{"id":115989,"date":"2026-02-17T12:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/115989\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:11:09","slug":"its-going-to-be-a-pleasant-day-in-the-pittsburgh-area-with-high-temperatures-in-the-50s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/115989\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s going to be a pleasant day in the Pittsburgh area with high temperatures in the 50s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s going to be a pleasant day in the Pittsburgh area with high temperatures in the mid-to-upper 50s.<\/p>\n<p>Any Alert Days Ahead?\u00a0 Keeping an eye on Sunday. Also, stormy condition are expected on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Aware:\u00a0Dense fog advisory in place for places in Ohio this morning<\/p>\n<p>Today is looking dry and warm with highs hitting the mid to upper 50s.\u00a0 I have noon temperatures in the mid-40s, with Pittsburgh seeing a high of 57\u00b0. Winds will be out of the southwest at about 5mph.<\/p>\n<p>Rain chances return on Wednesday, with the best chance for rain happening during the afternoon.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t rule out a rumble or two as the rain moves through.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771330268_693_temp-4.png#.png\" alt=\"temp-4.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Weather Center<\/p>\n<p>Another system kicks through late Thursday into Friday with a higher storm chance happening then. The highest chance for rain on Friday will come before sunrise.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at your weekend, a snow chance is set to arrive on Sunday, with snow and a mix of snow and rain expected through most of the day. Some data is showing upwards of 4 inches of snow, but model data is likely not doing a good job of dividing snow from the mix of rain happening at the same time.\u00a0 We will have more details over the coming days. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771330269_341_temp-1.png#.png\" alt=\"temp-1.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Weather Center<\/p>\n<p>Currently, I have moderate confidence we will all see snow on Sunday, with low confidence on any type of totals.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of global conditions on you<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been in Pittsburgh or Western Pennsylvania over the past two months, you know that this winter season has been brutal when compared to recent winters.\u00a0 I actually had a couple of &#8216;keyboard joes&#8217; remind me that supposedly our snow and winter cold weather is proof that global warming is a scam. While I am always amazed that by now the theory of man-induced global heating isn&#8217;t more acceptable, it is what it is. This is not going to be a &#8216;global warming&#8217; blog. However, while doomscrolling last night, I saw a post that made me want to talk about how our atmosphere works.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oftentimes, we as forecasters don&#8217;t get to talk enough about the big global conditions that are in place and how they impact you.\u00a0 While you are going through your everyday life, there is a constant battle of hot and cold going on all around us.\u00a0 This is due to the uneven exchange of solar energy on a surface that, while not perfectly spherical, it&#8217;s close. We all know that the equator sees an almost year-long direct angle from the sun, whereas our poles never see a strong sun angle. This means the poles are &#8216;colder&#8217; than the equator due to the lack of energy being absorbed. This gets even more complicated because our globe rotates, making one &#8216;warm&#8217; side and another the &#8216;cool&#8217; side.\u00a0 Our atmosphere is fluid, and the battle of hot and cold takes on the form of &#8216;waves&#8217;. We have short waves that often times brings us our rain days when they weep through.\u00a0 We also have long waves that set up a lot longer and give us our weather patterns.\u00a0 So where am I going with this?\u00a0 Just because the weather here has been &#8216;colder&#8217; this season doesn&#8217;t mean that everyone is seeing that type of weather.\u00a0 What we have seen over the past fifty years is that when it comes to these &#8216; long waves&#8217;, the warm surge area is wider than it was one hundred years ago.\u00a0 The cold air pushes are more narrow.\u00a0 The reason I wanted to talk about this was that while we have been having a brutally cold (compared to recent years) winter, the other side of the country has been unseasonably warm. Denver, Colorado saw their 35th 60\u00b0 day this winter yesterday.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the most on record for them, and there is still plenty of winter to go. It&#8217;s one of many warm-weather records that are falling west of the Mississippi.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WEATHER LINKS:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/weather\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Current Conditions<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/school-closings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\">School Closings &amp; Delays<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/upload-your-photos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Submit Your Weather Photos<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s going to be a pleasant day in the Pittsburgh area with high temperatures in the mid-to-upper 50s.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7554,73,75,74,914,913],"class_list":{"0":"post-115989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-first-alert-weather","9":"tag-pittsburgh","10":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","11":"tag-pittsburgh-news","12":"tag-weather-blogs","13":"tag-weather-forecast"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}