Temperatures Monday could drop to -16 degrees
The low temperature recorded at the Pittsburgh-Butler Regional Airport in Penn Township on Sunday, Feb. 8, was -7 degrees Fahrenheit, but Monday is expected to be colder yet.
Butler County’s temperature Monday morning would be -13 to -16 degrees, Liana Lupo, meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said in a Sunday evening interview.
She wasn’t surprised to hear area school districts had already decided to delay the start of classes.
“Today stayed cold, and tomorrow, it’s colder, but tomorrow it will warm up,” Lupo said. “Warm is a relative term.”
Temperatures are expected to warm to the mid- or upper-20s on Monday, and they could reach into the 40s on Tuesday.
Amid the subzero temperatures, Lupo advised people bundle up, keep skin covered and minimize time spent outside.
“Because the temperatures are colder, it takes a shorter amount of time to get frost bite, hypothermia,” she said.
On Sunday at 5:30 p.m., she said the Penn Township airport had recorded a high of 22 degrees and a low of -7. With a windchill, Butler County residents may have felt like the temperature was closer to -14 or -17, she continued.
The temperatures could continue to change into the evening, she said.
Looking ahead to Monday, she expected a potential wind gust “here and there, but nothing consistent.”
She said the forecast shows only a small potential of precipitation Tuesday into Wednesday.
