Tuesday, January 30, 2007

36 hour Weather Forecast

Tonight - Scattered snw showers around the region. Low 14.

Tomorrow - A chance of flurries. High 24.

Tomorrow Night - Partly Cloudy, a passing flurry. Low 17.

Monday, January 29, 2007

Weather Forecast 1/29 - 1/30

This week looks to be quite the same as the last week. The threat of snow is in the forecast everyday this week. We woke up this morning to windchill down below zero. (see windchill in this blog) .

Today- Mostly Cloudy with a chance of scattered snow showers. High 23.

Tonight - Mostly Cloudy with a chance of snow showers, more likely after midnight. Low 16.

Tomorrow - Mostly Cloudy with Snow showers likely. High 27.

Sunday, January 28, 2007

What is Windchill?

What is windchill?

Windchill is commonly defined as what the air feels like on your skin. This equation takes the temperature with the effects of the wind calculated in, which gives you a nice number of what it feels like to your body.

The windchill in some cases will cause serious injury and could even kill you. The on set of frostbite can be very quick on any unprotected skin. Ie: If the temperature is 5 degrees above and the winds are 30 mph frostbite can begin in 30 minutes again on any unprotected skin.

The national weather service the government agency charged with the task of weather forecasting along with taking records of the weather. They developed a "new version" of the windchill index

Weather Forecast 1/28 - 2/1

Over the next few hours snow will become more widespread, in the Pittsburgh area we will see 1 -3 inches North and East of the city 2-5 inches with the laurels receiving 4 -8".

Today - Period of snow showers. High 29.

Tonight - Snow, heavy at times. Low 14.

Tomorrow - Scattered snow showers. High 29.

Monday Night - Cloudy, chance of snow showers. Low 15.

Tuesday - Cloudy, chance of snow showers. High 26.

Tuesday Night - Cloudy, chance of snow showers. Low 14.

Wednesday - Partly Cloudy. High 25.

Wednesday Night - Partly Cloudy, chance of snow showers. Low 15.

Thursday - Cloudy, chance of snow showers. High 30.

Thursday Night - Snow showers. Low 23.

Friday, January 26, 2007

Weather Forecast 1/26 - 1/30

The snow showers that we experienced yesterday are coming to an end. Behind the Low pressure system that is move thought the region last night we are waking up to below normal temperatures. The normal low for this date is 20 this morning at Pittsburgh International (where weather records are recorded) the Low was 5 above, which is 15 degrees below normal. This produced windchill reading well below zero and made many schools around the area two hour delay.

Today - Cloudy, a chance of snow showers. Wind SW@ 5 -10. High 27. Windchill 5 above to 5 below.

Tonight - Cloudy, Wind SW @ 10 - 15. Wind West 10 - 15. Low 24.

Tomorrow - Cloudy, slight chance of snow shower. High 37.

Saturday Night - Cloudy, flurries likely. Low 23.

Sunday - Snow Showers likely. High 27.

Sunday Night - Snow Showers likely. Low 13.

Monday - Cloudy, a chance of snow showers. High 21

Monday Night - Cloudy a chance of snow showers. Low 11

Tuesday - Snow showers likely. High 23.

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Weather Forecast 1/25 - 1/29

Today - Cloudy, windy and Snow Showers heavy at times, 1 -2" more North and East of the city. Winds WNW @ 15 - 20, higher gusts. High 26. Windchill in the single digits.

Tonight - Snow showers heavy at times 1-2" addition more North and East of the city. Windy. Winds WNW @ 15 -20 higher gusts. Low 11. Windchill 5 above to 5 below.

Tomorrow - Snow showers tapering to flurries. Winds WSW @ 10 - 15. High 23.

Friday Night - Cloudy, a chance of flurries. Winds S @ 5- 10. Low 21.

Saturday - Cloudy with a chance of flurries. High 35.

Saturday Night - Mostly Cloudy. Low 22.

Sunday - Cloudy with snow showers. High 26.

Sunday Night - Snow showers. Low 13.

Monday - Mostly Cloudy with flurries. High 20.

Monday Night - Mostly Cloudy. Low 12.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Weather Forecast 1/24 - 1/28

Today - Some light snow in the area. Accumulation less than an inch. Wind west 5 -10. High 31.

Tonight - Snow developing, winds from the west increasing to 10- 15. Low 18.

Tomorrow - Snow. Wind west 10 -15. High 23. Windchills in the teens.

Thursday night - Snow tapering to snow showers. Low 9. Windchills 5 above to 5 below.
Total storm accumulation: Pittsburgh area 3- 6"; The Laurels 6- 10";
North of I - 80 8-12"


Friday - Scattered snow showers. High 19.

Friday Night - Becoming Mostly Cloudy. Low 15.

Saturday - Scattered snow showers.High 35.

Saturday Night - Scattered snow showers. Low 18.

Sunday - A chance of Scattered snow showers. High 32

Sunday Night - A chance of Scattered snow showers. Low 17.