Burghblizz

Great morning, although dicey commute. Got about 4” in just under 4 hours. If some of the Virga overnight would have translated in to snow, I think you would have seen 6 and 7” reports. Tops in the immediate area was around 5” Edit: there was one report in Plum of 6”...which is possible considering there was a report of 5.3” in I believe Natrona. 4.2” officially....certainly the most exciting of the otherwise boring ~28” total so far this year.

I can do that if I need to, but I have 6 remote employees in town for a meeting. I’d much rather be home watching

Very heavy snow on parkway east. I got a head start because I had meetings but this figures to be a debacle soon

NAM really has the surface temp holding below freezing until late in the day. That would be In the late afternoon still, after 6-7” of snow. It has been really consistent with a hard morning thump on Wednesday. It’s trending a tick faster which might help. Probably more likely to see about half that and over to plain rain in the afternoon. But Wouldn’t be shocked to see a couple hours of heavy snow early Wed

I wouldn’t even call it a surprise...I can see that being the forecast. Seems to be enough precip before the warm air really takes over

New NAM looking a little colder on the front end

Sucks to see multiple threats seem to disappear. Crappy winter (but it does give me some pleasure that Boston is like at 4”)

PIT was one of like 8 offices to pioneer the new “snow squall warning” for use as an official alert. To my knowledge, they haven’t used it. CTP has.

The last warning I remember was Feb ‘93...but we got warning criteria snows with it as well.....~8” if I recall. A rare but glorious site from just a lake effect band. ive seen other offices lately put up warnings for just the event of a squall, but haven’t seen Pit do that.

White Aht dahntahn

I wasn’t crying too much over this one...took my initial 3” and enjoyed a nice Sunday afternoon and evening. Probably would rather that then have gotten 5” that got encased in ice, then washed away anyway. Weekend looking interesting, albeit not looking like a large storm at this point

Heavier burst again, but that backend looks to be racing through Ohio. Maybe 1-2 more hours of snow.

Really nice late afternoon, although roads suck already It’s been uncanny how much night time snow we have gotten over the last 9-10 years. Most areas seem to have 1.5” to 2” currently

Move to SW PA....Pittsburgh averages 41” of snow per year, while averaging 39 days containing “measurable” snow.

Yep - as expected.

The border counties should get a solid 4-5”. i saw one report of 5” in southern Allegheny, but didn’t see anything else to substantiate it.

Very impactful 2-3” overall....timing and temps wreaking havoc

Very interesting stuff. Assuming those are full calendar years and not seasons (so the average would be exactly the same overall anyway, but some of the years might look a little different) Also, good observation as to the lack of Lake Erie ice coverage perhaps fueling more of these nuisance snows, even if bigger storms have suffered since 2011. I also think that it’s possible that they were not nearly as dilligent about measuring minor snow in the early 1900s. Look at how many lower snowfall seasons there were. Has our climate changed that much? Probably not...I just think they weren’t measuring every snow shower that came through and perhaps just stuck a ruler in the ground at the end of the day. Measuring location before 1950 (AGC vs PIT) could be a slight factor, but not much. They are both around 1150 to 1200’

Impressive squall this morning! Bad timing though. 2 hours to go 18 miles

Yeah, we haven’t had a winter below 20” in almost 30 years. The nickel and dimes add up, even in extremely boring winters like this one. Northern suburbs did well this past weekend. Hoping for a nice finish (amazing that we are even mentioning “finish” already, it seems like it just started)

Beautiful morning again this morning with this squall. Quick half inch in about 30 min.

I’d take this as a 50th percentile for this coming week:

Sometimes we forget to enjoy modest snows... Ive been guilty before of completely blowing off 3”-4” clippers in favor of being glued to models for a later storm (that never happened)

That’s pretty. Tracks like that used to much more common. Slop would be I95s problem not ours. And yes, no WTOD. You can tell there likely a negative tilted trough and closed 500 low without even looking. Ideally that little retrograde happens a little further south

I was just poking my head in to see how this area did, and you are 100% correct! The new page sucks and while you can get to old Intellicast radar, it was suck in the past for most of this storm