Burghblizz

8 minutes ago, KPITSnow said:

Ok, I have a whiteout here.

The sun is going to be out in like 15 minutes there too — But it’s going to be OK. 

Only our area can get the “hot” designation in the complaint thread,  on a morning with a free micro-blizzard, with no tracking needed 

Dropped about 1” or so 30 minutes. The last 5 minutes was straight white out. Some pretty high gusts behind the squall. Getting occasional low vis with blowing snow now. 

Just now, Blue Moon said:

Whiteout in Oswego, NY this morning

 

 

Sorry wrong thread

Whiteout here too, weenie. Right thread

16 minutes ago, KPITSnow said:

I've got some light flurries that aren't doing much of anything. Meanwhile looking at the traffic cameras in Cranberry it is a near whiteout 10 miles north.

And it’s glorious. 

5 minutes ago, KPITSnow said:

GOOD FOR YOU! I have flurries.

Then it’s confirmed. You are a troll that lives in Philly pissed off about your shitty area. If you are in the north hills, you do not have “flurries” right now. 

2 minutes ago, Burghblizz said:

Every weenie thinks that. Look at the snow hole in South central PA this year. Try a Philly or DC 2” winter.

Anyway - ripping 2” per hour right now. Not sure if it last for an hour, but approaching a fresh inch. Nice last 30 days as I’m around 25”.

 

40 MPH gust. Whiteout. But weenie on guys 

5 minutes ago, TimB said:

Won’t comment until this event is over, but it’s best to just keep expectations low. It’s no secret that if there were a stat for “snow climo relative to neighboring areas”, Pittsburgh may very well be in or near last place in the entire US.

Every weenie thinks that. Look at the snow hole in South central PA this year. Try a Philly or DC 2” winter.

Anyway - ripping 2” per hour right now. Not sure if it last for an hour, but approaching a fresh inch. Nice last 30 days as I’m around 25”.

4 hours ago, TimB said:

Yeah our season total of 25.6” at the airport almost surely means your little snow desert microclimate is below 20”.

Wouldn’t be shocked to add a sneaky inch or two to that over the course of the day. I’ve had some squalls on and off so far. 

I’m just here for the comic relief. 

23 minutes ago, Ahoff said:

Don't bring up a foot, just don't, lol!

Yeah - it’s not going to snow a foot Sunday. Just relaying the imagination of the Canadians at this point.

33 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Lol

This shot has a thin weenie band that gets north of the city 12” all told - but the frames before this have good widespread snows 

If you want a decent reference site for local forecasts, this is it. Honestly, I think they are making the same mistake you are by using that brief moment where the 12” point and click contour made it down to Moon Twp. Also, Intellicast goes off of that I believe. The NWS statement was 6-12” and 6-11” at various times.  So throw that in this bunch:

But you’ll see this was the landscape of local forecasts. To pretty decent for a 9” storm. It’s the highest model and weenie dreams that didn’t verify. The forecasts did. 
 

Just now, KPITSnow said:

The map came out at 1pm, and we were done at that point. 
 

Just freaking stop brining it up in every post. You thought it was a good event, great. I think it was one of the worst busts I’ve experienced.

The map did, but they aggregate reports from earlier. So like I said, you can cross reference the report times in the PIS and LSR’s

Not sure why you are so obsessed to show that 7” fell instead of 9” in a storm that was forcasted to get 6 to 11”.

Anyway, take this to banter. 

Little batch of snow showers about to roll in.  Won’t amount to much, but look nice falling into the snow pack. 

5 minutes ago, KPITSnow said:

I don’t get why you guys keep bringing this up? 
 

At least half the county got less than 8 inches. That means a lot of us didn’t verify warning criteria. I’m not blaming the NWS, but this storm underperformed on a big way.

 

and to your point in 1/19/19 it was raining and 35 before warnings were dropped.

You brought it up. Linking a map. A map that includes early and mid event totals. Cross reference that with the PIS and the times of those reports. 

Sorry the storm underformed your expectations. It snowed 9.1”. Probably a little more here. 

Forecasts were fine. Every local, accuweather, and the NWS statement validated. 

Literally 30 posts because some dude at NWS briefly pulled the 12” contour down west of the city. 

1 hour ago, Rd9108 said:

looks like Pittsburgh was fringed 

It was a solid foot in the city, but it was an epic storm 50 miles east. 

7 minutes ago, TimB84 said:

 

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.

That 37 months from Dec 92 to Jan 96 had a LOT of snow. It was more than a few big storms. That’s my favorite extended period. Best month was 2.10.

https://www.weather.gov/media/pbz/records/hissnow.pdf

Your “model runs” were the Weather Channel 5 day business planner. If those hit a couple times in a row, then I started watching locals. If they started mentioning it, I’d  wait for the orange screen on TWC for the Winter Storm Watch. 

I mean, I wouldn’t trade today’s direct access to models, message boards, internet, etc. But still very nostalgic about those times. 

13 minutes ago, Rd9108 said:

Euro has a signal for a big dog it just doesn't bomb out big time until it hits the coast.

If we have to watch ppl get 40 to get 20”….that’s OK. Sign me up.

2 minutes ago, Ahoff said:

Radar is filling with snow in the area.  Very interesting.

You see that here and around Charleston WV from time to time. I think it’s more that very light snow showers aren’t getting picked up until they get close to those radar sites. I don’t think they just happen to be flaring up in those spots 

Beautiful morning. Still snowing (passing snow shower) but with the sun out. So fresh snow is shining as is the ice on the trees. Looks like white lights on them since water was frozen in the shape of tear drops 

We had far fewer clown maps in 2010. Who know what kuchera would have shown. But we were consistently getting the 2” QPF contour bumping closer and closer

2 minutes ago, Rd9108 said:

I think he's more frustrated with the models showing the usual last minute hope at some big totals and then faded away. I can only imagine how intense tracking 2010s storm must have been for you guys.

Feb 10 was a weenie dream. Snowed almost 50”

The 2.5.10 was what we all strive for. 6-10/8-12 type forecasts, but seeing the 20”+ model support actually come to fruition.

I remember having 11” on the ground and seeing the 0zNAM come in at another 12” — then thinking “sonofabitch, we got this”

The NWS statement was 6-12” (yeah, I get their grid had more) What most of the public sees is the statement. 

The locals at various times were 5-12/5-9/6-10, etc.

It snowed 9.1”

It was pretty well forecasted even if the city and valleys had more like 7 or 8. 

Models arent forecasts. I get if Kpitsnow was disappointed and wanted more - and that’s his right. But it was well within the compilation of local forecasts.