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Helping some folks out through New Hope church. it’s a program called Neighbor to Neighbor. I love it and a cool way to give back in our world although I think I receive much more from the experience. Meet lots a people this way as well. Yesterday the gal we helped brought out lemonade and undercooked brownies ( gooey and yummy ). Lol, I came to enjoy the John Deer tractor visiting me as it brought gifts !!! Blessed to be able to do this as well. I will be hitting the road soon for a storm chasing adventure though!!!!

I've been keeping track of the weather here in a colorful way

Ended up with a 68/46 day here. Partly to mostly cloudy skies, with clearing again late afternoon. Nice sunset down by the Columbia, and even saw a painted turtle.

More snaps of Americana. It was 93 when we went through Mesquite, NV.

Hope y'all are doing well. Still a road to recovery for me.

2 years ago today

Severe thunderstorm in Klamath County

Speaking of seeing America, I visited the ghost town of Picher, OK on the back end of my eclipse trip. Really fascinating story there, with the lead/zinc mining deposits there creating an environmental catastrophe, and then sadly a devastating EF-4 tornado in 2008 pretty much finished them off. You can still see the giant chat piles from the road hanging over most of the former building sites.

When I see a cool tree…

Sunset pics.

Beautiful morning... coming into NB from PT appointment earlier.

Good looking beastie Auburn airport

Eugene got over half an inch of rain today. Solid.

Cedar Breaks, UT

LIVE LOOK IN from the weather deck. #itscoming

Starting to get to that time of year where we look out for warm core convection. Next week looks like our classic mid-Spring +ENSO cutoff bonanza with lots of potential outcomes, including negtaively tilted troughing. Could be something to grab onto. Haven't had a really good thunderstorm setup since May 2020.

Well this system over preformed here for sure!! 3 rounds of thunder. Still thunder tonight. I have about .88 so far. 2 bouts of light hail. The 2nd round was squall line in my pics below did finally get some spin on it in eastern Wapello county. There was a eery sound that Ive only hear twice iny life... freight train.

A few light showers floating around. This morning’s rain didn’t amount to much. Had to get the sprinkler going to get my fertilizer washed into the lawn.

Couple fun shots touch and goes

A little snow on the ridge behind our house

Beautiful morning in the methow. Everything is green but it’s noticeable how dry the ground is relative to years past.

It's looking good for storms and heavy rain across Iowa Monday night/Tuesday. I'm very much looking forward to this because I really haven't had a thunderstorm yet this year.

We have reached up to a very hot feeling 88 degrees today, our highest temp since last October on the 2nd when we reached 92. We're going to be grilling, playing lawn games, and having a bonfire tonight. A little taste of summer in April!

Had some serious torching that didn’t have ensemble support in the models. The kids sure found it exciting.

Yeah, finally but while I was off the meds I was in rough shape.

Lovely but chilly evening. Currently 49 but feels like 39.

The cool and wet May is looking like the real deal, Andrew. Big Nino to Nina flips tend to equate to stunningly beautiful Mays. 1988, 1998, 2010. We're bound to see blessings, and a whole heck of a lot of them. You've all been warned.

A good amount of severe weather and rainfall from this system.

Some good clouds this evening.

I’ll take a look and see if anything exciting but currently in Auburn looking a this beautiful storm . Looking north from the Toyota dealership. Need some new boots on my rig already 2022 and 70k miles on her

Went to the local beach on Whitefish Lake today. People swimming, boating, beaching, and vibing. In April. In Montana. I feel like we're going to pay dearly for this bliss come August.

Another gorgeous weekend day! Got another landscape freshening phase done, now it’s BBQ time. Oh and a Bobcat paid a visit as well. Waltzed right by the kitchen window so I grabbed my phone as it was rounding the garage and to the side of the house. By the time I got around to that side it had just jumped over my gate.

Pretty amazing to see the rapid collapse of the Nino.

The fact these urbanizing UHI stations are relied on so heavily in surface climate datasets is a joke. It’s obvious sfc datasets are corrupted because the vast majority of “observed” warming has occurred at night, even in areas where cloud cover has declined. Also, satellites are in near perfect alignment w/ sfc datasets over the oceans, but on land sfc datasets are warming up to 2X faster than satellite data in some areas. Yes, GHG-induced warming will also skew slightly higher at night (for a multitude of reasons that require lots of jargon to explain), however it’s a minuscule difference when you actually calculate it, even if you are extra generous w/ how you construct the “fractal” of diurnal/nocturnal fluxes.

So I actually read about that yesterday. Apparently, it's because the urban areas have larger storage facilities for water and can plan accordingly pretty far in advance. The non-urban core is more dependent on consistent snow runoff due to having less storage.

Expecting another warm Spring day. 85-86*. Photo taken at Barry, Texas. 4-8-24

One last shot from that earlier storm drifting off into the Cascades. I’m overlooking Auburn in this photo

That truck is such an ugly POS that barely functions as a truck. I really wonder about the longevity of stainless steel - really feels like a rusty nightmare waiting to happen. The only good looking car they've ever made was the OG Model S.

Ok, so we made it through this brutal weekend. I endured two different outdoor fires with neighbors as well as sitting in the sun for a while and even yardwork without suffering heat exhaustion. It's gonna take a couple of days to recover. Also it has been sunny and nice all morning and thankfully now the clouds are moving in.

Who’s ready to burn in hell?

Tiger mountain this morning. There are foxgloves growing everywhere in that clear cut, it’s going to look awesome in amount a month.

This is a great question. So, if you’re using parcel theory, then you’re assuming an adiabatic process when lifting the parcel. Which means no heat transferred between the parcel and the environment. So no conduction. What is actually assumed to be happening is that the molecules in the parcel are doing work on the molecules in the surrounding air — they are literally bumping into them and pushing them out of the way because the parcel is expanding as it rises. So that cools the temperature of the parcel because of the energy conversion (work being done). But no net heat loss to the environment! dq=0 Another assumption of parcel theory is homogeneity, so there are no faster or slower molecules; they are all the same. If you throw parcel theory out the window and think about the real world, then you would have some conduction, but air is a poor conductor…if you think about a double paned window in the winter. for instance, very little of the heat from your house is getting out through that window because of the air gap. The main failure mode of parcel theory in the atmosphere is mixing. Anyway, hope that helps!

Gorgeous day wow. Did the 6 mile roundtrip hike to Beaver Lake, which is now completely melted and ice free.

Absolutely lovely day.

Nice day.

Tangentially related is the beauty of experiencing a windstorm caused by being on the lee of a mountain. I’ve experienced that just a few times, once because of the Olympics in October of 2010 which brought an all day wind event for Bellevue to Everett. Then a handful of Mt Rainier events in Bonney Lake and Buckley. The best cyclonic storms seem to have a window of five or six hours before it moves on, but those mountain events can be a solid 24 hours of turbidity fun.

I’ve absolutely loved it every time I’ve visited. There’s a vibe I can’t quite put my finger on, but it’s deeper than just the conifers and distant terrain. I love it. I haven’t spent any substantial amount of time there, so I can’t say how I’d feel after a year, but even if it’s not the best long term climate for me, I’ll wager that I would enjoy it for a time, at least. I’d be fascinated to learn/experience all the microclimates, mesoscale quirks, and different types of weather that I don’t get to experience here. I like learning, and I like trying new things. For instance, most windstorms here are sunny or have a broken cloud deck. I’d love to experience a windstorm with dark clouds and precip like you get in the PNW, and I’d also be interested to hear how it sounds through the trees there (I assume the acoustics from a softwood forest are very different from a hardwood forest).

Where in the world am I now?

This is quite a shot. Total eclipse over Progressive Field in Cleveland. How cool to take in the eclipse and then a baseball game.