I’m just above Allegany county... they’re usually a few degrees warmer than we are as we pick up weather off Erie, ...but dang it never expected to put heat on this early.
Yeah, it depends on elevation and whether you’re on the windward or leeward side of the precip blowing off Erie. Lake effect weather. It might be blue skies and 35 in Cumberland, but 30 and snowing with whiteout conditions in McHenry and Deep Creek Lake. Our house is on the top ridge of which used to be a part of Haystack Mountain before I-68 was cut through. I could start at the lowest elevation on that side of town, and if it was drizzling, I’d drive higher and higher up along the switchbacks until I got in front of our house, and you could literally see the drizzle turning into flurries as you got higher. By the time you peaked the ridge, it would be snow so thick you couldn’t see the lights of town below you. If it was warmer and fog was building, it was like something out of a John Carpenter movie.