TimB

It’s all good, our three week winter seems like it’s over, so now on to spring.

Ens means are looking awfully ridgy in the long range. Could we be headed for a third straight early spring and 5th out of the last 7?

Can’t wait until we’re inside the 18-24 contour and we get like 16.5.

Was 2011 really our last 6” event in February? Last year doesn’t count, as the February portion of that 1/31-2/2 event did not reach 6”.

The airport is in Allegheny County. Warning verified.

Forecast should have never been a foot given that everyone but the NWS seemed to know there would be p-type and dry slotting issues.

It’s hard to rule out the idea that you were secretly rooting for it to bust.

Insult? You take this stuff far too seriously.

It was all fun and games until I was hiding in my basement that night in October. To my knowledge, first time I’ve been inside the polygon in PA.

I apologize, I shouldn’t have sent out the bat signal.

Yes indeed. Still hoping this winter has more to come.

I would think he’s saying his 7” fell in more than 12 hours, so he didn’t get 6” in any 12 hour period or 8” in any 24 hour period. I don’t like his argument but I know what he’s saying.

I mean fine, but 6-9” over ~18 hours is getting a warning slapped on it 100 times out of 100 even if the low end doesn’t technically meet criteria.

I didn’t figure you were begrudging anyone. And that 5% of your workforce comment speaks volumes about the “grass is greener” mentality - in many cases it isn’t.

To be fair, the pros/cons of staying with a company for 25-30 years now probably aren’t as favorable as they were 25-30 years ago. But of course we also have the internet where you can find all sorts of jobs where the grass is (allegedly) greener at the click of a button.

The good news is that neither of our warnings this year were downgraded to advisories and both met warning criteria for snow or ice in most locations outside of KPITSnow’s backyard.

I assume this is from 1/19/19, though applicable to at least one storm nearly every year.

Yes indeed, definitely feels like our days of checking every run of every model are on hiatus for now, and we’re due for a warmup. That’s where I’m going to compare this winter to last winter. Last year we had a top ten streak of not hitting 50 degrees (55 days). Today should be the 37th straight day this year and we have a very good shot at tacking on another week. I think we get there by mid-next week.

I fancy myself a bit of a geography buff, though I’d have to say my skills pale in comparison to yours.

That’s the great Mt Shasta for sure.

Did he promise that as part of his Senate campaign? If so, he’s got my vote. Oh, not that Oz. Carry on.

I’m not diminishing the significance of that period, as it was almost certainly the best 4 year period Pittsburgh has ever had for snowfall. Just addressing the assertion that the 90s in general were by far superior to more recent years, there were tons of warm periods and snowless periods and several winterless winters outside of that great period. So yes, while I’m fairly certain that “something has changed” since the ‘90s, it’s not the quality of winters from purely a total snowfall perspective.

And that’s it. 19.3” through like 2/9/93.

This is very anecdotal. There were some abysmal winters in Pittsburgh in the ‘90s, including ‘92-93 until that switch flipped in mid-February. Further, every year of the ‘90s reached 60 in either January or February or both, and it was 2/4 or earlier in all but 1992 (2/22) and 1994 (2/18). It got to 70 in February twice in the ‘90s. There were three winters that were above normal snowfall (yes, all three were way above normal snowfall), but there were also 3 years with snowfall totals in the 20s and ‘90-‘91 ended with 17.2” at PIT. The big events you mention were memorable, but outside of those it was a bad decade for snow in general. Early 2000s were a bit better.

I’m still trying to decide if this is better or worse. Probably better, but when the subject of following weather in the ‘90s comes up I still get severe bouts of nostalgia.