by Bill Peterson
To Paraphrase: There’s no business like snow business, and for your local Canaan Heights weather reporter, curtain time is 7 am every morning. Some of my performances warrant jubilation and standing ovations; others jeers and sneers. It depends greatly on your take on the numbers.
As the National Weather Service official Canaan Heights observer, it is my job to record the day’s temperature and precipitation–including snow–each morning. Each report covers the measurements from 7:01 am yesterday through 7 am today and carries today’s date. About the 15th of the month, I wondered about the longest contiguous stretch with measurable snowfall.
Dave Lesher, former intrepid NWS Canaan Heights observer, sent me his daily data, beginning January 1st, 2002. From 2002 through 2024 there were several 12-day snows and one stretch that lasted 13 days. Note: this data is from 3,700+ feet, not from lower in Canaan Valley where some earlier weather recordings exist.
I can now tell you–Davis just experienced a record 22 days with measurable snow every day. Finally, Wednesday, January 22, 2025, dawned sunny with nary a flurry, and the next snow held off till the evening of the 23rd. So, for those interested in records–I being one–we have a new record to record.