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Old 06-29-2012, 09:44 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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My former hometown of Reston, VA was just slammed with 80-mile-per-hour wind gusts. I suppose I AM glad we "just missed" this storm system, despite our drought.
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Old 06-30-2012, 12:00 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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My former hometown of Reston, VA was just slammed with 80-mile-per-hour wind gusts. I suppose I AM glad we "just missed" this storm system, despite our drought.
Yeah they had the same problems in Ohio. Apparently something similar may come our way tomorrow and Sunday too. It cooled down though so that's the most important thing.
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Old 06-30-2012, 12:21 AM
 
Location: The canyon (with my pistols and knife)
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Our weather service in Pittsburgh is absolute garbage. They low balled the high for yesterday and today by almost 5 degrees and the entire metro should have had a heat advisory yesterday and today, not just the few southern counties like today. It got just as hot north of Pittsburgh yesterday and today. It shouldn't take a H.I. of 100 for a heat advisory in an area where it hasn't been this hot in 17 years.
More specifically, they're garbage when it comes to forecasting hot weather. I keep track of the weather in Pittsburgh throughout the year, and they seem to have a pretty good handle on winter weather and severe thunderstorm/tornado risk days, but they really do drop the ball with heat waves, and their forecast high temperatures are often too low. They also fail to give anybody advance notice of the heat. Witness the lack of a heat advisory until late this morning, when some places in the Pittsburgh area had already reached 90 degrees. Also, on Tuesday the National Weather Service in Cleveland forecast a high of 96 for Thursday, and the National Weather Service in Columbus forecast a high of 100, but the forecast high in Pittsburgh? 91. Right. The Weather Channel was the most accurate from more than 48 hours out, forecasting a high of 96 for Thursday and 95 for Friday.
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Old 06-30-2012, 01:59 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, USA
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The weather is presented on the assumption that we all live near the airport and should accept all the crap our worthless TV stations brainwash us with.
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Old 06-30-2012, 02:20 AM
 
Location: The canyon (with my pistols and knife)
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Never mind that a) people who live in Moon, Robinson, Findlay and North Fayette Townships really do live near the airport, b) you really do have to pick one place to make official weather observations for archiving at the National Weather Service, c) airports are logical places to observe the weather because the dynamics of airplane flight are greatly influenced by it, and d) virtually every major U.S. city makes their official weather observations at their airports. Never mind all that stuff. Let's just pretend we're George Carlin for the 3,241,905,862,739,035,830,134,769,347,732,907th time.
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Old 06-30-2012, 05:19 AM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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Never mind that a) people who live in Moon, Robinson, Findlay and North Fayette Townships really do live near the airport
Yeah, but there be dragons out that way!
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Old 06-30-2012, 05:21 AM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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The only flip-side about using the airport for our official weather observations is that it totally downplays the presence of a local urban heat island effect. As I already mentioned my partner's rather accurate thermometer said it was 99 degrees yesterday in Shadyside for a brief time, and I'd presume it was probably 100 degrees Downtown. As such when some members say that we "should have just hit 100 degrees for the heck of it" we very likely DID in the city proper where it often IS a couple of degrees warmer than our very far-flung exurban airport.
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Old 06-30-2012, 05:28 AM
 
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We stood on our porch and watched it rain two blocks away. That's how scattered thunderstorms are this year!
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Old 06-30-2012, 05:34 AM
 
Location: Wilkinsburg
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Yeah, but there be dragons out that way!
A ton of hookers too.
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Old 06-30-2012, 07:54 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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More specifically, they're garbage when it comes to forecasting hot weather. I keep track of the weather in Pittsburgh throughout the year, and they seem to have a pretty good handle on winter weather and severe thunderstorm/tornado risk days, but they really do drop the ball with heat waves, and their forecast high temperatures are often too low. They also fail to give anybody advance notice of the heat. Witness the lack of a heat advisory until late this morning, when some places in the Pittsburgh area had already reached 90 degrees. Also, on Tuesday the National Weather Service in Cleveland forecast a high of 96 for Thursday, and the National Weather Service in Columbus forecast a high of 100, but the forecast high in Pittsburgh? 91. Right. The Weather Channel was the most accurate from more than 48 hours out, forecasting a high of 96 for Thursday and 95 for Friday.
Everyone should have had a heat advisory on Thursday and yesterday. They are total idiots IMO downplayed this significant heat event.
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