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Pittsburgh/Western PA Spring 2023 Discussion


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Looks like PIT had some obs this morning that included snow, so with the graupel showers yesterday that’s two T’s to start the month. PIT has never observed frozen precip 3 days in the same May (though my backyard did in 2020, and it was actual snow all 3 times). Could it happen tomorrow?

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Looks like PIT had some obs this morning that included snow, so with the graupel showers yesterday that’s two T’s to start the month. PIT has never observed frozen precip 3 days in the same May (though my backyard did in 2020, and it was actual snow all 3 times). Could it happen tomorrow?
Mother's Day weekend 2020 was crazy. I visited someone in New Jersey that weekend. It was snowing there a lot of the day and actually laying on the grass. It was cold, wearing masks everywhere at the height of the shutdowns. It was miserable.

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21 hours ago, TimB said:

Looks like PIT had some obs this morning that included snow, so with the graupel showers yesterday that’s two T’s to start the month. PIT has never observed frozen precip 3 days in the same May (though my backyard did in 2020, and it was actual snow all 3 times). Could it happen tomorrow?

Just kidding. Those 6 hours of rain/snow obs yesterday were recorded as 0, not T.

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RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
0525 PM EDT TUE MAY 02 2023

...RECORD LOW HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT PITTSBURGH PA...

A RECORD LOW HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 44 WAS SET AT PITTSBURGH PA TODAY.
THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 47 SET IN 1897.


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Just now, Ahoff said:

Interestingly, today doesn't seem to be warming like yesterday did.  Cloudier too.  The days seemed to flip what each was supposed to be.

Wildfire smoke. Always seems to affect temps more than expected.

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3 hours ago, Ahoff said:

Looks like Euro is pumping up the heat next week.  It's flirting with a mini heat wave.  That will probably be scaled back once we get closer, but mid-upper 80s look possible, at least now.

If 92 is reached on Thursday, it’ll be the earliest at PIT.

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1 hour ago, Ahoff said:

I mean, we know it won't it that high.  Wait, you mean it's never reached 92 at the airport in May?

All 92+ in May were recorded 1942 or prior. There are a number of such temps at prior observing sites, including a monthly record of 95 that was reached as early as 5/2/1887.

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