It could be a slippery evening rush hour Monday with a couple of inches expected to fall before midnight.
It could be a slippery rush hour Monday. The National Weather Service is predicting a quick moving storm will move through the western Pennsylvania area Monday afternoon and evening. Here is a more detailed look at the forecast for the Pittsburgh area:
Snow showers dumped at least three inches of snow on the South Hills, causing delays on I-79 and Washington Pike
A winter weather advisory is in effect for all of southwest Pennsylvania until 4 p.m. Tuesday. A heavy band of snow showers along a line extending from Beaver County to Fayette County pounded the South Hills for much of the morning. Snow can accumulate a quick one or two inches where these bands of heavier snow showers persist, according to the National Weather Service. Visibilities can become sharply reduced and untreated pavements can become snow-covered and slippery. The snow caused heavy delays on Interstate 79 from the Washington County line to the Parkway West. And traffic was at a standstill on Washington Pike near Bridgeville around 9:30 a.m. Around that same time Upper St. Clair Patch received reports of slow traffic and very …
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Mike Jones
4:40 pm on Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Cathy... I think the lake effect snow has made this weather prediction totally unpredictable. After coming home from Oakland to cover the Fitzgerald inauguration, it alternated between sunshine and blizzard four times. Today's winter weather has been strange. more ›