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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.

Who’s ready to burn in hell?

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.

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

It was too bad the weather wasn’t a little more interesting for layover day in Denver last weekend. High clouds, WINDY, and mid-70s. Took the train from the airport to Downtown, grabbed some coffee and got a nice walk in along the South Platte River. First time exploring Denver really.

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.

Nice evening. Pleasantly cool. @TT-SEA you can see some trees getting ready to leaf in some weeks.

Good news is burning is allowed today. When I burn the wet straw from the dog kennels I will make sure the wind is blowing towards @MossMan's house!

Live view this morning from a hotel in Bellevue... we had to use free points that were about to expire so did dinner and bowling night with the kids. Heading to Charleston in a few days so stayed very local this time. Unlike all you rich 1% people traveling all over the country on your own dime for a 4-minute eclipse... Charleston is an annual tag long business trip at no expense to us.

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!

Andrew, I’d still love you if you were the color of a baboon’s a**.

85 is too cold. 105 is better. 125 is ideal.

85 fuuking degrees. Overachieved by 7°F. Tim would be in heaven right now.

Cottonwoods starting to take on the glossy green summer look here now. A couple weeks out from puffball mania.

Not sure but I can tell you I was quite worried about WW3 earlier but now I feel like calmly and meekly paying my taxes.

Another pic 5 minutes or so later

Interesting contrail situation….

Hoping for some rain tomorrow since I fertilized this morning.

Costco Issaquah parking lot... no snow piles to report.

Pretty strong troughy signal on the 00Z EPS towards the end of the run.

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!

00Z ECMWF looks much less troughy later in the run than it's 12Z run. Nice when things trend the good way. Monday is solidly cloudy and chilly... Tuesday ends up quite sunny but still chilly. Then looks like a pretty nice run of sunny, pleasant weather.

Sunset pics.

Cicadas.

incredible. I also saw some black rabbits. apparently they live here, never knew, just chilling in the lawn of the brewery

An overperformer I see.. got to 84 for a high. The forecast was 80-81 on a couple sources. 77 right now, with some light winds continuing but not as strong as they were this afternoon.

Looks like a mid summer day at T-Mobile for the Mariners game. Better than the roof closed cold misery that will be tomorrow's game.

Quite the stunner out there, fellas. Gonna be quite the finish in Augusta!! Hope it snows next winter!!!

Indeed... will be doing that at some point this afternoon.

It’s noon somewhere.

when in doubt drink beer in the sun

Up to 57° here in Eastside Tacoma at the moment

At least we had a fairly wet winter down here.

Jesse may flog me for this, but I don't hate the 12z GFS. If it is going to be dry may as well have some frost chances.

No... but good question. My son does and he might go to Charleston for work. I am tagging along with my wife for a conference.

I always thought the adiabatic process was all about friction, at least in the weather world. Usually upslope vs. downslope and the excitement/relaxing of the molecules. Of course it’s just armchair stuff, my actual science knowledge is purely wannabe status.

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

Looks like i will finish with 44.2" 38 of which fell in 11 days. A Crazy winter.

GFS gives bountiful snowfall to the central Rockies over the coming 6 days. Good news for irrigation this summer throughout the Southwest...the upper Colorado river basin snowpack is already in pretty good shape, upcoming pattern will improve things further.

Seize the weekend!

Your good home slice. Anything is better than torching.

My main point was, though quite dry, the 12z GFS is not torchy at all.

California keeps stealing all your rain.

He sends $8/mo to Elon for a blue check mark! That means he MUST be 100% reliable! Fact!

Warm and windy conditions have drought conditions worsening quickly over western MO and other parts of the Midwest. Hopefully some rain is coming this week with a rather robust closed low that should crank out some big storms. http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/soilmst/img/curr.w.anom.daily.gif

Looks like 85 was our high today. 85-90 tomorrow and Monday. Storms and rain Monday night through Tuesday. Cold rain/wet snow Wednesday night into Thursday.

I ended up in Clarksville AR. I went the day of but massive traffic getting out there meant I couldn't go quite as far east as I wanted and the partial was well underway when I got to the park I stopped at. With that said, there were just a few high clouds and overall it was a great viewing experience. It definitely got darker during the eclipse than 2017 since I was a little more under the totality path. I was able to see two prominences, the diamond ring effect on both sides, and the mesmerizing corona. I think the corona looked even better than last time and few pictures can capture how amazing it actually looked. The one in 2045 goes right over my house so if I am still here that will be fun.