TimB

But would be nice. We’re now only sitting 5 or 6 inches below normal officially for the season to date.

It’s just the NAM. The NAM is never right, especially beyond 24-48 hours.

Everybody but one.

We need snow cover if we’re to have a good chance of ending those streaks I’d like to see end.

We can only hope it’s discovered that the folks at the ECMWF have been covering up and enabling something heinous and disgusting for decades and they have to suspend it for awhile.

I use the NWS office and the airport interchangeably. I know it’s technically not correct, but there’s a reason that’s where the office is located and not in the city or something.

Forecast discussion mentioned ensembles suggesting an omega block locking us into a cold pattern for the balance of January. Great for snow retention assuming we can get most of it to survive Wednesday, not so great for additional storms.

Ultimately it’s not going to go down as a bust in my mind. It could have been a great winter storm, and it’s turning out to be a good winter storm. Not going to cry over getting 8” of snow when I could have gotten 12.

It’s the same old story every time. Not going to complain because I have 7 or 8 inches of snow on the ground, but I went back and read some posts from last year’s snow to rain mess in Pittsburgh on 2/15-16 and it was the same thing. The NAM a couple of days before the storm decided that the low was coming much further inland than previously anticipated and that there would be p-type and dry slotting issues. When the storm arrived, there were p-type and dry slotting issues. We didn’t learn our lesson then, and apparently neither did the NWS, who finally put mix into the grids around here yesterday mid-afternoon.

I measured 7.5” at my house just now. We’ll just round that to 8 and say this thing was only a small bust, not a complete bust. Good to finally see snow again.

Did PIT actually see 0.47” of precip in the 5:51 hour? Is that accurate?

Oh for God’s sake.

Also I’ll be in Florida next weekend so @KPITSnowwill have to do double duty on the doom and gloom if we get a storm.

It will. By Wednesday afternoon you’ll see parts of your lawn that you just saw earlier today.

There’s a little band coming that might take a half an hour to pivot through and give us an additional half inch.

It’s not a matter of when, it’s if. HRRR shows 6” of snow left now.

You know why they no longer happen, but this probably isn’t the time or place to discuss it.

And how many other cities in this country regularly get sleet/zr with temps in the low 20s? Not many.

How much grass will we be able to see at nightfall Wednesday? Any takers?

You’re right, I should be happy for them. One of the worst non-Southern states, but at least they get to enjoy snow.

Of course it did. And now we’re in danger of our season total still standing in the single digits 2/3 of the way through January.

But it’s always Ohio. Losing to Ohio at anything stings.

The initial part of the dry slot filled in some, but the rest is massive. We need a miracle.

The game result was expected. The storm isn’t over yet and may or may not pan out. Falling short of warning criteria would absolutely be a major, indisputable bust, but not exactly suicide material.

I’m not asking for 40, I’m asking for a measly 8.