TimB

Just wait until the next 30 year averages, once 92-93 is replaced with 22-23.

People who were born in 1937 didn’t know what a 70 degree Feb day was until they were 60 because they didn’t exist in that timeframe. But we know, because they happen every few years now.

I’d say there are 3 days that would have definitely been 70 at the current location in the older era: the 77 on 2/8/1900, the 76 on 2/16/1883, and the 75 on 2/11/1932. The rest are iffy - a couple of 72’s and the rest 70.

Another one of these heat waves coming next week? Could we hit 70 in February for the 5th day in the past 7 years? 70 degree days in February at Pittsburgh international: 1952-1996: 0 1997-2016: 5 2017-2023: 4

Are the gusts actually going to pick up this evening?

9th 70 degree February day at PIT since 1997, after zero in the first 45 years of official observations at that location.

This is looking good. PIT is already up to 67, it’s into the low to mid 70s just upstream in northern WV, and looks like we see a fair amount of sun this afternoon.

Not trolling, just encouraging a young weather enthusiast not to be afraid to share his thoughts regarding a scientific topic that heavily affects his favorite type of weather.

Of course it’s climate change, don’t be afraid to talk about science on a science forum, kid. What can they do, ban you? Imagine the optics of that.

Better for the spring thread, but I’m actually morbidly curious how warm Thursday and/or the middle of next week can get.

Hard to look at something like the 18z GFS run with anything other than complete despair. The ensembles don’t look quite as awful, but yikes.

12z models seem to confirm it’s just going to be a continuation of the same goddamn pattern we’ve been in all winter. There’s no escape, at least not this season.

Especially considering the temp somehow managed to jump to thirty-#%$&ing-nine at PIT before midnight. Probably the most pathetic looking cold snap on record for our area by a long shot.

The green pixels don’t show up on pivotal, lol. But the temp is 20 degrees at that point.

The euro is one of them, it just puts the storm in a shitty place for us. But it has a storm.

Some stupid cold front. Good luck, lol.

Lock it in. What could possibly go wrong or change in the next 12 days?

The HRRR nailed it. I was skeptical, but hopeful.

Various regional forums on the website? NYC, where they just set a record for latest first measurable snow (if they see any at all)? The Mid-Atlantic, where the major observing sites are also currently at zero for the winter, and still have a shot at their first snowless winter in history? Or this one, where even the “haves” are at 50% of normal and the rest are closer to the first two places I mentioned? Yes, a comeback is possible. But in many places where a lot of people post on these forums, this is a historically bad start to winter.

We just have to accept the fact that this just isn’t going to be our winter. If we get a lucky break and catch a storm or two that turns an abysmal winter into a just kinda crappy one, great. If not, then hopefully we can nickel and dime our way out of being historically bad.

Indeed, snowing pretty good here. NWS didn’t seem too keen on this being a snow event, but it’s working out. Not much sticking to the warm ground.

Could we pick up a nice inch or so tonight or is this going to be a freezing drizzlefest?

Whole thing has been pretty meh today, despite the lake being wide open. We just can’t get the right parameters for anything to perform this winter.

You mean the term that’s forbidden (lol) in the regional weather forums here?

NWS has updated the grids from snow showers to “snow likely” for several hours this afternoon/evening.