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Well the GFS through the 17th would be a very welcome site. 

Dud of a day down here.

Patterns looks to be ending soon.  Wonder if it will come back.  My worry is it will return in the Spring and delay the start.

4 at KPIT for the 10pm update.

Dew points are starting to drop, down to -4.  How low do the actual temperatures make it tonight? I say we end up around-5 to -8.

Officially, went below 0 this morning.  
 

But when Lake Charles, LA gets a blizzard warning more recently than us, that’s…something.

Looks like a little Squallish weather to move in.

But honestly, we go from winters where we're too far south for the good to too far north.  We need a good old middle ground winter.  Maybe soon.  Not that this one's been bad, just funny every major storm has missed south this year, after years of waiting for more southern solutions.

Nice burst again.  Too bad KPIT isn't getting this, so totals will officially be pretty low.

Had a nice blast in the south hills.

Plus the next week doesn’t look that great to rebuild, right?  Cold but not much precip.

Pretty gross out.  If the snow pack can hold, and we can maybe get an inch tomorrow we could see that crazy cold.  If it doesn’t I’d expect temps to be at least 5 degrees warmer than forecast.

10 minutes ago, Rd9108 said:

94 -22 all time low. 

Interesting, so we’ve never been below -10 in my lifetime.  I was born a year later.  Let’s do it!

NWS has a low of -12 on Tuesday night.  When was the last time we actually went below -10?  I know we hit that a few times in fairly recent years, but below that, I don’t know?

Any hope we can squeak out snow on Sunday to aid the brutal cold Monday and Tuesday?  I just worry we’ll lose a good bit of the snow pack on Saturday.

South Hills are bad too.

19 minutes ago, Rd9108 said:

City roads are atrocious right now. Makes me very concerned if we actually get a decent storm. 

Yeah, the City has been an absolute disaster this winter.  Since the 1st I've seen one salt truck and I live on a major artery.  I'm not sure I'll get to work tomorrow, at least not in the morning.  This is unacceptable.

2 hours ago, Rd9108 said:

It's only Tuesday I wouldn't count out any snow before the Siberian express comes to visit. 

Oh, not counting anything out, just not sure what we actually have in store for the weekend.  Seeing warmer temps, but no snow on the point and clicks and then writes seem to be talking about snow, with no real mention of the brief warm up.  Just confused is all.  If the Euro is to be believed, could be interesting times ahead.

I feel we’ll lose a good bit of the snow pack Saturday, and if we can’t build any back Saturday night into Sunday, the extreme cold forecast will be a bit more moderate.

I guess since the warm month streak is likely over, we don't need to know, lol.  All in good fun.

3 hours ago, Rd9108 said:

If you like winter, well you are in luck for the next few weeks. Obviously still have to be lucky for storm track, baroclinic boundary etc but that's quite a signal from the GFS. Let's hope the Steelers can pull out a win in the meantime. 

That's looking better than the game so far.

I think it’s high time for a coaching change.  This one and done in the playoffs is really old.

This was alright I guess.  A nice freshening up for sure.  CPC seems to think the back half of the month should be cold and wetter than normal.  Late January might be our time for a better storm.  Maybe the 18th-20th we need to look at.

I also wonder if this could be one of those rare Januarys that fails to reach 50 degrees. It's early, but the extended looks to stay cold.

13 minutes ago, Burghblizz said:

I don’t know - it’s thumping pretty good here relatively speaking. Pushing an inch and it really just started here around 7:30. Roads covered. Snowpack freshened up .Nice night overall. 

Well, doing nothing in the City, so it’s unfortunate.

4 minutes ago, north pgh said:

Light snow is starting now. That snow hole (dry slot) that was showing on all the models has held tight for the last 2+ hours. 

Yeah, figures, lol.

The fog looks like it’s giving the trees a little glaze out there.  Don’t recall seeing fog at this cold a temperature before.