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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
353 PM EDT SUN MAY 12 2013

A FEW SNOW FLAKES WERE SEEN AROUND DAWN SUNDAY...MAY 12TH...ON
THE MOUNTAINTOP AT SNOWSHOE IN POCAHONTAS COUNTY.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COOPERATIVE OBSERVER RECORDED A TRACE
OF SNOWFALL.  THERE WAS NO ACCUMULATION.

IN THE RELATIVELY SHORT HISTORY OF SNOWSHOE...THE LATEST
MEASURABLE SNOW IN THE SPRING WAS ON MAY 21ST BACK IN 2002. THERE
WAS 1.5 INCHES OF SNOWFALL...WITH AN INCH OF ACCUMULATION ON THE
GROUND.

YET...THAT IS NOT THE LATEST KNOWN IN THE MOUNTAIN STATE. THE
LATEST MEASURABLE SNOW CAME FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
COOPERATIVE OBSERVER AT PICKENS IN RANDOLPH COUNTY. ON JUNE
1ST...IN 1910...2 INCHES OF SNOW WAS MEASURED THERE.


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