LOL @ "All smart, young people can't wait to leave Pittsburgh!" (Upland: house, water heater)

[fleetiebelle]

Mayor seeks young adults for commission

Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl is seeking applications from young adult residents who want to serve on his Propel Pittsburgh Commission.
Applicants must be 20 to 34 years old.
Mr. Ravenstahl established the commission in 2007 to make the city more attractive to that demographic.

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by fleetiebelle

Mayor seeks young adults for commission

Thanks for that link! I just shared it on my Facebook wall and tagged a bunch of my city friends in it! I may just apply.

[psulions2007]

Originally Posted by SteelCityRising

I have a feeling you and I will become very good friends once you move here. I just checked out your profile. We share a passion for Siberian Huskies, we're both interested in weather, we both fell in love with a city we'd never lived in before, we're both 24, etc. I may be a bit jaded since I battled NoVA/DC traffic for a year-and-a-half (i.e. taking an hour to go 6 miles), but I just laugh at Pittsburghers who whine about how bad traffic is.

Haha... I'm just sad that it will be roughly 6-8 years before I can move there! Hopefully by then a good commuter rail project will be in the works

[BrianTH]

For those looking for spring and starting to wonder:

YouTube - Moose A Moose "Believe in Spring Song".wmv

[Denton56]

Originally Posted by SteelCityRising

Why can't I love the city but hate the weather? Thus far Pittsburgh and Pittsburghers overall have made a VERY positive impact upon me for a variety of reasons, but bear in mind I've lived here since November and am still awaiting the supposedly "great Spring weather" people bragged about having here as payback for having shivered in my drafty loft with limited hot water since moving here nearly five months ago. As we head into mid-April I'm just nervous that we'll fail to get a decent Spring before the oppressive summer humidity comes.

Your landlady is legally required to provide heat and hot water. You need to demand those things. I would not continue paying rent on a place that did not provide heat and hot water. Regardless of how cheap it is, it's not worth living like that.

[Denton56]

Originally Posted by psulions2007

Haha... I'm just sad that it will be roughly 6-8 years before I can move there! Hopefully by then a good commuter rail project will be in the works

Perhaps the weather will improve by then! April and May can have some sunny days in Pittsburgh without rain, a few of them anyway. Don't expect anything but gray days from October until mid April, at best. Summers are very hot and humid. A/C is very necessary, but many of the older homes don't have it. Personally, I can't imagine why you would like the weather in Pittsburgh. Perhaps you are fond of gray with rain/sleet/ice?

[BrianTH]

Why do people insist on exaggerating when it comes to weather in Pittsburgh?

Oh well.

[Craziaskowboi]

October is the driest month of the year in Pittsburgh, and my recollection of past Octobers in Pittsburgh has been mostly sunny. The clouds don't become more prevalent until about mid-November, and it's cloudy more often than not until early to mid-April.

By the way, it looks like the low temperatures tonight (April 7, 2011) are colder in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and Boston than they are in Pittsburgh, and they're equally cold in New York and Philadelphia. As for cloud cover, it's cloudy in Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia and New York too. Chicago and Boston have decreasing cloudiness, but Chicago has a 12-hour window before more clouds move in.

It appears that the cloud cover in the mid-Atlantic is the result of a stalled frontal boundary. That can happen sometimes. Last Memorial Day weekend in northern Georgia was a washout from beginning to end, and the sun didn't shine for a week -- in May, in Georgia. It rained every day. That's because a front stalled out over the South. Nobody wanted to slit their wrists over it either, and nobody from other states where it was sunny talked down to us. (Imagine that!)

[Craziaskowboi]

Chicago forecast

THU APR 7: Cloudy, 56/43
FRI APR 8: Showers, 62/49
SAT APR 9: Mostly cloudy, 72/58
SUN APR 10: Mostly cloudy, 70/48
MON APR 11: Partly sunny, 58/42

Detroit forecast

THU APR 7: Partly cloudy, 54/39
FRI APR 8: Rain, 52/42
SAT APR 9: Mostly cloudy, 64/57
SUN APR 10: Mostly cloudy, 76/53
MON APR 11: Showers, 57/40

Cleveland forecast

THU APR 7: Mostly cloudy, 54/40
FRI APR 8: Rain, 55/43
SAT APR 9: Showers, 67/55
SUN APR 10: Partly cloudy, 75/54
MON APR 11: Mostly cloudy, 59/39

Pittsburgh forecast

THU APR 7: Mostly cloudy, 60/45
FRI APR 8: Rain, 54/45
SAT APR 9: Showers, 68/56
SUN APR 10: Partly cloudy, 78/62
MON APR 11: Mostly cloudy, 74/42

Philadelphia forecast

THU APR 7: Mostly cloudy, 58/42
FRI APR 8: Showers, 50/42
SAT APR 9: Mostly cloudy, 59/49
SUN APR 10: Partly cloudy, 72/54
MON APR 11: Partly cloudy, 80/53

New York forecast

THU APR 7: Showers, 53/40
FRI APR 8: Showers, 52/42
SAT APR 9: Mostly cloudy, 57/47
SUN APR 10: Cloudy, 63/53
MON APR 11: Cloudy, 75/53

[Craziaskowboi]

More LOLz, this time from California.

Originally Posted by National Weather Service, Los Angeles

.LONG TERM (FRI-MON)...THE CHANCE POPS CONTINUE IN THE THURSDAY NIGHT TO FRIDAY PERIOD AS THE SYSTEM IS LOCATED NEAR POINT CONCEPTION. THE COLD AIR BEGINS TO ARRIVE ON FRIDAY. LET ME SAY IT AGAIN. THIS IS A COLD SYSTEM WITH THICKNESS DOWN TO 532 AND 500 MB TEMPERATURES DOWN TO -28C...IN APRIL NO LESS. THE COMBINATION OF APRIL SUN AND COLD AIR ALOFT WILL RAISE THE POSSIBILITY OF A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE...WITH THE USUAL POSSIBILITY OF BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE AFTERNOON FORECAST FOR FRIDAY. DUE TO THE EXTREMELY COLD AIR WE COULD SEE SNOW LEVELS COME DOWN TO AROUND 3000 FEET OR EVEN LOWER...IN APRIL NO LESS. THE SNOW COULD BRIEFLY REACH PORTIONS OF THE ANTELOPE VALLEY AND THE UPPER REACHES OF THE SANTA BARBARA MOUNTAINS. IT IS STILL TOO EARLY TO KNOW IF ALL OF THIS IS GOING TO COME TOGETHER AS ADVERTISED BY THE MODELS...BUT CURRENT MODEL CONSENSUS IS REMARKABLE.

Time for all the surfer dudes and chicks to slit their wrists because it's gonna be colder than normal in April.