Snow expected to cease by Wednesday morning
The snow from Monday night continued into Tuesday, although not much additional accumulation is expected to take place.
Monday night brought between 3 to 4 inches of snow to Butler County, with some parts of the county seeing 5 inches.
According to meteorologist Matt Brudy, Tuesday’s snow showers — as of 3:30 p.m. — were mainly concentrated in the northern part of the county. Brudy said little additional accumulation is expected on roads.
“There's currently heavier snow showers on the north side of the county and there’s another couple on the south, so they’re just scattered around,” Brudy said. “(The snow is) having a hard time accumulating since the ground is so warm.”
Brudy added snow showers are not expected to continue into Wednesday and temperatures in Butler County are expected to increase for the rest of the week. According to National Weather Service forecasts, temperatures in Butler will drop to 14 degrees on Tuesday night before rising to a high of 36 on Wednesday, then 50 on Thursday.
According to a Facebook post from the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh, Monday was the seventh day on record (dating back to 1948) which saw both a high temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit, and one inch of snowfall in the Pittsburgh region in the same day — and the first since Feb. 12, 1999.
As a result of Monday night’s snowstorm, six school districts in Butler County either shifted to remote learning or flexible instruction: Butler Area, Karns City Area, Knoch, Mars Area, Moniteau and Slippery Rock Area. Butler Catholic School and North Catholic High School also went to a flexible instruction day.
Three others — Allegheny-Clarion Valley, Freeport Area and Seneca Valley school districts — opened on a two-hour delay, while Seneca Valley did not run its morning vo-tech classes.
In addition, Butler Meals on Wheels did not provide service on Tuesday evening.
As of 3:15 p.m., 108 West Penn Power customers in Butler County are without service — an outage rate of 0.12% of all WPP customers, according to the outage map provided by parent company FirstEnergy. Thirty-two of the outages are based in Butler Township and 29 are in Adams Township.
The other power company that serves Butler County, Central Electric Cooperative, is reporting zero ongoing power outages in its entire coverage area.
