

0.6 on 12/29

3.0 on 01/18

0.2 on 01/24

1.0 on 01/25

0.4 on 01/31

0.8 on 02/01

1.8 on 02/03

0.1 on 02/04

0.5 on 02/08

0.2 on 02/22

4.5 on 03/06

0.6 on 03/07

0.3 on 03/14

0.2 on 03/18

6.3 on 03/25

0.2 on 03/26

0.1 on 03/27

2.0 on 04/05

25.9 for season, 1.0 short of a normal year

over half has fallen since 03/01

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  • 3 years later...
On ‎3‎/‎25‎/‎2013 at 4:07 PM, North Balti Zen said:

12/24/12 -- .2
12/26/12 -- 1.8
12/29/12-- .3

1/24/13 - .5

1/28/13 - T

2/1/13 - .3

2/2/13 - .5

2/3/13 - T

2/13/13 - .8

2/28 - 3/4 - Several Ts

3/6 - 1

3/25 - 3.4



Seasonal total as of 2/01/13 -- 8.8 inches spread over around 12 "events".

 

Still pretty awful. This morning was fun but doesn't affect my view that this winter has blown.

Bump. 

This winter also pretty much sucked.

Really, the gap between the Jan. 2011 paste bomb and the late March 2013 storm was as bad as it gets in my part of Balt City for sustained futility. Hoping we are not in another run like that. That was 26 months between warning criteria storms, and, really, it wasn't until the following winter that really broke through.

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