January 25, 2014

Global Warming in Pittsburgh, PA

Grew up in Pittsburgh. Many is the time that I have wanted to fly there just to eat at Primanti Bros. again. Anyway, it seems that they have been having a bit of a warming problem - from local station KDKA:
Ice Jam Flooding Could Be Worst Area Has Seen In 2 Decades
Our three rivers are quickly becoming less flowing and more rock solid on the surface.

�We are seeing ice thickening of two to four inches overnight, and there are some places that have as much a six to eight inches of ice that has formed over the past several days,� said Joe Palko, a National Weather Service hydrologist meteorologist.

And despite a glint of sun Friday, there is no temperature change on the horizon significant enough to stop the growing miles of river from doing their glacial impression.
The concern is that when things warm up a bit and the ice starts breaking up, floes are going to go downriver and they will find places to jam and pile up creating ice dams and flooding the areas upriver. Pittsburgh has flooded before, I remember shopping with my Mom at the downtown Joseph Horne department store and seeing the bronze plaque on the outside of the building showing the height of the big flood of 1936. Posted by DaveH at January 25, 2014 9:53 PM
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