TimB

Do I have to come in here and do Blizz’s dirty work?

Lol

With it looking less and less likely that we see another freeze, the final count may stand at 76 for the season. The previous lowest at PIT was 89 in 2016-17. 

With PIT failing to hit freezing this morning, we probably have one more shot at it on Thursday, which is trending warmer. Our last freeze on 4/7 would be tied for 11th earliest last freeze on record.

Looks like simply a warm front to cold front thing. 

10 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

Looks like the nearby personal weather stations had a similar jump at that time. Possible heat burst from collapsing showers? This one Imperial went up above 65F and since cratered below 59F.

Wow that’s a nearly 20 degree jump overnight. 

Not sure I’m buying the temperature observations at PIT this morning. Jumped from 59 to 67 between the 7 and 8 am hourly observations. Everywhere else seemed to stay steady.

Nothing awful. Few sub-severe gusts with the front end of the line as it moved in and some thunder and lightning, mostly several miles away.

Overperformed our way to a 3rd 80 at PIT today. None of the days were forecast to get there.

4th year in a row that the temp has hit 82 before the halfway point of April. This had never happened in 3 consecutive years prior to this streak.

Interesting the way the western end of that line just died. We just seemed pretty starved for moisture which is fine after the last week and a half.

6 minutes ago, Voyager said:

I guess it's time to tell you guys.

This past Tuesday, I lost my mom. She passed peacefully late afternoon. She couldn't overcome the digestive system infection (c diff) that she contracted while in rehab for a broken hip.

I sat with her, holding her hand as she slipped away to the other side, reiterating that I loved her, but that I was ok, and that I wanted her to be pain free, to see again, and be with my dad and brother again.

We had some differences of opinion while I was here, but I hope my being here in Arizona was a comforting factor over the past year and a half that I spent with her.

Sorry to hear, man. I know you did so much for her in her final years.

Officially the wettest spring day on record, surpassing last Tuesday.

Looks like so much more rain to come.

And just like that it’s the 2nd wettest April day ever observed at the airport.

1 hour ago, TheClimateChanger said:

Also, the wettest first 10 days of April on record. This doesn't include the approximately 1/2-inch that's fallen today. We may have a top 10 wettest April on lock by midnight.

Looking at the weather records, there has only been one year with an April among both the 20 warmest and 20 wettest. April 1948 is 13th warmest in the threaded record (54.7F) and fourth wettest (6.03").

We’re now up to 1.52” at the airport today, so we’re already up to 4th with more rain tonight and 19 more days in the month.

9 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

Accuweather suggesting we could approach a record high this afternoon. Yinz stay cool aht thar.

80 feels like such a soft record, considering we’ve been 78 in February and 80 in early March.

20 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

My weather station showed a drop of nearly 8F, with solar radiation plunging to less than 5 W/m^2.

Hmm. Is PIT cooking the books?

Went up to northwest PA and watched the total eclipse. Interesting that the partial eclipse didn’t drop the temp at all at PIT, I thought that was expected even at 97% totality. Looks like Erie went 69 to 55 with the eclipse.

On this day last year it was 85 degrees. Today it’s snowing.

19 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

 

They screwed that up. Whatever they did, it excluded non-leap years. 2020 is actually in 16th place.

Year to date precip is currently in 2nd place behind 2018, which of course was the record year (but a large amount of that precip from 1/1 through early April fell as snow).

Hell of a way to run a moderate risk.

Yesterday’s final official tally of 2.68” makes it the wettest spring day on record for Pittsburgh.

Obligatory “imagine if this was snow” post.