Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science at Penn State.

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Good evening and welcome to Weather World.

It's Tuesday, February 10th, 2026.

I'm Caitlin, joined by Christian, Spallone and Christian.

We have gone 18 days here in State College without seeing the temperature past the freezing mark.

Today we broke that pattern.

Yeah, much more mild today across all of Pennsylvania.

And for many breaking that freezing mark.

And I think raining a bit more seasonable over the next couple of days.

Although another shot of cold air as soon as tonight.

Right.

We'll get more details on that in Christian short range forecast.

Also on the show tonight, we'll have the answers to the first block of our trivia contest.

So questions one through five.

But first Christian's got the short range.

Thank you very much Caitlin.

And we'll show some of the impact of that mild air on one of our webcams this afternoon looking over Dubois today.

And we can see as you look at the snowpack, it diminishing gradually on the ground throughout the course of the afternoon as we've had temperatures rise above the freezing mark and even well above the freezing mark in some regions of the state today.

Take a look at our high temperatures so far this afternoon.

You can see.

Take a look all the way down in southwestern Pennsylvania, close to 60 degrees near Pittsburgh.

That's the warmest temperatures there in almost a month, and slightly cooler as you go across eastern Pennsylvania with some cold air hanging on.

But pretty much all these observing sites, with the exception of Mount Pocono here at elevation, breaking the freezing mark today for the first time in a while.

And we've put together some statistics on this consecutive streak of below freezing days across the Commonwealth.

Anywhere where you see the 18, that indicates where the records in this consecutive day stretch were ongoing as of today and have now been broken at all these observing sites, uh, not near the records that we've seen in history here with some 28 and 20 threes, but at least in the top five in many of these locations in the records, actually in Bradford, up to 51 days consecutively below the freezing mark for high temperatures from back in 1977, but still a very impressive stretch across the area.

And with the push of this warmth here, we've seen this with a system that's well up to our north, some southwesterly and westerly flow that's come in underneath that, bringing some warmer air into the region.

And we can see with that system passing by, we'll see a brief brush of a cold front that comes by with some very scattered precipitation this evening.

But the National Weather Service has put out some winter weather advisories in the purple colors here for the northeastern regions of the state, as well as across the Laurel Highlands, where it's a bit cooler at elevation, where there could be some light freezing rain as we go over the course of the evening hours tonight.

Not expected to be a significant threat, however, here's that system well up to our north with low pressure centered over southern Canada.

This is going to cause more notable impacts, especially across New England and Maine, as it intensifies across the coast as we go over the course of the next 24 hours or so.

But the temperatures across the broader region, with a cold air locked in across New England, and the real push of warm air as you go down to the southwest of the Commonwealth, temperatures rising up into the 60s, almost 20 degrees above average, and many of those locations and at least 20 to in some places pushing up to 30 degrees warmer than we just saw about 24 hours ago.

Here's the broader temperature map.

With the bubble of warmth that we've seen develop over the course of the day today, 70s in some areas and even 82 down in southern Texas.

And on our satellite and radar image, we can see that system that's just to the north of us.

Some more moisture coming up across the southern Plains that will start to push out to sea as we go over the course of the day tomorrow.

Here's our surface map for this evening.

With the system that's going to be moving gradually to the southeast over the course of the rest of the day today, bringing with it some light precipitation, some of which will be wintry tonight.

I think we gradually dry out and calm our conditions as we head into the day tomorrow, on Thursday with on Wednesday, excuse me.

And then Thursday, continuing with some of these cloudy conditions and a few snowflakes, I think across areas at elevation in the Laurel Highlands.

You can see this as we go throughout the evening.

Tonight, some of the light precipitation and some of northeastern Pennsylvania, which could lead to a few slick spots.

But the next push of cold air coming in throughout the day tomorrow.

I don't think temperatures move too much by Wednesday, and we'll continue to see the clouds and some light snowflakes across the west stick around as we go into the day on Thursday, but overall, a dry and cloudy stretch coming up the cold front passing through tonight.

This weak system again.

Some slick spots possible in the northeast of the state tonight.

And as we go into the day on Wednesday really blustery winter day.

Strong wind gusts up to 30 to 35mph in some areas of the state, especially across the West.

I think wind gusts could move up at least over 40mph in some areas of the Laurel Highlands.

Overall, mostly cloudy and dry, with some partly cloudy skies possible, especially across southeastern Pennsylvania.

Continuing to be cloudy with a bit more of a relaxation in the wind speeds.

By the time we get towards Thursday, I think with the downslope flows coming off the elevations.

Some more sunny skies remaining in southeastern Pennsylvania but remaining with our highs at least 5 to 10 degrees below average in the 20s across the west, and just breaking freezing across the southeast.

Recap of trivia answers coming up next.

Calling all trivia players.

Tonight's question involves a scrumptious slice of nice during a tornado outbreak in March 2025, a National Weather Service office in Louisiana received a pizza themed morale boost from colleagues in another National Weather Service office far away.

Which of the following is not true about the office that sent the pizza?

Is it a it's on the other side of the international date line.

B it's a US territory.

C its forecast area includes multiple islands or d it's in the southern hemisphere.

Keep your answers close and come back tomorrow night for more trivia right here on Weather World.

Each Tuesday in February, we take some time to review the answers to last week's trivia questions, and we actually had over 200 of you participating so far in this year's contest, but only ten of you got all of last week's first five questions correct.

We'll review those answers in just a moment.

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Okay, without further ado, let's start reviewing some of these questions and revealing the answers.

Question one we asked on Groundhog Day, and it was all about the deepest snowpack that was measured at the closest currently active co-op site to Gobbler's Knob.

And the correct answer for question one was C 21in nearly two feet for that snowpack.

What you need to know here was that the closest co-op site that's still currently active, two Punxsutawney is about 18 miles as the crow flies to the west over in Armstrong County.

That's the Putnamville Dam.

So Ben was doing some data sleuthing to find that deepest snowpack on Groundhog Day at that observing site.

It actually occurred back on Groundhog Day in 1985.

21in was the snow depth.

So that was the answer for question one.

Question two was asking about a sizable meteorological object that flew into a neighborhood, turning out to be the size of a small shed.

What was it?

So your options here are a weather balloon or radar dome, satellite dish or instrument shelter.

The correct answer for question two was B a radar dome.

And here are some of those snapshots.

This occurred in a neighborhood outside of Indianapolis, Indiana, and you can actually see it was quite large.

The size of a small shed really was one of those things where a lot of folks in this neighborhood, quite startled by this mystery dome that appeared.

Now, it was not the same type of radar WSR 80 that we use for detecting precipitation types or tracking storms.

This was actually from a defense contractor nearby that had to go and collect that dome after the severe storms blew through, but still quite remarkable in that neighborhood.

And Radar Dome, the correct answer for question two.

Moving on to question three.

This was about blizzard warnings for the US Gulf Coast last January, which included the city of Baton Rouge.

They had their snowiest day since 1892, including this event.

How many blizzard warnings have been issued by the NWS for Southwest Louisiana and Southeast Texas?

And between all of these answers here, the correct one was a one.

What you need to know.

This event was quite remarkable.

I was down for the American Meteorological Society conference in January of 2025, and just about a week later, some places like New Orleans ended up picking up close to a foot of snow.

Here are those blizzard warnings that were hoisted right along the Gulf Coast.

You can actually see the snow depth reported in many of these stations along the Gulf Coast, some of which were actually double digits.

A very rare snowfall for this part of the country.

Ben Noll tweeted out actually last January, a snapshot of all the blizzard warnings and the last time those blizzard warnings had been issued, where you see the white showing up here across the Carolinas and the Deep South, that actually indicates weather service offices that have never issued a blizzard warning, at least as of been tracked.

You can see, though, the little gray shading here zero not including the one that had been issued for this particular event.

So one was the correct answer for question three.

Moving on to question four, which of the following measures of tropical cyclone activity was above average in 2025?

And the key here was Northern Hemisphere, not just the Atlantic basin.

What we were looking for was a the number of named storms.

And this was taken right out of an edition of Weather wise at the end of the year, where Giannis was recapping tropical storm stats.

He was looking at some of the data like this from the folks at Colorado State tracking averages, and then the observed values for 2025.

You can see for 2025, we were actually above average for named storms in the northern hemisphere, on par for hurricanes, a bit below average for major hurricanes and below average for ace for that accumulated cyclone energy.

But we were above average for named storms.

That's why that was the answer for question four.

And then for question five, a 2025 severe weather episode in southern Michigan was a challenge for the surveyors working to assess the damage and then estimate the wind speed after the storms.

What did they encounter?

What was the problem?

The correct answer for question five was B the home was already repaired, so these were some of the snapshots of when the surveyors went out a day or two later after the storms blew through.

This is what they encountered.

You see, an Amish home in Branch County, Michigan was damaged and quickly repaired.

They also saw a barn that had been damaged and was also beginning some of the repairs there.

So it's more difficult for the surveyors to assess just how fast the winds may have been.

With a particular storm event.

They were able to piece things together, and that damage occurred by what they estimate to be an EF one tornado with winds of around 100 miles an hour.

But in their survey report, they did detail that an Amish property had been damaged, but the wind speed could not be estimated due to repairs already completed.

Same thing with a Amish home with repairs already completed upon their arrival.

So that's why that was the answer for question five.

Remember, we've got some great prizes at stake this year in the contest.

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So some great prizes at stake.

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Good luck!

Many more questions on the way this month, and we'll be back in just a moment with more.

After quite a mild day across the state today, on Tuesday we'll see a weak system and a cold front cross by the area tonight.

This could lead to some light mixed precipitation and some freezing rain, especially across northeastern Pennsylvania.

Generally, before midnight tonight could lead to a few slick spots if you're traveling across those areas this evening.

Overall, just dry across the rest of the state.

We'll see increasing cloud cover behind that front, especially across northwestern Pennsylvania, temperatures falling down to the upper 20s and lower 30s in southeastern Pennsylvania for lows this evening, a blustery winter day on Wednesday.

Behind that front, gusts up to 30 to 35mph.

More sun across the southeast, with clouds and even a few snowflakes possible across western Pennsylvania as we head into Thursday, remaining dry and cool behind that front and with some clouds, especially across the west, a little bit more sun across the southeast.

Once again, high temperatures around 5 to 10 degrees below average.

But overall, just another wintry day and feeling a bit more, uh, mild still compared to what we've been seeing Caitlyn over the last few days and even over the weekend.

So some slight improvement, but continuing this wintry theme.

And I bet to a lot of us that close to freezing Mark is going to feel a lot more like summer.

Absolutely.

Well, thank you for your forecast tonight, Christian, and make sure to join us tomorrow on the show