Upslope effect

Found this nice article via a link from the Whitegrass website:

http://www.roanoke.com/weather/wb/wb/xp-88513

For many of the people here this is probably stuff you already know, but I thought it was a nice article to give to people who just don't believe that we get any snow in the midA!

Thanks for the link -- nice read.

That was interesting....Thanks

nice info. Obviously the weather is affected by geography, but thats about as much as I know cool to read more details why the Allegany front gets dumped on when the other side of it gets next to nothing. All resorts on the Allegany front enjoy tons of freshies because of it, and horde all the snow from coming east it seems. wisp, tl/cv, blue knob, 7S all seem to get about equal amounts of snowfall since they are on the front. altho seems like TL/CV get a little more with a 160" annual average! Thats pretty damn amazing for something thats only 3hrs from northern va!

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Correction: Blue Knob is NOT on the "Allegany" (sic) Front. Blue Knob sets well to the East of the Allegheny Front, which is why it receives significantly less snowfall than the ski areas along the Allegheny Front.

BK is on the same ridge and is the highest point on that ridge and the second highest point in the state. BK is clearly visible from the "subcontinental divide" which is at about 2600ft on Rt64 (about 3-4 miles west of blue knob) or whatever it is. Since it is so high it still receives benefit from the upslope effect. Look how much more snow is on the ground at BK compared to the mountains on the other side of I99.