Gordo74

Ended up at 8.25" after 3 rounds of lake effect this morning. Now the cold really setting in. Feels a ton like winter. Couldn't be happier.

It’s been sitting right over my place in northwest Westmoreland all morning. Moderate to heavy at times. Picked up another 1.5” so far with it still going. Sitting at 8”. It’s wonderful.

Finished just over 6.5” with a small potential for a bit of extra today with lake effect. What a wonderful storm!

4.25” of snow here so far. I’ll have to remember how good December has been when it’s 50 and raining later this week and the landscape has turned back to grey and brown.

Westmoreland WSW updated to 5-7”. Seems like they see something.

Quietest I’ve ever seen this board with a WSW

That's a great question and there was plenty of speculation, but the fact remains that it was Smith's demands specific to Gateway getting King that led to the situation. Should some blame go to the school board? Absolutely. But that doesn't mean that Smith shouldn't be blamed as well. From my understanding (I haven't followed PSU football in awhile), there seems to be an unhappy subset of fans too that see his pins as a political play/attempt to strong-arm Penn State and.... hey... I suppose it worked for him once with Gateway, why not again with Penn State?

As a Gateway graduate during that time and as someone who was there during the "Justin King" debacle - it was just that. A debacle. King went to the school board early on and told them that they had to invest heavily in the football facilities or he was taking King elsewhere. Gateway did - gluttonously so at the direction of Smith. So much so that the academics suffered and still continue to 20 years later/never recovered. Just take a look at where they rank now amongst western PA schools - quite a far cry from just before Smith took over. There's no excuse to have Pentium 2's running Windows 95 when the new weight room has Xbox 360's on every TV. There was no money left for anything outside of football, but they had new everything all the time with everything paid for, despite other sports playing with broken down equipment and non-athletic organizations having to self-finance. Then Smith skedaddled as soon as King went to PSU and left Gateway in the lurch. No mentoring of anyone, no hope for continued success. Just trying every way he could to get King ahead. He was a diva and a selfish one at that, plain and simple. On top of that, and VERY UNFORTUNATELY, any time anyone said a word against him or his approach, it was turned into a race discussion. It had nothing to do with race imo, and everything to do with him taking the piss out of Gateway for all they were worth. I suppose he's done okay at PSU, but in Monroeville? He's still public enemy #1 for taking a Blue Ribbon school and shifting focus to football, wringing them dry, and taking the midnight train away. And that's from someone who went to Gateway AND Penn State.

Looks like the cool down keeps getting bumped just to the horizon of the 10 day forecast and not lining up with precip. Ho hum.

https://paweatheraction.com/polar-vortex-favorable-conditions-setting-up-a-cold-snowy-december/ Seems like there's the beginning of smoke. Hopefully something shapes up.

There was a freeze warning here in Westmoreland a week or two before this one, hence my confusion. I believe it hit it too. Maybe not enough to be considered "killing"?

Another freeze warning here in Westmoreland. I thought after the first one they consider the growing season "over" and then no more until next growing season? Can someone educate?

Looks like we'll hit #4 here if forecast holds. Almost lost it yesterday, but got to 60.4F.

Ended up with 3.2” of rain throughout the 12 hr period. The storm around 8:30 pm had a rate of nearly 4” an hour at a point.

Nearly 1.2” of rain today in about a 35 min span in Murrysville area. Tons of lightning/thunder too. Nice little daytime storm, but my AC has been working overtime with the warm nights.