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Western PA/Pittsburgh Winter 2021/22 Discussion


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1 minute ago, SteelCity87 said:

So consensus seems to be 2-3"  We really don't seem too far off from where the models had projected us to be at this point. Maybe an inch or so lower? Idk. Mixing should be behind us now, I think we made it out ok. 

I would agree.  Dry slot would be the next culprit but models (HRRR) seem to want to fill it in, so maybe limits damage there.

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2 minutes ago, Ahoff said:

The doom and gloom looks similar, lol.

I wouldn't say it's doom and gloom for me, more or less just matter of fact statements about how we never get all snow out of a winter storm in Pittsburgh and we all should have known better, including the NWS.

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1 minute ago, TimB84 said:

I wouldn't say it's doom and gloom for me, more or less just matter of fact statements about how we never get all snow out of a winter storm in Pittsburgh and we all should have known better, including the NWS.

We had a 10" storm in 2018 and nearly a foot last December. Still a chance we hit 10" w this one. I understand the sentiment but recent history has started to reverse this trend. 

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1 minute ago, TimB84 said:

I wouldn't say it's doom and gloom for me, more or less just matter of fact statements about how we never get all snow out of a winter storm in Pittsburgh and we all should have known better, including the NWS.

My sister in law and her family lived in Pittsburgh (Moon Township) and they said the same thing. They said it was always a couple inches, and ice, ice, ice.

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19 minutes ago, MikeB_01 said:

Pretty dry on the radar right now.


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Won't that fill in? Something similar to this: 

 

I was in eastern Ohio for that storm. Was in the 50s at midnight the day before, with temperatures dropping into the mid 30s late afternoon. Huge dry slot, then the deformation zone started to fill in and heavy snow bands pushed east and remained in place for 12 hours. Picked up 11 inches overnight. Even PIT recorded 4.3 inches of snow on the southeast edge of the band. Erie had just shy of 15 inches officially, but some areas in Erie and Crawford Counties picked up 2-3 feet of snow. And that was in April, to boot.

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3 minutes ago, TimB84 said:

4 of them being the key. It's going to be hard to get 4 of them this year, so the ones we do get better be good.

You missed the point.  No storm had p-type issues last year.  That’s remarkable here.  So, p-type isn’t always an issue.  The next one may be fine.  Could be next weekend at that.

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6 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

Won't that fill in? Something similar to this: 

 

I was in eastern Ohio for that storm. Was in the 50s at midnight the day before, with temperatures dropping into the mid 30s late afternoon. Huge dry slot, then the deformation zone started to fill in and heavy snow bands pushed east and remained in place for 12 hours. Picked up 11 inches overnight. Even PIT recorded 4.3 inches of snow on the southeast edge of the band. Erie had just shy of 15 inches officially, but some areas in Erie and Crawford Counties picked up 2-3 feet of snow. And that was in April, to boot.

Yes, it will eventually fill in. The most recent HRRRs took the dry slot further east so i was hoping to not deal with it. But yes it will eventually fill in

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MD 81 graphic

 

Mesoscale Discussion 0081
   NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
   0738 PM CST Sun Jan 16 2022

   Areas affected...eastern Ohio/northern and western Pennsylvania/West
   Virginia Panhandle/western New York

   Concerning...Heavy snow 

   Valid 170138Z - 170745Z

   SUMMARY...Heavy snow is forecast over the next several hours from
   eastern Ohio east-northeastward to the western half of New York. 
   Widespread rates of 1" to 2" per hour are expected.

   DISCUSSION...Latest water vapor loop shows an upper low moving
   eastward across the western Carolinas at this time, with a turn to
   the northeast -- into Virginia -- expected tonight.  Meanwhile, a
   994mb surface low analyzed over southeastern Virginia is forecast to
   retrograde north-northwestward with time, reaching a position over
   south-central Pennsylvania by sunrise.

   Currently, a pronounced dry slot is observed nosing northwestward
   from North Carolina across western Virginia into West Virginia/far
   southwestern Pennsylvania, near the nose of an 80-plus kt
   southeasterly low-level jet.

   Intense low-level warm advection across the Upper Ohio
   Valley/central Appalachians area has resulted in the snowfall
   becoming mixed with -- or even changing over briefly to -- freezing
   rain and/or sleet, mainly south of the Mason/Dixon line and
   southeast of the Ohio River over the past hour.  

   To the north, precipitation has remained in the form of snowfall --
   heavy at times across portions of the region as heavier bands spread
   northward/northwestward.  As the aforementioned upper low advances,
   and the dry slot continues to pivot northeastward with time, the
   primary wraparound/deformation zone will become established from
   eastern Ohio east-northeastward to western New York.  Within this
   area, strong ascent, a saturated lower and middle troposphere, and
   favorable vertical thermal profiles will combine to support
   persistent, moderate to heavy snowfall through and beyond midnight,
   with rates 1" per hour and locally near 2" per hour in heavier
   bands.

   ..Goss.. 01/17/2022
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1 minute ago, Mailman said:

MD 81 graphic

 

Mesoscale Discussion 0081
   NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
   0738 PM CST Sun Jan 16 2022

   Areas affected...eastern Ohio/northern and western Pennsylvania/West
   Virginia Panhandle/western New York

   Concerning...Heavy snow 

   Valid 170138Z - 170745Z

   SUMMARY...Heavy snow is forecast over the next several hours from
   eastern Ohio east-northeastward to the western half of New York. 
   Widespread rates of 1" to 2" per hour are expected.

   DISCUSSION...Latest water vapor loop shows an upper low moving
   eastward across the western Carolinas at this time, with a turn to
   the northeast -- into Virginia -- expected tonight.  Meanwhile, a
   994mb surface low analyzed over southeastern Virginia is forecast to
   retrograde north-northwestward with time, reaching a position over
   south-central Pennsylvania by sunrise.

   Currently, a pronounced dry slot is observed nosing northwestward
   from North Carolina across western Virginia into West Virginia/far
   southwestern Pennsylvania, near the nose of an 80-plus kt
   southeasterly low-level jet.

   Intense low-level warm advection across the Upper Ohio
   Valley/central Appalachians area has resulted in the snowfall
   becoming mixed with -- or even changing over briefly to -- freezing
   rain and/or sleet, mainly south of the Mason/Dixon line and
   southeast of the Ohio River over the past hour.  

   To the north, precipitation has remained in the form of snowfall --
   heavy at times across portions of the region as heavier bands spread
   northward/northwestward.  As the aforementioned upper low advances,
   and the dry slot continues to pivot northeastward with time, the
   primary wraparound/deformation zone will become established from
   eastern Ohio east-northeastward to western New York.  Within this
   area, strong ascent, a saturated lower and middle troposphere, and
   favorable vertical thermal profiles will combine to support
   persistent, moderate to heavy snowfall through and beyond midnight,
   with rates 1" per hour and locally near 2" per hour in heavier
   bands.

   ..Goss.. 01/17/2022

Just north of me.

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1 minute ago, Mailman said:

MD 81 graphic

 

Mesoscale Discussion 0081
   NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
   0738 PM CST Sun Jan 16 2022

   Areas affected...eastern Ohio/northern and western Pennsylvania/West
   Virginia Panhandle/western New York

   Concerning...Heavy snow 

   Valid 170138Z - 170745Z

   SUMMARY...Heavy snow is forecast over the next several hours from
   eastern Ohio east-northeastward to the western half of New York. 
   Widespread rates of 1" to 2" per hour are expected.

   DISCUSSION...Latest water vapor loop shows an upper low moving
   eastward across the western Carolinas at this time, with a turn to
   the northeast -- into Virginia -- expected tonight.  Meanwhile, a
   994mb surface low analyzed over southeastern Virginia is forecast to
   retrograde north-northwestward with time, reaching a position over
   south-central Pennsylvania by sunrise.

   Currently, a pronounced dry slot is observed nosing northwestward
   from North Carolina across western Virginia into West Virginia/far
   southwestern Pennsylvania, near the nose of an 80-plus kt
   southeasterly low-level jet.

   Intense low-level warm advection across the Upper Ohio
   Valley/central Appalachians area has resulted in the snowfall
   becoming mixed with -- or even changing over briefly to -- freezing
   rain and/or sleet, mainly south of the Mason/Dixon line and
   southeast of the Ohio River over the past hour.  

   To the north, precipitation has remained in the form of snowfall --
   heavy at times across portions of the region as heavier bands spread
   northward/northwestward.  As the aforementioned upper low advances,
   and the dry slot continues to pivot northeastward with time, the
   primary wraparound/deformation zone will become established from
   eastern Ohio east-northeastward to western New York.  Within this
   area, strong ascent, a saturated lower and middle troposphere, and
   favorable vertical thermal profiles will combine to support
   persistent, moderate to heavy snowfall through and beyond midnight,
   with rates 1" per hour and locally near 2" per hour in heavier
   bands.

   ..Goss.. 01/17/2022

Damn we are right on the edge 

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