TimB

Mask wearing in the Pittsburgh area still seems to be well over half at most non-food establishments. I still do in most cases, but have no issue with people who don’t. With that being said, here’s something I do have an issue with. The wife and I went to a business last night where we had to wait in line. The line was not very long, but the (maskless, but as I said above, irrelevant now that masks aren’t required anymore) couple behind us insisted on standing no more than 18” behind me. My opinion is that there’s no logical reason from now on to ever stand that close to someone while waiting in line in a place that isn’t packed, pandemic or not, and it’s courteous to maintain that distance because there’s no reason not to (and there are plenty of other respiratory and other types of illnesses that are airborne). But maybe I’m missing something? Maybe someone on here can enlighten me and give me an actual logical reason anyone needs to ever stand that close to someone while waiting in line when there’s plenty of room to be spaced farther away? I’m honestly asking. Edit: I understand people’s desire for things to go “back to normal.” But is it honestly at all logical to feel like things aren’t “back to normal” if you’re not up someone’s ass every time you wait in line somewhere? There are some aspects of the “old normal” that should never come back, in my opinion. This is one of them. Another is five days a week, butt in seat, at office jobs that can be done just as productively at home, but that’s another topic for another day.

I believe a few people died that day in NY and CT.

Oh right, I almost forgot we live in Pittsburgh.

I’m thinking yesterday makes the case for having an official observation site closer to the city than what we have now (even if you keep KPIT as the one that goes in the record books). Then again, KAGC also recorded less than a tenth. But the fact remains, hundreds of thousands of people in or near this city saw a deluge on a day when 0.02” of rain officially fell.

I decided my beef with the winter average for PBZ wasn’t worth it, since 2/3 of the winter occurred in 2021 and should be compared to the new normals, so we had a below normal temperature winter.

Side note: I hate when a chance at a record cold max gets derailed by crap like that (not that this was probably the case at MDT yesterday), but I don’t mind when a chance at a record warm min gets derailed by a late day cold front.

Maybe the highs will come in at -0.3 and the lows at +0.2, but by some sort of rounding magic the average will come out to +0.1.

Severe weather tomorrow?

Has MDT sealed the deal on an above normal May yet?

VAERS is open to any member of the public for submissions, according to what I’ve read. That would imply to me that someone with an agenda could stretch the truth or outright lie.

Are you making the thread for the late week northern MN/WI/MI snow potential?

14 miles as the crow flies. I’m a similar distance in a different direction from Allegheny County Airport, which has recorded 0.05” today.

Sure enough, MDT has now recorded 6.5x as much rain as PIT today, despite the inch and a half I received.

I figured it would rain everywhere today except where Cowboy fans live. Proves that theory wrong.

8”, even in Wisconsin, is a WSW in most cases. Can confirm, I’ve also lived there. (But probably not on 5/27 when that kind of accumulation couldn’t occur on roadways under any condition.)

8+ inches Kuchera in NE WI?!

And weather station data seems to back that up. Most locations in my part of the county are over an inch, most locations near the airport (14 miles away as the crow flies) are at no more than a few hundredths.

And yes, the total so far at KPIT as of their last hourly observation was 0.02”.

Oh God, could MDT out-rain PIT today? A solid inch and a half imby and 0.02” at the airport.

I second that. Dewpoints are already into the upper 60s at PIT and AGC, where it hasn’t rained much yet. Still raining imby.

Looks like the airport received 0.02” from that storm (I’m certain I got much more than that in the north hills), so no matter what happens the rest of the day the streak is officially over at 14 days without measurable precip.

Finally heard thunder!

Going to be a race to see if that batch makes it here in time to prevent us from officially reaching 2 weeks without measurable rain. Edit: it didn’t.

NWS still doesn’t fully believe the hype and still keeps us in the low 70s during that period (albeit with rain, but maybe not a washout). But if this relative consensus among the models holds, we know forecasting 70 with a chance of rain is just the NWS forecasting conservatively and that’ll get revised downward.

I agree that the timing of cold, rainy weather this month has left much to be desired. And I’m not even sure we’ll make 60 every day next weekend. GFS and Euro have 47 and 53 at 18z Friday, Euro and CMC have 58 and 55 at 18z Saturday, and CMC has 48 at 18z Sunday. The good news for you (and frankly me, as I’d be happier with 70 than either 50 or 90) is that the GFS, which predicted this pattern shift first, gets us back to 70 Sunday afternoon with much more fleeting unseasonable cold. (Also, PIT officially got to 87 so far today)