In late October 2016, the three local stations WTAE, WPXI, and KDKA published their 2016-17 Winter Weather Outlooks. These reports laid out each chief meteorologist’s total snowfall forecast for the upcoming winter. Now that Spring is here and the National Weather Service has their season snowfall total, we can go back and take a look at who    …Keep Reading

On February 8th, we published a roundup of forecasts for the snowstorm coming later that evening. As expected, the system produced a moderate accumulation that plagued Feb. 10th’s morning commute, leading to hundreds of school delays and closings. The National Weather Service’s Pittsburgh office measured 5.2″ as their storm total snowfall, and that is the measurement    …Keep Reading

On Thursday, January 5th, Pittsburgh picked up 1.9″ of a light, powdery snow. That accumulation fell within the predicted range of all of the forecasters we track. Below is our forecast analysis for each media outlet that we track. This year, we are assigning Accuracy Scores on a traditional A-F grading scale. At the end of each    …Keep Reading

On Tuesday, December 13th, Pittsburgh picked up 3.8″ of snow in the area’s first big event of the winter. All of the forecasters we track underestimated the total snowfall, with some missing the actual accumulation by several inches. This west-to-east system produced a wet, heavy snow that piled up quickly and created a messy evening    …Keep Reading