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Only made it to 72 yesterday. Cloud cover and spotty rain hindered the warming. Still a nice day though.

Also looking very windy on Friday. Is it me or has March become windier? Just seems most days this month have had high winds.

Officially the warmest day of the year. Hit 69 so far. Update: First 70 degree day. Currently 71. High today: 73! Beautiful today.

We needed a Spring forum, since it looks like winter is totally over.

Lol, all in good fun. I will say, I wanted to see that -15 too, but I like extreme wintry records in winter and very summery ones in summer. So, while I'd like to see -15, I also would like to see 100. So, I guess the answer to your previous question, I guess that for every one person that loves 90 and a 70 dew point, there's one that loves 0 and a -20 wind chill.

Should we have a spring/summer forum started?

Says the guy that wanted it to be -15, lol!

Surprised there's no fire weather warnings up today. Dew point is in the low teens. I guess that 2" of rain helped supress that risk, but wow that dew point is low. Wish it was like that in the summer.

Yes, the number of 6"+ storms was great. I couldn't ask for more at all. Plus, February having at least 4" of snow on the ground for 3 solid weeks was great.

Such a beautiful St. Patrick's Day!

Ok...I only care about the snow total at the end of the season. 55" contained mostly between December and February is pretty perfect. It was a great winter. My point was, if we get low totals for March, that's just the way it goes, I didn't mean literally that .1" is the only way this could go.

Just the way it goes. Good thing we got 55” over the winter.

Beautiful March day today!

I'd be floored if parts of the state received 4 feet of snow over the two weeks.

68 currently. Might we reach 70?

Officially the warmest day of the year at 64.

My point is once we get into late March, I'm done with snow. So, once it warms up next week, I'd like it to stay.

Eh, at this point I'm good. It's March, so I'm ready for a warm up. Tuesday and Wednesday next week are looking nice.

That’s why taking one run and accepting it isn’t the best plan.

55" basically averages out the the what 22-25" last year.

But if we get a top 10 or top 15 winter every winter, then we make the totals almost impossible to actually achieve at some point. There's around 140 years of weather history in Pittsburgh, if we get a top 20 or top 30 snowy winter that's pretty damn good. Do we all want top 10 years, absolutely, but we have to celebrate small victories.

This was a phenomenal winter. I'm totally happy. This dry stretch coming up will be a nice way to start meterological Spring. Sunny skies return and not brutally cold for March, very seasonable.

Since it was only the 1st yesterday, I would have said we still had a good shot at seeing snow before the month was over.

It was late March and 10". Regardless of duration it was impressive. Possibly the latest 10" storm on record, so record setting for you. March '18 had 12.3" (with that storm), '17 had 9.7", '15 had 9", '13 had 15.2", your record warm 2012 had 6" of snow. So, in the last decade we had 4 Marchs with above average snow, a few that are just a few inches below average, and even less with almost no snow. So, Winter does not just abruptly end every year, in fact it feels as if it frequently drags into March more often than not. You need to stop expecting record events in every month and every season.

Anyway, snowing pretty hard right now. Ground is now white. Definitely a surprise.