4 August 2025
The place I reside within the Metropolis of Pittsburgh it appears to be like like we’re in a drought. The bottom is dry and vegetation are wilting as seen at this picture close to Herrs Island yesterday.
Are we in a drought?
The U.S. Drought Monitor map signifies that the Japanese U.S. is simply fantastic.
Pittsburgh’s year-to-date climate graph reveals only a slight dropoff in anticipated rainfall on the finish of July. In any other case we’re fantastic.
For comparability, click on right here to see Morgantown’s temperature and rainfall graph YTD 2025. They’ve had numerous rain.
Pittsburgh day-to-day rainfall in July tells an fascinating story. It barely rained earlier than I went to Finland on 13 July and has barely rained since I returned. However I missed greater than an inch of rain in Moon Twp on 16 July. Did it rain right here within the Metropolis on that day?
I ask this query as a result of these days, when the Nationwide Climate Service predicts rain for Pittsburgh, it rains all over the place else within the area however the clouds half — north and south — earlier than they attain the Metropolis.
You possibly can see this taking place on 31 July 2025 in these historic radar screenshots from climate.us. I keep in mind this fairly vividly as a result of I canceled plans to attend an outing in Butler County as there was purported to be heavy rain. Hah!
Historic radar screenshots from climate.us
Click on right here to see historic radar photos at climate.us together with different dates and locations.
It appears I’m residing in a localized drought. Is that this taking place to you, too?
