TimB

Our lows for 2/22-24 were all in the 50s. That month was our 13th consecutive month above normal (the streak got to 18 before August clocked in below normal).

Ah, looks like the February 2017 heat wave wasn’t as significant an event for you as it was for us.

Also the aforementioned 1/22/1906. Normals are currently 36/21. That day was 75/61.

The 59 ties for a record warm low for February and #2 for met winter, after 1/22/1906 (61). Also, there are days as late as 3/9 with record warm lows in the 40s at PIT and days as late as 4/4 with record warm lows in the 50s.

I would guess that 1/19/94 (high of -3 and low of -22) would be the only day that might qualify. I think the normals were somewhere around 33/18 at that point, so that looks like a -38 departure from those normals.

A footnote to that event: Pittsburgh recorded its warmest day ever in meteorological winter with a high of 78 on the 20th and a +37 temp departure (low of 59). Incredible.

Well the time may be now for me to invest in a weather station and start keeping a spreadsheet. I’d ask my wife to get me one for my birthday but I probably have to enable my own hobby.

Wait a minute, yinz keep spreadsheets? I’m doing this whole weather enthusiast thing all wrong.

Yeah agreed, it won’t happen at the airport tomorrow but maybe Sunday and Monday.

6z GFS was pretty torchy for me.

That’s a beauty. Won’t even clip the image out of the quote.

Oh my, that trough is fantastic.

It ain’t over yet, but it looks like it’s going to kick the ridge out a little faster than the previous run.

Indeed, it’s very eastern focused. I mean I get it, the only really populated place out west where it would be truly interesting to talk about weather would be Denver, but even there, the storms come interspersed among 300 sunny days a year.

I feel like models sometimes show things that aren’t plausible in reality (I’m thinking of a time that the GFS was showing 107 in an area of Florida relatively close to the coast during a SE ridge situation, and a time this past winter when the CMC was showing a low of 14 if I remember correctly for Phoenix). Is it possible that such effects can occur in the PNW? I can’t say I’ve spent any time analyzing how well the models do in that region of the country.

Haven’t had time to do much of the reading yet, but is it possible that his opinions on the matter are being taken out of context and molded to fit an agenda?

Keep that heat up in the Palouse, I don’t want it here.

If his opinion is being promoted by a source so far into the lunatic fringe as The Defender, that says enough.

Re: the second link, I pulled this statement directly from The Defender’s website: Entrenched power centers have politicized, hijacked and openly censored science, hobbling authentic debate over critical issues including vaccines, 5G, glyphosate and other pesticides, climate change, water quality, fluoride and chronic disease. need I say more?

Absolutely. I’ve enjoyed this week tremendously, whether it returns in 3 days or 3 weeks or 3 months won’t diminish from that.

Thanks for the reminder of how miserable last July was. Hopefully this July will allow me to forget. (And not in the way that they say you lose thinking capacity when it’s hot out.)

Not as bad as you guys, it looks like MDT didn’t have an 8 day 90 streak, but there were 13 days there last July that were as hot or hotter than the 94 we reached.

We strung 8 of them together in Pittsburgh from the 3rd to the 10th, so I believe that.

Big disclaimer there. It’s the high end of potential guidance for sure, and not yet fully a trend.

Well technically we hit 98 once in 2012 and 97 on 3 other days in 2012, but again that’s the only year out of the past 25 where we got that hot (on the flip side, we’ve had 4 years in that time period including two in a row that never got to 90). That’s after 3 years in a row from 1993-1995 that all got to at least 97 here. It’s incredible how little of the truly ridiculous summer heat we’ve gotten in recent times. ”We” meaning Pittsburgh. I didn’t live in PA at the time, so I’m only going off of data here.