By Tim Tender on August 30th, 2010 at 10:06 AM
 Farmer's Almanac - Winter 2010-11 I’m not a big fan nor do I buy into long range forecasting, but I know some of you do.
When I saw this earlier this morning, I knew it was going to be my blog post for the day.
Please don’t take this as gospel. It’s way too early to make a forecast for winter. You might be able to make generalities about the entire season, but that’s about it. Your best bet is to just take the winter month by month as it goes by. There’s no changing the weather.
Here’s some of what the Farmer’s Almanac has to say of the coming winter.
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By Tim Tender on July 27th, 2010 at 12:10 PM
 New zones set to take effect Mid-November Our area is full of so much varied terrain and every once in a while, it makes sense to change some of the boundaries to make better use of the watches and warnings system. That’s what the National Weather Service has done.
Starting in November, Westmoreland and Fayette Counties will each be split into two separate regions. The western region will still go by the county name. The eastern part of each county will add ‘ridges’ to the name. So, eastern Westmoreland County will now become Westmoreland Ridges. The same goes for Fayette Ridges. Take a look at the graphic to the right to see what I mean.
So, why the change? Well, the area is vastly different if you go just a short distance. By separating these regions, it’ll make forecasting and issuing warnings for those areas easier for the folks doing the issuing and easier to understand for everybody in the region. Now, we won’t have ALL of Westmoreland County under a blizzard warning when it only needs to be the higher elevations.
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By Tony Martin on January 22nd, 2010 at 9:05 PM
Here’s a look at how much snow we’ve picked up so far, compared to the seasonal average:
By Tim Tender on January 10th, 2010 at 10:03 PM
A friend on Twitter (@wxbradd) today made reference to an article on WattsUpWithThat.com (@wattsupwiththat). The article tells of the second snowiest December ever in the northern hemisphere. (edit: I found more data that makes this even more exciting, see below.)
That’s a pretty impressive fact.
Take a look at the article for more information.
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By Tim Tender on November 9th, 2009 at 5:46 PM
It’s hard to believe that it’s time for Wintercast already, but it’s here!
Just click into the post to be walking in a winter wonderland.
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By Tim Tender on October 30th, 2009 at 11:49 AM
You know how they say you get smarter by reading things? Well, I definitely learned something today on the weather blog of our sister station, WTOV-9 in Steubenville. I learned that Moscow, Russia is going to stop the major snows for the year.
 Moscow Is Trying To Prevent This! Come again?
Yes… they’re going to cancel this year’s major snows. Get more details below…
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By Tim Tender on October 19th, 2009 at 10:36 PM
NOAA has posted it’s winter outlook and the results are… well… ummm… sorta inconclusive.
The good news is that they’re not predicting a wet winter for us. The bad news is that they’re not necessarily predicting a dry winter, either.
They are predicting that this winter has a 33% chance of being colder than [...]
By Tim Tender on October 15th, 2009 at 7:19 PM
Our Centre County mobile newsroom got this video of the winter weather preps in Centre County.
Take a look…
Click Here!
By Tim Tender on October 4th, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Everybody knows about Punxsutawney Phil and his spring-predicting ways. Is the woolly bear caterpillar the winter equivalent of Phil?
The pyrrharctia isabella, better known as the woolly bear caterpillar (pictured below), is sometimes charged with the impossible task of predicting how harsh of a winter it’s going to be.
According to [...]
By WJAC Weather on April 25th, 2009 at 8:37 PM
With temperatures in the 80s, I hope it’s safe to put this competition to bed. We’ve waited all year to figure out who the big winners were going to be in the snow prediction competition. The results are in:
Here are the numbers that we used for the final totals in the Alleghenies…
Johnstown:Â 67.8″
Altoona:Â 28.7″
State College:Â 20.7″
DuBois:Â 56.6″
Total:Â 173.8″
So, who was the big winner? Click into the post to find out…
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By Tony Martin on April 1st, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Rainfall amounts were a bit lower than forecast across the area today, especially south of route 322. Here’s a look at what we got:
Our next rain event will be much more robust, with a stronger area of low pressure and more moisture. We’ll see a Gulf connection with this one, and [...]
By Tony Martin on March 18th, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Sunshine, blue skies, birds chirping and people outside without heavy coats! Doesn’t get much better this time of year. While we didn’t break records today, two were tied!
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By Tony Martin on March 10th, 2009 at 10:00 PM
We’ve seen our fair share of gusty winds this season, and we have another round right in front of us. A cold front will cross the area tomorrow morning, accompanied by a line of thundershowers. Along the front and for several hours behind it, west winds will gust as high as 50 mph. With [...]
By Tony Martin on March 6th, 2009 at 9:49 PM
What a great end to the week! After starting off with lows around zero Monday morning and wind chills as low as 20 below zero, we really turned things around. Look at the highs on Friday:
It looks like we’ll do just about the same over the weekend, although not everyone will see pristine blue skies the whole time. The best chance of clouds and showers is along and north of I-80 where a frontal boundary will become stalled out. South of there, it’s May with at least partial sunshine and temps pushing 70 in some locations! But for the Northern Alleghenies, while it will be mild, some rain and 50s will be the rule. Again, not bad compared to how we started this week!
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By Tony Martin on February 26th, 2009 at 10:54 PM
There’s not much change tonight unfortunately, but there are a few items of note. One is that most of the models want to take the first part of this storm fairly well to our south and east. This would imply light snow for Saturday night and Sunday. There’s still a few computer models that [...]
By Tony Martin on February 25th, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Here we go again….another winter storm to watch over the next few days! In model land tonight, we have some consensus, but not enough just yet. There’s going to be a storm, but the question remains – where will it go? The Canadian and European take a storm right up the I-95 corridor, while [...]
By Tony Martin on February 24th, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Even though we didn’t set any records today, morning lows were 10 to 15 degrees below average! Temperatures ranged from 4 in DuBois, 8 in Johnstown to 12 in State College and Altoona. After another cold start Wednesday morning, we’ll almost triple our starting temperatures. Many of us will start out between 12 and [...]
By Tony Martin on February 23rd, 2009 at 9:38 PM
We’ve had our bouts of lake effect and lake enhanced snow this season, and last night was another hefty round for some of us. Narrow bands of perfectly channeled moisture and wind allowed bands to form off of Lake Michigan (yes, Michigan), and push their way into the Laurel Highlands. Some moisture was added [...]
By WJAC Weather on November 17th, 2008 at 1:10 PM
I was checking the National Weather Service website and found a pretty cool link. The link states that this week, November 17th through November 21st, is Winter Weather Awareness Week. Pretty good timing, right?
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