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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.

Yeah, since that map doesn't give any clues to magnitude, I'm not remotely entertaining 2012 level warmth.

Well yeah, since March 2012 was 12 above average, I’d say it’s unlikely we challenge it, lol. 5 above isn’t even close, ha!

Doubt we get to either of those two extremes. You literally picked the most extreme Marchs to compare this one to. i'd relax expectations if I were you.

^Chill. It was a good ride, and they don't last for months on end. We got three solid months of winter that actually spanned the winter months. I'm grateful.

Yeah, only 5" less than Erie, and 11" more than Cleveland! Amazing!

Nice to see us in the top 10 snowiest major areas in the Northeast.

Early summer last year was pretty low dew point. About half way through the early July heat wave is when the dew points rose.

Come May I’m ready for heat.

Officially dropped to 2 this morning.

NWS is not too enthusiastic about tonight's snow.

Yes, at least 3, we can all breath a sigh of relief, lol.

Yes, but it’s again not impossible clearly. I just feel the incredible averageness of this year is more notable than anything.

I'm not the one worried about having no extreme cold, lol. I'm just pointing out some interesting weather facts.

You are really hung up on these extreme temperatures. This has been an exceptionally un-extreme temperature winter in both directions. Just 1 day has reached the 60s from December-today. Likely we won’t reach 60 before February ends. There are only 8 seasons where Dec.-Feb. did not reach 60 at all (1878-1879, 1925-1926, 1935-1936, 1963-1964, 1969-1970, 1981-1982, 1986-1987 and 2009-2010). That kind of shows how anomalous only one 60 degree days is in those three months (and it was a low 60s day). You are very stuck on the lack of extreme cold, which itself is odd, but you are missing the lack of extreme warmth also. It is just a weirdly average winter temperature season.