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Old 01-19-2019, 10:59 AM
 
Location: Fox Chapel
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Perhaps it's just me but ever since I was a kid in Pittsburgh, it seems that the local weather people are so far off when it comes to predicting winter storms that, nine times out of ten, if Pittsburgh & vacinity is supposed to get 3-5 inches of snow, for instance, we get a dusting or nothing. I can't tell you how many times I've gone to bed hoping for a big snow that was forecasted, hoping school would be closed the next day, only to wake up, look out the window and nothing, nothing whatsoever. Seriously, this happens every time a big snow is forecasted. At the last minute, literally, or even after the storm was supposed to have started, these "experts" come on the news and tell it just missed us or, if it were one degree colder this rain would...etc, ect, etc. Seems when it comes to forecasting snow that the local weather folks are as consistent at being wrong as much as the PA turnpike is consistent in raising tolls.
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Old 01-19-2019, 11:45 AM
 
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They were forecasting 4 to 9 inches last night. That spread is a big clue they have no idea what is coming.
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Old 01-19-2019, 11:48 AM
gg
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Rain. Ha ha ha. Too funny. Turnpike closed to trucks. Ha ha ha
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Old 01-19-2019, 11:57 AM
 
Location: Pixburgh
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One of my biggest pet peeves. these 'storms' and the frenzy they get people into. My daughters pinewood derby today was cancelled, it would have been almost over by now and not a flake..

I really wish the threat of 4 inches when I was dating was as exciting as it is now, Id have been so much more popular.
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Old 01-19-2019, 12:30 PM
 
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It is better for ratings and allows the news to fill time. If it was a rain event no one would care or watch.
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Old 01-19-2019, 12:43 PM
 
Location: Manchester
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It's not just local weather folks, it seems to be all weather folks. I mean I get it, it's difficult to know what is going to happen, but I agree with the above poster concerning how everything shuts down even before a flake falls.
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Old 01-19-2019, 01:35 PM
 
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I have no memories of schools being closed or delayed due to snow or cold temperatures as a kid. I didn't live in a district where kids rode busses. We walked. I do have a specific memory of walking to the third grade when the temperature was -18F. I suppose the Big Snow closed schools, but I wasn't around for that one.
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Old 01-19-2019, 01:46 PM
gg
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Our moron governor closed the turnpike to trucks. So overblown.
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Old 01-19-2019, 01:59 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Our moron governor closed the turnpike to trucks. So overblown.
He made a call based on what the science was predicting at the time. If he hadn't done anything and people were injured or worse from driving in treacherous conditions, then you'd be criticizing him for a lack of action.
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Old 01-19-2019, 02:09 PM
 
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Predicting weather is probably one of the hardest jobs in the world. In baseball, you're outstanding if you get a hit on a 95 mph fastball 30% of the time. And no healthy person ever asks their physician to predict how long they'll live or exactly how many days their cold will last. Predicting the future is hard. Science is hard. Anyone who can do better should give it a try - if you do better than the current pros, you'll make a fortune.


And for the record, they got the temperature and form of precipitation wrong but they did get the fact that there would be precipitation right.
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