TimB

Not saying I think May will average out below normal when it’s all said and done (I don’t), but warm weather fans in Pittsburgh have, as a whole, gotten to enjoy 10 out of the last 11 months and 57 out of the last 73. So it’s hard to look at a week-long stretch where temperatures run ~10 degrees below normal as all that bad. Except the rain nearly every day, that’s a different story.

It’s safe for the CPC to just mail it in and make every one and three month outlook look like some variation of this, and it will verify 90% of the time.

Model trends already seem to be moving toward a seasonably cool pattern rather than anomalously cold junk like highs in the 40s. I know it’s setting the bar incredibly low to state that I think every day in this pattern will break 50 and that the low of 32 this past Saturday will be our last freezing temperature until at least October, but both do seem likely.

It could be worse. Never forget:

Even at many times in 2020 during the height of the pandemic it was that way in BFE. I went into a few places in my wife’s hometown in BFE, PA and was stunned at the approximately 50% of people that weren’t wearing masks.

I’d also be all in on the idea of just letting the virus do what it may among the unvaccinated once everyone has had their chance to get a vaccine, except for the worry that continuing to spread the virus may produce variants that make the vaccine less effective.

Indeed, May is one of those months that’s been consistently warm as a whole in recent years (except last year), but I can remember notably cold periods in the first half of every recent May except 2018 (the year all 31 days were above normal).

Euro has us at 42 with rain next Saturday afternoon. The irony is that’s almost exactly where we were at the same time last year.

So the answer is nothing particularly notable, lol.

What were your local impacts from the 2/24/19 event?

Some (myself included) would argue that temps 10-15 degrees below average in May are easier to tolerate than temps 10-15 degrees above average in May. For many locations in this sub, 15 degrees below average is highs still well into the 50s in early May and 15 degrees above is highs well into the 80s. I know which one I like better. The problem is I also like thunderstorms and it’s considerably easier to get them in the warmer pattern vs. the colder one.

Boycotting Garrett County for all things weather-related because they decided they just had to be part of the Baltimore/Washington NWS forecast office rather than Pittsburgh.

There’s a storm! Mostly a very cold rain, but...

When those “dead skeletons”, “brown dead looking grass”, and “monotone and dull landscape” are covered in beautiful white snow in the somewhat longer days of February, four of the five problems you mentioned are solved!

I sure as hell don’t think CNN is an objective source, but it’s no less objective than its primary competitors with opposing views. Along those lines, remember last March when the coronavirus was a scientific issue and not a political one? One individual, much more than anyone else, is responsible for it being so politicized, and it’s not CNN or Fox News or MSNBC or One America. You can look at a Facebook profile of someone on either side of the political aisle and there’s a solid chance you’ll see some sort of “stay home, save lives” sentiment that they posted last March before half of our country was told to think a different way about it. (I have some left-leaning opinions and some right-leaning opinions about other issues (most of which aren’t rooted in science), but this is specifically related to covid and I side with science on the issue of covid, which happens to line up closely with the left-wing position a lot better than it does with the right-wing position. That’s all I’m going to say on why I’m so harsh with the way I word things sometimes. I don’t view all right-wing positions as garbage, but their position on covid and the way it defies science irks me.)

https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-india-united-states-coronavirus-pandemic-asia-3b5adbaf2a94f95b31664efe83807e80 Here’s an article from one of the most objective sources in media about how serious the pandemic is in India. If you consider the Associated Press radical leftist stuff, I don’t know what to tell you.

So it’s the far-right New York Post using its own lack of credibility to make the public believe the pandemic in India is less severe than it actually is. That’s some next level stuff.

And 5x the number of people in 1/3 the area. Yeah, I absolutely believe it. This is incredibly awful.

I deleted the offending post, I’ll admit it was a bit of a low blow though directed at Ohio, not you specifically.

You could argue that wearing $2 gas station sunglasses is a crime too.

Elevation too? Accumulation on top of the big ball at Epcot?

That’s my biggest worry about traveling in the winter, and we often did before the pandemic because it was cheaper - not that my flight will be delayed because of inclement weather or anything like that - but that I’ll miss out on a big snowstorm back home.

The 12z GFS doesn’t quite bring@paweather’s May snow but it seems to continue a pattern that keeps hope alive.

Would that be the conservative New York Post sensationalizing about covid for clicks?

Well, except...