Winter Weather Advisory Remains In Effect Overnight
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- The frigid air has moved in and a fresh blanket of snow coated the region Thursday, making the evening rush hour challenging.
The flakes started flying in the late morning and early afternoon hours, and picked up south of the city as the night went on.
The National Weather Service put Fayette, Greene, Somerset and Westmoreland counties all under a Winter Weather Advisory through Friday morning.
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KDKA chief meteorologist Jeff Verszyla says the Pittsburgh area can expect to see one to two inches locally, but areas to the south are getting between two to four inches.
"Couple of breaks starting to show up west and north of Cleveland right now and that's some of the drier air that will start to nose in here very late tonight and early in the day [Friday]," said Verszyla in his nightly forecast. "The moisture still moving away, the lion's share of the snow shower activity now shifting across Pennsylvania and we're on the back edge of things. A couple more hours we should be in the clear all together as the energy continues to race away from us."
During the overnight hours, the temperature will dip down to 14 degrees with mostly cloudy and cold conditions.
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Some schools are already calling in delays for Friday. Check here to see if your school is impacted.
Once the snow wraps up, the cold temperatures will hang around.
"The breakdown of Friday shapes up like this," Verszyla said. "We start at 14 degrees, maybe some lingering clouds first thing, which will break for sunshine over the course of the afternoon and we'll see the high temperature climbing into the low 20s. Though not a bad looking day, certainly chilly with those numbers only in the low 20s."
It will stay cold through the weekend with highs Saturday and Sunday in the 20-24 degree range.
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