TheClimateChanger Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 19 hours ago, TimB said: Highs in the 60s tomorrow and Tuesday and a low in the 40s Tuesday night are officially in the NWS forecast for KPIT. We’ll see if these rare-in-recent-years events come to fruition at the official observing site. Looks like it already hit 70 in the early hours today. Not sure if it gets back there this afternoon. If we get any sunny intervals, then I think it could hit 71-73F. But if stays overcast and drizzly, then it might hover in the upper 60s the remainder of the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimB Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 12 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said: Looks like it already hit 70 in the early hours today. Not sure if it gets back there this afternoon. If we get any sunny intervals, then I think it could hit 71-73F. But if stays overcast and drizzly, then it might hover in the upper 60s the remainder of the day. Yep, we always get screwed by slowly falling evening temps. I’m starting to believe that we’ll never see another high in the 60s or low in the 40s at PIT in July or August again. HRRR has us topping out in the low 60s tomorrow but I suspect it’s way too cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChalkHillSnowNut Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 3 hours ago, TimB said: Yep, we always get screwed by slowly falling evening temps. I’m starting to believe that we’ll never see another high in the 60s or low in the 40s at PIT in July or August again. HRRR has us topping out in the low 60s tomorrow but I suspect it’s way too cold. The high for today is 68 in Farmington….hoping that holds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PghPirates27 Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 current high 66.7F here in evans city 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimB Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 Pretty much a foregone conclusion that PIT won’t see a low in the 40s tonight if it could barely muster a 59 this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimB Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 We did it! First August high in the 60s since 2015. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChalkHillSnowNut Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 A glorious 58 degrees inside the house this AM!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimB Posted August 22 Share Posted August 22 And there’s our first 40s at PIT in August in a decade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PghPirates27 Posted August 22 Share Posted August 22 44.6 here last night! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimB Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 PIT is at exactly normal for the month to date. We should dip ever so slightly below today, but the back end of the month looks warm enough to clinch our 14th straight + month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChalkHillSnowNut Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 In other parts-there’s 2-3” of snow happening right now in the sierra nevadas! In August! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClimateChanger Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 Looks like it could be close to 90 tomorrow. Tuesday and Wednesday may approach the hottest temperature of the summer. Wheeling reached 92F both yesterday and today. Zanesville was 94F today, and New Philadelphia reached 93F. Parkersburg had a record high of 96F today, after reaching record lows Wednesday through Friday in the mid to upper 40s. Actually, yesterday was pretty close to both the record high (missed by 2F) and record low (missed by 4F). I'm guessing that had to be a weathergami. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClimateChanger Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 1 hour ago, TheClimateChanger said: Looks like it could be close to 90 tomorrow. Tuesday and Wednesday may approach the hottest temperature of the summer. Wheeling reached 92F both yesterday and today. Zanesville was 94F today, and New Philadelphia reached 93F. Parkersburg had a record high of 96F today, after reaching record lows Wednesday through Friday in the mid to upper 40s. Actually, yesterday was pretty close to both the record high (missed by 2F) and record low (missed by 4F). I'm guessing that had to be a weathergami. For the record, yes, that was indeed a weathergami at Parkersburg, WV yesterday. Edit: Actually that was Friday’s 89/49. Yesterday’s 94/53 allegedly occurred on two other dates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimB Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 8 hours ago, TheClimateChanger said: Looks like it could be close to 90 tomorrow. Tuesday and Wednesday may approach the hottest temperature of the summer. Wheeling reached 92F both yesterday and today. Zanesville was 94F today, and New Philadelphia reached 93F. Parkersburg had a record high of 96F today, after reaching record lows Wednesday through Friday in the mid to upper 40s. Actually, yesterday was pretty close to both the record high (missed by 2F) and record low (missed by 4F). I'm guessing that had to be a weathergami. Was looking at the record low of 45 set at Parkersburg on Wednesday and that was not only the 3rd coldest low ever recorded there in August, but the earliest in the late summer/early fall season instance of 45F or lower in a nearly 100 year period of record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClimateChanger Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 5 hours ago, TimB said: Was looking at the record low of 45 set at Parkersburg on Wednesday and that was not only the 3rd coldest low ever recorded there in August, but the earliest in the late summer/early fall season instance of 45F or lower in a nearly 100 year period of record. Off topic, but one hell of a two-week period weatherwise there. Current forecast would suggest the high reaches at least 95F for six consecutive days, which would only be the 3rd time on record it reached 95 or better on 6 or more consecutive days there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimB Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 Mesos going nuts with the midweek heat. I feel like the NAM doesn’t usually put out crazy numbers, but it has us at 95 Wednesday afternoon. RDPS has its issues with overmixing, but it’s spitting out triple digits with dewpoints still in the upper 60s. It’ll be interesting to see how hot we can go if it doesn’t rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClimateChanger Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 7 minutes ago, TimB said: Mesos going nuts with the midweek heat. I feel like the NAM doesn’t usually put out crazy numbers, but it has us at 95 Wednesday afternoon. RDPS has its issues with overmixing, but it’s spitting out triple digits with dewpoints still in the upper 60s. It’ll be interesting to see how hot we can go if it doesn’t rain. Just wait until gets into the HRRR range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimB Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 Very well may have attained an unexpected 90 at PIT today. Will be either 89 or 90, but there were 10 straight 5-min obs of 90 so we’ll have to wait for the daily report. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClimateChanger Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 40 minutes ago, TimB said: Very well may have attained an unexpected 90 at PIT today. Will be either 89 or 90, but there were 10 straight 5-min obs of 90 so we’ll have to wait for the daily report. No need to wait now. Up to 90, as of the top of the hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TheClimateChanger Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 2 hours ago, TimB said: Very well may have attained an unexpected 90 at PIT today. Will be either 89 or 90, but there were 10 straight 5-min obs of 90 so we’ll have to wait for the daily report. Wasn't super unexpected to me, although admittedly the official forecast had mid 80s for Allegheny County today. I commented yesterday that it would likely be close to 90F today, based on a review of the models - most of which were showing upper 80s, with the HRRR in the low 90s - and upstream observations with widespread low to mid 90s the prior day. NWS has 92F at the airport each of the next two days... personally, Wednesday looks like the hottest day of the year to me on the short-range modeling. Not sure why the NWS is going so much lower than they did with the June heat wave - maybe concern about clouds and convection, I'm guessing? A number of models have mid to upper 90s for Wednesday, and upstream observations are supportive. 96F in New Philadelphia was a new record, and just 3F shy of the monthly record. Reached at least 98F at Parkersburg, W. Va. for the second straight daily record high, and only 3 or 4F shy of the monthly record. Regardless, if we do 90+ tomorrow, Wednesday and Friday, as per the official forecast, PIT would have 23 90+ days in meteorological summer. That would tie 1966, 1901 & 1884 for 12th most on record. Excluding the suspect 19th century data, only 2 met. summers had more 90+ days since 1900 - 1988 (37) and 1995 (26). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClimateChanger Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 KPIT is up to 91F again. Still suspect we'll make a run for hottest of the year, probably 93-95F range for the high temperature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimB Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 Not too far away, Wheeling recorded a high of 98, which ties 7/7/2012 as the hottest day on record since that station came back online in 1998 after a several decades-long hiatus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimB Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 AGC has hit 95. Two weeks later in the season than the previous latest date it hit 95 since coming back online in 1999. 94 at PIT ties us for the hottest day of the summer so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahoff Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 Number 22 for the year. 93 degrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimB Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 Also yesterday’s high of 94, combined with the first 94 degree day of the season on 6/17, makes 70 days between our first and last 94 degree days of the season. That longevity of 94+ degree days hasn’t happened since 1953. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahoff Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 Wild that it was 49 last week to 94 this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClimateChanger Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 Looks like the morning low was 74F, which would be a record high if it holds. It might not though, due to risk of thunderstorms. Current record high minimum is 73F from 1928. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimB Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 I suspect we put 2 more 90s on the board today and tomorrow. We shall see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClimateChanger Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 4 hours ago, TimB said: I suspect we put 2 more 90s on the board today and tomorrow. We shall see. Wasn’t sure we’d get there today with the cloud cover, but it did reach 90F already. Might be about done though with thickening clouds and even some scattered thundershowers popping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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