Burghblizz

“The new climate regime”….lol. I know this winter has sucked and today is warm, but… Our 30 year average snow went UP to 44” during the period ending in 2020. The first 2 complete years of this decade are averaging even MORE than that. Even the futility of multiple bad years in the late 80s/early 90s turned into boom years. Not doubting overall climate change, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves in terms of our own weather. There are no significant here trends for less snow. The last 90 days kinda sucked. That’s really the extent of it.

Translation: warm/wet dry/cold Although maybe some hope towards the latter portion.

No issues with a 70 degree Feb day as long as it’s sandwiched into a good winter. Not the case this year obviously

Such a boring sports weekend too…bad timing to have no real threats to track.

Not saying it’s shaping up to be great - but we are basically only at halftime in terms of expected snowfall. I know we start to deal with sun angle and short lived snow packs, but March averages as much snow as Dec. So take an average second half we are up over 30”. Then it’s just a below average winter instead of a historically dreadful one.

In some ways, it’s been less disappointing. But I do think we have a mini-rally and have a decent second half.

Certainly didn’t have the track to be a big storm - but at least had a short period that felt like a nice storm.

Real nice 3 hours in Cranberry - about 2” that mostly fell in 2 hours. Missed the first batch to the north, and that warm surge shut things off earlier than I would have liked. Roads cleared up pretty quick too.

Pounding now….1” in the last 50 min.

Not really a suprise :-) (unless u listen to some of these guys)

10” blob over me, and a couple other weenie blobs. Probably just a glitch, but could be a sign of some heavier rates around.

I’m still pretty optimistic. Granted, I’m 25 miles north of the city, but I think there is a decent chance for 3-4”…with the bonus of nice rates and daytime.

I’m about 10 feet on the good side of the NAM (SE extreme of its 5”-7” swath). But no room for error and agonizingly close for others. That initial push of moisture to the north is annoying. Hopefully that is wider (and/or) sets up farther south.

Solid 3”+ now. Big fatties flying again. Beautiful morning

Sweet spot looked to be East Liverpool with around 4”. I got about 2.5”. That evening batch came together nicely, and lingered a bit overnight. Hopefully we can go thump to dry slot Wed.

These bands keep reforming NW of the city. I’m on the eastern side of it, but snowing pretty good again. Wouldn’t be suprised to see some 3” totals in Beaver county.

It wasn’t exactly life changing here on the good side. Pushing 2”, but not missing all that much.

Very inefficient .5” after snowing most of the day…but this most recent batch after dark has been nice. About 1.5” total.

Ripping nice - temp 33 but ground white. Still think north of the city can pull a couple inches.

The key to squeezing out a couple inches today could be these temps. The forecast temps are higher than the models but the obs this morning are tracking a bit lower. That might be a bit weenish, but I’m saying there is a chance.

Sunday looking a little better…I feel like Wed is trending towards a cutter.

Give me two clean, 8-12” storms and I’ll be OK with a sub 30” winter.

Amazing how temps impacted that. Today is really the first day since last Thursday that the roads havent been bad in at least some spots.

My bar for being “too much” is pretty high. But they are pushing it. Some of those videos looked more like natural disasters than a snowstorm.

Maybe I got a little more, but if this is 1.2”, it’s the most impactful 1.2” I’ve ever seen. Roads look like there was a foot (in terms of impact, that is). If they are measuring in an open area, that snow went somewhere else.