Winters: what to expect (Pittsburgh: train, cars, parking)

[Sealtite]

Originally Posted by KingKrab

I would always like to see the weather data of when there is actual "grey" days. When I mean "grey", I mean low hanging depressing colorless days.

Those seem to be majority in February and march.

They can be the majority in other months too.....

[KingKrab]

I guarantee if you try to add up the days of low hanging grey clouds from May-November you would not go very long with more than 2 or 3 in a row. Again, My recollection of outdoor days in spring-mid december is typically able to go outside and enjoy myself.

This is coming from a very active person who spends at least 2 hours a day outside running. If I would create a spreadsheet throughout the year of days I go outside running to days I went to the JCC because it was too cloudy and crappy out to exercise outside hey would far favor the days outside.

I tend to think many people weigh more heavy on the negative days then the positive days. Like I said, we are talking complete crappy depressing days. Not cumulus puffy cloud days that don't hinder outdoor activity.

[eastwestman]

Two words: snow tires!

[Caladium]

So are you guys expecting a white Christmas?

[BrianTH]

Originally Posted by Caladium

So are you guys expecting a white Christmas?

The ten-day suggests it will be too warm, but accuracy is so low at that range that doesn't mean much.

[ML North]

I've really come around to winter weather. Up until just a few years ago I really hated cold weather, so much so that I considered moving. It's gradually grown on me over the past few years, and now I'm finding myself bummed out over the lack of snow so far this season.

[Geeo]

If our forefathers, who crossed wind-driven prairies, suffered cataclysmic blizzards, floods, locusts and actual cloudy days, had the same attitudes as many people today about the weather ("It's too cold! It's not sunny enough for me every day! I don't like snow, it's too wet!"), rest assured we would have never populated the continent.

[SammyKhalifa]

Originally Posted by Geeo

If our forefathers, who crossed wind-driven prairies, suffered cataclysmic blizzards, floods, locusts and actual cloudy days, had the same attitudes as many people today about the weather ("It's too cold! It's not sunny enough for me every day! I don't like snow, it's too wet!"), rest assured we would have never populated the continent.

So you think they enjoyed being cold and wet? Or do you think they just put up with it?

I bet that if you gave them the option of 40 and sleet or 65 and sun that they'd pick the second. There's a difference between something being bearable and something being enjoyable.

[Geeo]

I just think that we got soft and lazy and we're not as hardy a stock as our ancestors. If they had been as wimpy as we are, nobody would be living in Minneapolis.

[mike02]

Originally Posted by Caladium

So are you guys expecting a white Christmas?

White Christmas in the Burgh? Hahaha that's a funny one. As Sealite described before, from Nov-Mar the weather in the Burgh gets very sickening. It gets infected with a cancer that causes depressing grey skies minus the abundance of pretty white snow. This week is a sneak preview of what sloppiness and depression to expect here in the Burgh! The upcoming forecast seems pretty normal.

Sat - mostly dreary (the sun could pop out for 2 minutes!)
Sun - bleak and dreary with a chance of snow
Mon - partly cloudy (don't count on it)
Tue - bleak and dreary with rain
Wed - bleak and dreary with rain/snow mixed (aka SLOPPY)
Thu - partly cloudy (pray to God that happens)
Fri - bleak and dreary
Sat - mostly dreary (the sun could pop out for 2 minutes!)
Sun - bleak and dreary with rain showers (CHRISTMAS DAY)

So basically Christmas Day will be too warm and it will rain! In fact I can predict low hanging ugly dark grey cloudcover and moderate rainfall on Christmas Day in the Burgh. It looks like Erie, PA could have a white Christmas. Of course it will be bleak and dreary, but at least it has the potential to be a White Christmas there. I will be home in NEPA for Christmas Eve/Day and hopefully they will get snow.