you must not live inside the city 😂 idk why people in Pittsburgh act like Cranberry means Pittsburgh

Yep. Some places will just have virtual days, a lot will have “asynchronous” learning days where teachers post assignments online for kids to work on that day.

Yeah and not having a helicopter like I do to get groceries automatically makes you, the commentor of this foolishness, poor yourself

And there’s little excitement in predicting 30-40 degrees and grey for 5 months a year.

The point was we were originally predicted to have a couple inches by 6am and woke up at 6am with nothing

Hello, fellow Howard Stern fan

My poor husband spent all of last night refreshing the local news sites. We joked about how he didn’t even care this much about snow days when he was actually a kid.

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For sure on the second part but on the first I dunno - I get the feeling that PPS considers itself to have solved the transportation problem and it’s not even on anyone’s back burner to try to get yellow buses for high schoolers, even if employment trends make that possible at any point.

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And of course it starts snowing bad when I’m already halfway to work lol

Should’ve just told my boss I wanted to work from home today

They were doing that out here in Washington too while the snow was just comin down hard, I was so confused by it 😂 "Am I confused or are y'all? 💀"

Exactly. Local news is generally garbage and that has nothing to do with political bias or journalistic effort and everything to do with profitability. Per screen-minute, weather is probably the cheapest to create and generates the most revenue. Get you all riled up, get you to share, get you to engage with their content, that's the aim.

If it was about real journalism the investigative reporting would happen year round and not just during sweeps months, but that's when they have to invest to see the highest return on their rate cards.

Bicycle heaven!

So when it comes to sit in dinning I tip around 20%

Pizza delivery: i did that for a few years so I slip them like a 10 or sometimes more

Carry out: i will look you in the eyes and press "no tip" when the smallest option is 25%

You are buried too deep in Appalachia

I work outside a lot and i check the weather often. I started to record videos of this on my iPad. I have a collection of rain clouds just magically stopping right before my location. Or splitting apart and passing me by. It was seriously like there was a magic weather shield in the Pittsburgh area.

Where do people go to ski? Have been thinking about trying it out with some friends but unsure where a good spot is

I really don't understand why folks don't just go straight to NWS for weather. Twitter, their website, all of it. I love NWS. Plenty of information for both the lay (me) person and the more weather interested folks!

Yay but I still had to come into work :(

As a non-child-having individual, I have to say...

WHAT?!

How can they do that?!?!

How about you zip it and go back to bed.

This aged like milk 😂

don't even go there i would rather Not shovel 10 inches Thank the heavens above to pass

Several reasons:

1. Traditional low pressure systems weaken as they approach the Appalachian Mountains. Pittsburgh is basically the start of a very lengthy mountainous area, hence the scattering of a lot of storms.
2. This one’s obvious, but we are out of the lake effect snow belt. This is not news to anyone except tourists who think we get a lot of snow. BUT these micro lake based systems end along route 80, AND mess with the air pressure of larger storms traveling East-west, or the fast moving “clipper” storms from the North.
3. We’re still not that high up in elevation. We are a mountainous city, but not high up in the Laurel Highlands enough to get a ton of snow squalls to make up for that… often that results in a 10-15 temperature difference between here and the Seven Springs area, which impacts snowfall greatly.
4. We are too far west for Nor’easters. These are this big news-worthy low pressure systems that start in the south and move north up between the Appalachian mountains and Atlantic coast. These are those awful blizzard style storms that take all that moisture from the south and then dump feet of snow along the coast. We’re too far west for that!

Here’s a crude image kind of showing these concepts:

https://i.imgur.com/ofzRVRJ.jpg