363 FXUS61 KPBZ 011649 AFDPBZArea Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Pittsburgh PA 1249 PM EDT Wed Oct 1 2025
.SYNOPSIS... Seasonable and dry conditions through Thursday will be followed by a warming trend into the weekend.
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.NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... KEY MESSAGES:
- Dry and seasonable conditions today. - A frost advisory for portions of the area overnight. -------------------------------------------------------------
Surface high pressure and subsidence will dominate the pattern through tonight with a light easterly wind. Mixing into the subsidence inversion today may allow surface relative humidities to drop into the upper 20s to low 30s in some areas and suppress widespread cloud cover. Temperatures will remain near seasonal normals.
Light easterly flow and mostly clear skies, save a few transparent high clouds, will allow for efficient radiative cooling tonight, particularly for sheltered valley drainages. A frost advisory was issued accordingly where frost is most likely, but frost could not be ruled our in isolated pockets across much of western PA and the mountains of West Virginia.
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.SHORT TERM /THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT/... KEY MESSAGES:
- Dry conditions prevail with a warming trend. ----------------------------------------------------------------
There is high confidence in continued high pressure through the weekend with upper ridging setting in and taking high temperatures up around five degrees between Thursday and Saturday with a slow and steady warming trend each day. By Saturday, highs will sit around ten degrees above normal with lows near average with effective cooling each night. High pressure will suppress rain chances with high confidence with only a few high clouds most likely Thursday night into Friday morning.
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.LONG TERM /SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/... KEY MESSAGES:
- High confidence in a mostly dry and warm forecast through Sunday night. - Lower confidence in Temperatures and rain thereafter. -------------------------------------------------------------------
There has been slightly increased confidence in eastern troughing sometime in the middle of next week, but there is still some timing uncertainty in the arrival of that trough and the amplitude of the longwave trough axis. This has reflected in a downtrend and lowered standard deviation of the ensemble 2m temperature outputs. It appears the most likely passage time will be between Tuesday and Wednesday with temperature spread roughly 6x to 8x more than Monday and a lowering of ensemble medians. The range of "most likely outcomes hover with temperatures somewhere around normal with probabilities of rain highest Tuesday and Tuesday night. Higher totals pushing 1" would rely on a deeper and slower trough passage, while lower end totals of rain would generally be more related to a weaker or faster passage.
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.AVIATION /18Z WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY/... A strong high pressure over Quebec with a ridge extending southwestward to western Tennessee will gradually move southeastward to northern New England by tomorrow. During this time, a light northeasterly wind today will gradually veer southeasterly tomorrow. Mostly clear conditions today with cirrus moving in tomorrow.
.OUTLOOK.... Patchy river valley fog is possible during the weekend, otherwise VFR is expected through Sunday under high pressure.
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.PBZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... PA...Frost Advisory from 2 AM to 9 AM EDT Thursday for PAZ009-016. OH...None. WV...Frost Advisory from 2 AM to 9 AM EDT Thursday for WVZ514.
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