TimB

Update to the warm lows: we are now at 8 days with lows in the 60s. No other year in the entire period of record, KPIT or not, has had more than 5 through today’s date. Lastly, today is the 15th day of this year with a high of 75 or above, which is the most through today’s date, pulling ahead of 1945 which had 14. No other year had more than 9. The median number of 75 degree days through today’s date is 2.

Also with the window for measurable snow this month likely closed, the 0.2” we’ve received combined over the past 4 Aprils is the second lowest total April snowfall over a 4 year span (1945-1948 had just a trace in each year).

Potential seems to be increasing for a 6 day stretch next week where PIT doesn’t drop below 60. That has never occurred in April.

Daily record warm low secured (62). This is tied with 3/27/1998 as the only days this early in the season to have a low of 62 or higher in the Pittsburgh International era. This is also already the third day this year with a low in the 60s, moving ahead of last year for the most so early in the season at Pittsburgh International (1952-present). These are the only years to have more than one. Number of days on or before April 3rd to have a low in the 60s at Pittsburgh International: 1952-2024: 4 2025-2026: 5 This is getting to be like the steroid era in baseball.

5th warmest March on record in the Pittsburgh International era (1952-present), just behind 2025 and just ahead of 2024. So 3 of the top 6 in those 74 years have been consecutive.

Update: @RevWarReenactoris out of the hospital but faces a long road ahead. He’s in the care of some good doctors but faces surgery in a few weeks and could be looking at dialysis in the near future. But to be clear, it’s the result of a birth defect, not lifestyle choices. It wasn’t the Big Arch!

The current temperature of 83 at PIT is tied for second warmest March day on record, and is the earliest in the season that we’ve ever reached 83. Edit: we’ve now at least tied the monthly record of 84, set on 3/25/1929.

It’s my understanding that he’s out of the hospital now but facing surgery and uncertain recovery. His house also got damaged by the severe storms the other day, so insult to injury.

Pray for @RevWarReenactor. I have been tasked with the unpleasant duty of informing you all that he is currently in the hospital with a severe kidney stone episode that has possibly led to kidney failure after eating a Big Arch and it’s questionable if he’s going to make it. I know some in this sub don’t see eye to eye with him but he’s still human and some things transcend message board drama.

Yesterday was only the 2nd calendar day on or after March 16th to get 6+” of snow in the past 70 years. The other was of course that day in 2018.

Official NWS obs was 6.3”. We officially got to warning level out of this thing.

Lucking into a semi-respectable March snow total from one overperforming event in what has otherwise been a torchy, April-like month is really something. That puts the official seasonal total over 50”.

Let’s put it this way. The 76 and 75 observed at DCA at 3am and 4am would be a record for those hours in April.

The crazy thing is the 76 observed on the 3am hourly at DCA would be a record April high for that hour at that site, and we’re still in the first half of March.

High of 78 ties with 2/20/2018 and 3/5/2004 for warmest high on or before 3/7, low of 60 is the 2nd warmest low on or before 3/7 behind 1/22/1906, daily mean of 69 is the warmest daily mean ever recorded at Pittsburgh on or before March 7th.

As of now, the high at PIT is either 78 or 79 depending on rounding. We have never reached 79 this early in the season.

If you throw out those two erroneous data points, the highest dewpoint ever observed at PIT prior to March 15th was 61 on 1/8/1998. We could be reaching levels of humidity on Saturday that are unprecedented so early in the season.

Awesome, I’m sure that translates to copious amounts of snow on the models and ensembles. Let me go check!

You sure you’re not thinking about 2022?

Wow highs in the upper 30s to low 40s and September equivalent sun angle. I’m pumped for winter’s last ride.

I’ll take #20 please.

PIT has also very likely clinched all 3 winter months of below normal temps, but above normal snowfall for Feb seems like a bridge too far.

Need 0.6” overnight to clinch that above normal snow season and get that out of the way before the March megatorch.

As of 4pm, PIT needed 1.3” additional snow to clinch an above normal snowfall season. That would seem to be pretty much a guarantee with whatever falls from this event from 4pm onward, the Tuesday night event, the Thursday event, and the early next week event.

Did they just ignore the entire 0z model suite?