MAG5035 Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Any of you Pittsburgh folks switch back over to snow? Dual pol seems to suggest the changeover line now on the eastern end of town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
north pgh Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Any of you Pittsburgh folks switch back over to snow? Dual pol seems to suggest the changeover line now on the eastern end of town. Yes. Getting light snow now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteelCity08 Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Not looking very good for any overnight accumulations. Maybe another 1-2 at best, looks like it's really drying up out there. November or not this was a pretty frustrating storm but at least we managed to get a head start to the winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
north pgh Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Not looking very good for any overnight accumulations. Maybe another 1-2 at best, looks like it's really drying up out there. November or not this was a pretty frustrating storm but at least we managed to get a head start to the winter. You're right. The storm over-performed last night and this morning and under-performed today and so far tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitualOfTheTrout Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 I'm in the New Kensington area in Westemoreland County, right on the border of Allegheny. I'm just anticipating the warm air aloft may hold on a bit longer than progged, especially considering it has made it a bit further NW than anticipated. We have a pretty narrow window of time from what I can tell when the best dynamics are here to get our snow. The back end snows are more from the upper level low, than what you would typically call wrap around so that does give some credence to the idea. At this point my opinion is more based on past experience than actual numbers and science. I hope to bust badly. Well, I didn't expect to bust on the low end.. Currently, 0 new snow accumulation. Did anyone else fair any better? But in all honestly I'm not surprised by the outcome. Yesterdays 12z ,18z GFS and NAM both showed less qpf with each run after the change back to snow. That, past experience, and time of year was enough to be weary of forecasts for a lot of snow. I think overall the storm was modeled well as we got close. Both the GFS and NAM showed the 850 0c line well north and west of our area during the bulk of the preciptiation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackngoldrules Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Well, I didn't expect to bust on the low end.. Currently, 0 new snow accumulation. Did anyone else fair any better? But in all honestly I'm not surprised by the outcome. Yesterdays 12z ,18z GFS and NAM both showed less qpf with each run after the change back to snow. That, past experience, and time of year was enough to be weary of forecasts for a lot of snow. I think overall the storm was modeled well as we got close. Both the GFS and NAM showed the 850 0c line well north and west of our area during the bulk of the preciptiation. I picked up another half inch overnight. I guess the local mets were spot on with their amounts thanks to the early changeover and the back end precip fizzling out. I probably picked up about 4 inches overall from the storm even though I don't have that on the ground right now thanks to the rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
north pgh Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 I picked up another half inch overnight. I guess the local mets were spot on with their amounts thanks to the early changeover and the back end precip fizzling out. I probably picked up about 4 inches overall from the storm even though I don't have that on the ground right now thanks to the rain. Pretty much the same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolling Snowed Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Looks like 3-4 inches total snowfall is the common result in northern Wash Co and the South Hills...i received 3.5" before changover yesterday, and another 0.5" overnight for a total of 4" of snowfall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitualOfTheTrout Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 After I posted a couple of snow showers came through as I was scraping the frozen rain off the windshield this morning. Not sure how much actually fell but probably .25-.5 of an inch. One thing that was unexpected was how the snow that fell yesterday morning hung around despite over a half inch of rain. I guess 33 degree water doesn't do much to damage a snow pack. Should be like concrete by later today I would think. The next 5-7 days look fairly uneventful with modest moderation towards normal in the temperature department. Might be a good weekend to get the Holiday lights up. All and all not bad for November considering it seems the past few have been on the warmer side, although it still stings to have wasted such a nice storm track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
north pgh Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Getting a good snow shower now. Covering everything up. A light fine snow but it is blowing too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
north pgh Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 LMAO!!!! CNN has a live reporter in Pittsburgh and he just said that Pittsburgh is still expecting 5-9 inches of snow over the next several hours. They are trying to hype up the Thanksgiving traveling issues. He was standing near the parkway west looking at wet roads as cars went by 60 mph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitualOfTheTrout Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Wife just called and said she hit a heavy snow squall with whiteout conditions. She had to pull off the road. It only lasted about 20 -30 seconds though. Looks like on the radar we do have some bands of narrow moderate snow showers moving through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitualOfTheTrout Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 LMAO!!!! CNN has a live reporter in Pittsburgh and he just said that Pittsburgh is still expecting 5-9 inches of snow over the next several hours. They are trying to hype up the Thanksgiving traveling issues. He was standing near the parkway west looking at wet roads as cars went by 60 mph. I noticed that on KDKA this morning, they obviously planned for the "big snow" to be the top story, but instead had reporters standing by wet roads etc. It's even worse national media is here hyping an event for all intents and purposes was over 12 hours ago lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burghblizz Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 LMAO!!!! CNN has a live reporter in Pittsburgh and he just said that Pittsburgh is still expecting 5-9 inches of snow over the next several hours. They are trying to hype up the Thanksgiving traveling issues. He was standing near the parkway west looking at wet roads as cars went by 60 mph. That's just irresponsible. If you are sent to do a story, you should at least know what is going on. I'd be pissed at stuff like that if I were a met. Next thing you know, people are telling their friends that they hear that it's "coming today" now, which makes the forecast look busted again. I do think we were close to having things play out as expected....but that R/S just wouldn't budge last nights. Saw some 8" to 10" reports in extreme eastern Ohio - places that can't be more than 30 miles from the airport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mailman Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Roads are a bit white here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoraopolisWx Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 After I posted a couple of snow showers came through as I was scraping the frozen rain off the windshield this morning. Not sure how much actually fell but probably .25-.5 of an inch. One thing that was unexpected was how the snow that fell yesterday morning hung around despite over a half inch of rain. I guess 33 degree water doesn't do much to damage a snow pack. Should be like concrete by later today I would think. The next 5-7 days look fairly uneventful with modest moderation towards normal in the temperature department. Might be a good weekend to get the Holiday lights up. All and all not bad for November considering it seems the past few have been on the warmer side, although it still stings to have wasted such a nice storm track. I noticed that last night also. the snowpack compacted, but hardly budged. In the end, it was the weak, broad trough of low pressure, that actually screwed us. Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rdd9108 Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 Its only November so i cant be too upset. If this was March 30 this would be a different story. Im just hoping for a blizzard this year. 2009/2010 was an awesome winter and I want to see something historic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meatwad Posted November 28, 2013 Author Share Posted November 28, 2013 Light Snow falling here in Monroeville. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChalkHillSnowNut Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 There's a 2 footer coming on 12/13!....and was still there on the next run! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whamcity Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Soooooo far away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rdd9108 Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 The way it is looking is we have a chance at accumulating snow the next few weeks with the negative EPO and some teleconnections fluctuating. Hopefully we can get a nice little pre or even a Christmas Day storm. I cant remember the last Christmas day storm. Last year we got 6-8 inches the day after, but a Christmas eve storm would be awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meatwad Posted December 1, 2013 Author Share Posted December 1, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChalkHillSnowNut Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 looking good!! bring on December!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 I have placed a topic in the general forum regarding the revised NWS snow measurement guide... http://www.americanwx.com/bb/index.php/topic/41853-new-nws-snow-measurement-guide/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rdd9108 Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Looking good but we all know how the last storm turned out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitualOfTheTrout Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Looking good but we all know how the last storm turned out. Ha! Isn't that the truth. Looks like we have serval shots at snow and other wintry weather coming up. Looks like our best shot, at least per Euro would be the Sunday-Monday time frame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rdd9108 Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Yeah the Euro is even more bullish with the snow depth. I will believe it when Im walking in a foot of snow. I rather see all snow then this ice thats a possibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
north pgh Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Oz Nam gives us 6 inches of snow on Friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rdd9108 Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 How about the totals for the whole event? Euro said 10-12. Im interested to see if these models are finally getting a clue about the intense cold coming into the CONUS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rdd9108 Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Although the NAM does tend to overdue the precip. In any case Im thinking we see a good snow pack when all is said and done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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