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2 hours ago, Rd9108 said:

Our last 12+ storm was this guy back in march 2018. Still plenty of winter to go

 

The 12.20 storm had more widespread 12” totals, even if the official total was less. 

47 minutes ago, Ahoff said:

No, they can’t, lol.

Not even close. A 9” storm when u have a forecast of 6” to 12” is not a bust. 1.19 had a similar forecast with almost no snow. 

35 minutes ago, TimB84 said:

Jesus, this thread today is virtually unreadable. All I wanted to know was how this clipper worked out while I’m out of town and it looks like this went from basically a non-event when I left on Friday to a solid clipper putting down a couple to maybe a few inches. It’s hard to see how something like this would “bust” unless the ground truth ended up being a coating or something in that range, which it didn’t.

Because of one guy. Who needs to not @ me, but instead go to the complaint thread. No one wants to hear that shit anymore. 
 

It was a fantastic winter day. 3.1” officially, with a lot of 3-4” reports. Some 5 and 6” reports in Beaver and Butler county. Some 2” reports to the south and some of the lower elevations around the city. 

Rates were diminishing the last couple hours, but just started cranking as the back end is coming. Right around 3.5” at the moment

2 minutes ago, SteelCity87 said:

We had a 10" storm in 2018 also. Nearly three 10" storms in the last 4 winters alone

Yeah - 11” in March 2018.  That was a nice overproducer. Not quite the impact of the 12.20 storm, but nice prolonged snow if I recall. 

2 minutes ago, Ahoff said:

Lol.  I don’t think you live in the area then.  You always seem to have no snow when everybody else has a lot.  That’s something wild.

Agree. I’ve come to that conclusion this year too. Almost like a Philly cat trolling -  sick of their rain and the Flyers losing

11 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

We've already had 2.5-3 inches?

Definitely North and West. I just measured 2.5”. Reports of 4” already in New Castle.

2 minutes ago, KPITSnow said:

I haven’t even come close to that. I got 7 from the last storm and I might get 2 from this. The last storm was an absolute bust and didn’t even hit warning level for me,

A bust because the pretty color you wanted on the best model didn’t happen. But a widespread 7-10” did which is what was actually forecasted by most.  Storm was fine.  
 

And yeah, I’m in a good spot today and will be at 13-14” for the week. But NWS I’m sure will wind up with 12” or so. That’s a great winter week. 

1 minute ago, KPITSnow said:

Next clipper also looks to be about 25-50 miles too far north. Maybe that will chance but looks like it will follow the exact same path as this one.

 

What a freaking awful winter so far. 2-4 today turns into maybe 1.5 inches. Next clipper gives us 1-2 again while north sees 3-5, and out big storm turned in to a run of the mill 6 or 7 inch storm for most of us with a huge dry slot and p type issues.

 

 

We will have gotten a foot in the last 7 days by this evening, weenie. 

Rippin here now. Inch in the last 90 minutes and over 2” total. Man I love daytime snow 

Roads are rough in Cranberry. Got stuck going up a hill because the first car got stuck. So the 6 of us behind them had no momentum. Eventually we made it out. 

I have a fresh inch, with rates picking up. Snowed for a good while without showing up on radar

Clipper has trended a little north and stronger. We’ll see if someone can pop 3-4” out of this. 

9 minutes ago, Superstorm said:

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Lol - Mechanicsburg snow hole 

-6 here in Cranberry. -5 I’m Wexford. Definitely got cold in northern suburbs 

Down to 3 already IMBY for you cold chasers 

Speaking of freshening things up - NAM is looking more robust (some 3’s and 4’s) for extreme southern parts of Western Pa for late Wed night. Maybe it can lead the way to one more jump north. 

Clippers don’t quite have the excitement of the chase or high ceiling  - but certainly can be nice when you start with a good snowpack 

Euro ensembles had some nice Piedmont runners

Nice band coming through with some blowing snow. A little Icing on the cake.

27 minutes ago, Rd9108 said:

Serious question before I step away, how many blizzard warnings in the past 30 years has Pittsburgh had??? Seems like we have trouble getting the extreme winds with heavy snow being so far away from the coast.

‘93 of course. Westmoreland and Fayette had them during the second (smaller) storm in February 2010. While the totals were more modest than the first one, the winds were howling. Before ‘93, it would have been one of the Jan ‘78 storms. And before that, Nov ‘50, unless one of those bigger ones in the 60’s had the criteria. But of course those days were different as far as warnings and criteria.

But I’d say that’s a quarter century type happening. 

36 minutes ago, TimB84 said:

I’m sure there are houses for sale in Beaver County, where it snows more than it does here, you just have to look.

I moved to Cranberry this past year (SW corner of Butler county, but only a few miles from Beaver border).

No, snow wasn’t the reason, but being a little shielded from the WTOD was in the back of my mind :-)

Based on the number of 8” and 9” reports in AGC, it definitely hit the “8 in 24 hr” warning criteria in Allegheny and certainly Beaver and Butler. The public forecasts were very much validated, even if on the low to mid side. 

I also thought eastern suburbs did what I thought. Just thought city and west would avoid the dry slot, but wasn’t meant to be. 

Nice regional breakdown of updated totals. Mostly 8+ In the immediate Pgh area. You can see our 12+ that just slid west, but also where the lower totals were SE.

3 minutes ago, MikeB_01 said:

Lots of these reports coming via social media. You think its possible that some of these are being measured in an area where there was drifting rather than actual snowfall numbers? 

Maybe - but it can work the other way too where the measurement was where the snow drifted from.

But good point as far as another reason that the numbers are all over the place.