I'm looking for some answers...and maybe someone can help me

[tomboudreau]

I was just on the Weather Service website for Pittsburgh, and I clicked on a link for historical rainfalls after tropical systems hit the Pittsburgh area. I noticed something very strange about the report for Hugo back in 1989. They reported 1.49 inches of rain from the system...but they also reported a TRACE of snow! Does anyone have any idea how snow could fall in a tropical system. Here is the link...http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/pit/hurricane.htm If anyone has an explaination on this, I would like to hear. Thanks.

Tom

[Josephine96]

Tom- I heard from somebody earlier this week that some of the cold tops got so cold from Hugo that they actually formed hail stones...

My guess would be, the colder the cloud top... the better the chance...

[weatherluvr]

Well, by the time it was in Pennsylvania, it was extratropical, and if memory serves, there was quite a NW wind (I actually lost my lights that night). It's possible it could have been a smattering of graupel, which is counted as snow.

[Rainband]

We had thundersnow when I was in PA last christams :o visiting my sister..Mother nature throws out some curve balls here and there

[themusk]

Ahh, but you haven't really lived 'till you've had to stop shoveling snow and come back inside because of frequent intense lightning

[paradoxsixnine]

Ahh, but you haven't really lived 'till you've had to stop shoveling snow and come back inside because of frequent intense lightning

Damn...really???

[Josephine96]

LOL or what about the "Ocean Effect" snow we had around here on January 24th...

We had record low highs across Florida that entire day.. I wore a hockey jersey, 2 sweaters and a jacket and the winds blew threw them all..

I think our afternoon high here was about 45 that day but a lot of coastal cities never got out of the 30's..

[ColdFront77]

John, I remember that day. Of course I didn't see "Ocean Effect Snow Flurries" in this portion of Florida... south of Ocala.

The temperature was in the mid 40's on a Sunday morning in January in 2001, too.

[themusk]

Ahh, but you haven't really lived 'till you've had to stop shoveling snow and come back inside because of frequent intense lightning

Damn...really???

Well I don't know about the "haven't lived" part (though it was a great excuse not to shovel snow ).

This happened to me during the 1993 "Superstorm", in upstate NY. I owned a small sporting goods store at that time, and I was trying to keep the walk outside clear of snow. Nature decided instead that I should go home and let the snow pile up.