Burghblizz

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.

I guess the wind is screwing us - lol. Not sure how you do a depth if you mostly have under an inch, but have a nice drift too. Most people that tried to measure reported between 1-2”.

Don’t know how much snow I got…probably under 2”….but I do have a nice 8-9” drift in the yard.

Wonder if the average person knows that the wind chill calculation changed. They might be saying “in my day we had 50 below” well…this is it. That’s like -50 with the old calc

I think he meant record low HIGH. Do you know what that is tomorrow? Edit: looks like Tim just answered it

Not sure the last time we spent an afternoon below zero. Even some mornings in recent winters that it got to -8 or -10 climbed above zero the next day.

Yeah the intial “back end” would have been north of the city by now - but with the backbuilding, it hasn’t moved too far in the last 2 hours. Probably lighter intensity though.

KPIT Now down to 12. Went from 40 to 12 from 5 AM to 7 AM. (I’m not really into chasing cold like a few of you are, but that is impressive!)

KPIT is currently SN+ with temp down to 13. Winds gusting to 45. KAGC (which seems notoriously windy) is gusting to 51.

Temp went from 40 to 21…heavy snow with gusts to 43 right now. One thing I thought was going to be interesting was the wind direction. Not often do we get howling SW winds with snow. My south facing, covered front porch has a little drift forming already. My north facing back porch is kind of bare.

I think we will. I think it’s going to be like a nice lake band - awesome for a while, but knowing the end is near. It’s just how much moisture will be left. Honestly I’d rather be us and get 2” than be Chicago getting 5” (when they had hopes of a historic storm 2 days ago)

Well…he caught it…so maybe you can let that part go too.

You’d get put in time aht if you cluttered the model thread with asking how much for your town - lol.

The regional board format hurts that because the dozens of other Mets are posting exclusively in their regions. Whereas they used to have them all discussing the overall model run for basically the entire threat area.

I might be in the minority, but I miss the (very) old board format when we would do model runs as they happened as their own thread. So you would get a lot of this where Mets would chime in and say things like how the upper levels don’t match the surface depiction, and to “expect it to go east/west,etc”. That was very helpful and helped you know what shifts to expect outside of the model biases. They changed that when the board got too big…and one weenie would say “it’s east!” when another would say “it’s coming west!”. Meanwhile, it was just the precip shield over their backyard.

You do good work. A nice service to us in the Pittsburgh forum as well.

That’s an interesting read. I also was just thinking why a nice storm suddenly is out to see other than just bad luck. Would be nice to have the opposite for a change, but it’s just too far. I doubt there is anything meanful for us, but interesting from a modeling perspective.