Old Man Winter's next big blast is about to blow in. Expect several inches of snow, potentially falling in moderate to heavy bands, from late Friday afternoon through Saturday. Many organizations, including the National Weather Service are calling for snowfall totals of more than 6 inches! That far exceeds the greatest one day snowfall totals we saw with the last major snow system in early January.

Also note that we aren't seeing the worst of it. The eastern Mid-Atlantic will take the brunt of the storm, with snowfall totals well over a foot expected in the region, including Washington, D.C.



For more details on the system (including snowfall totals) check out the Weather Center!

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Winter weather has been pounding the region since practically New Year's Day, with snow falling every day but Sunday (according to official reports from Pittsburgh International Airport), and some unseasonably cold temperatures, especially Saturday, January 2, where the high only reached 18 in Pittsburgh. Today, there were reports of several inches of snow falling, from 5 inches in the past 24 hours in Latrobe, to 11 in the same time period in Farmington, PA. To see the full report, click here.

The cool thing is, I just discovered a new, graphical way to track snowfall. A new tool created by NOAA called the NOHRSC Interactive Snow Information allows users to visually see snowfall amounts and many other interesting variables. For examples of what this tool does, click Read more.

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The last article, posted here on April 20th, discussed how the site had been rather neglected for several months. Unfortunately, since then, no other updates were made. Hopefully now, updates can begin to come more frequently.

Today marks the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season. The Hurricane Center has been updated to show the 2009 storm names. A more dynamic system should be out in the near future. (I don't think I've actually ever launched a new version of the Hurricane Center at the actual start of hurricane season.)

There is also new information in the Weather Center for this week. Stay tuned for more (hopefully frequent) updates.

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It's been a while. Updates to this site have fallen by the wayside over the past two months or so, with very few updates to the site. In fact, the last weekly forecast was for December 14, 2008! Hopefully we will be able to get some more updates under way soon (as well as more exciting bigger and better things), but for now, the Weather Center has been totally updated. All forecast sections are now up to date for this week.

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A deep Arctic blast has brought single digit to below-zero temperatures to the region with wind chills reading well below that. A Wind Chill Advisory was in effect from early Thursday until midday Saturday, a period of nearly 36 hours! This is an extremely long time for any weather advisory, but gives some idea as to the extent of the bitterly cold temperatures.

Many schools in the region were canceled Friday because of the cold temperatures. The unofficial observations for Friday in Unity Township, PA are a high of 11.3°F at 2:39PM. The low was a bitter -4.3°F at 7:40AM. At time of this writing, the temperature was -3.3°F, with temperatures expected to fall a few more degrees.

A small warmup is expected over the weekend, but receding slightly into Monday. Full details on the rest of the week will be available on the Weather Center at a later time.

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