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Meatyorologist

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  1. Summer 2000 or 2001 repeat would be nice, 2011 if we're being more reasonable. Or 1993 if we're choosers.
  2. I'm kidding. Hopefully we're spared here west of the Cascades.
  3. So a big 'ol bowling ball trough parked over Minneapolis from May through October, understood.
  4. I'm in debt with a broken car. Am I still legally allowed to enjoy the weather? Or do I need to apply for a permit?
  5. Minneapolis hadn't set a monthly record high since 1999, until they did it twice in the span of six months, both last September and now this February.
  6. You went back and saw which posts I liked? On your own time?
  7. I agree with him. rain can make things miserable outside. still like it from time to time but it's really a fall/early winter vibe thing for me
  8. Glad you have a game plan moving forward at least. Only route is upwards. Good luck Chris.
  9. Lots of spread dependent on how harshly the GOA trough cuts off in the midrange. Most solutions are less aggressive and sweep it into the area cleanly from the NW... Others go a little cookier in the Pacific and pop up a ridge of varying degrees right overhead. It also seems that the ridger solutions stay warm for longer or maybe even potentiate further amplification of the ridge in the longer range, while the cleaner NWly solutions generally continue the NW flow.
  10. That's intense for a lee cyclone... Tight gradients all across the central US and into the intermountain west. Technically out to sea too given the intense anticyclone offshore from California, if you wish to partially attribute that to the cyclone as well.
  11. Sometime back in Summer 2011 we had a surprise morning midlevel thunderstorm above the marine layer. I was in summer camp at the time. We were walking our way to John Rodgers elementary, when just as we were approaching the building we started getting dry air bolts of lightning, no more than a mile away. It was crazy since there was literally zero rain, and the sun, while blocked behind the stratus, was out of the way of the midlevel clouds, so it still looked like a perfectly normal Summer morning. Just a brief lightning barrage then back to our regularly scheduled programming. Wethre is weerd sometimes
  12. Back in August 2018 I was on a Mississippi River cruise in New Orleans when a band of thunderstorms stalled over the city. One lightning bolt struck the front face of the levee exactly where I was looking. That thunder shook my chest... Amazing stuff. That storm ended up making for the worst flood in DT New Orleans since Katrina. Drove back to my cousin's house through streets flooded with 1-2 feet of water. The parking garage we parked in echoed the constant CG barrage that was occurring right overhead, and the manholes on the street had geysers due to the water overload.
  13. Got a little band of weak early Springtime convection heading into Seattle. Should be a quick spurt of heavy rain and a 5F temp drop, maybe some wind. Starting to get the kind of sun angles now that bring in convective prospects under BSF.
  14. Love cool Aprils. Usually sunny and Spring-y with lots of fun convection. Speaking of, the next couple weeks would be a killer thunderstorm setup for the PNW in July, specifically given the pattern over western North America.
  15. I'm feeling cool April vibes this year. They usually come in chunks w/ -PDO regimes like the one we're in. Chances are next Spring will also be cool w/ this impending NiƱa potentially still breathing by then. After that it could be another 2-3 in the next half decade or so before April troughing goes into remission once more.
  16. 18z GFS is the most neutral possible solution for Seattle. A balanced mix of warm, cool, sun, clouds, rain, and wind. Spring climo.
  17. I'm not supposing that the means by which precipitation occurs matters. My point is that the association between petrichor and convection in the PNW makes some sense since our most memorable storms tend to occur during the dry season, when there is an abundance of petrichor-causing chemicals laying about. Also, our lightning storms often occur on the back end of heat waves, after multiple days of dry, warm weather, so they're often by their own nature primed to be aromatic.
  18. Petrichor is most often a convective phenomena here as the only time it rains after a long stretch of dry weather is during the Summer and early Fall, when our big thunderstorms usually show up.
  19. I'll say! How does this happen? Mixing in the lee of the Appalacians?
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