Meatyorologist

I've never interpreted anything Tim does as mockery. Maybe those warm EPS maps he posts when he's excited for the first heatwave of Spring lack some necessary room reading, but I doubt he's attaching much emotional baggage or putting any ill intention into what he says.

So we have to get into philosophy because Mark wants to go on some ignorant hiking or whatever? His comment was in bad taste, at the very worst. Just a moment ago you yourself were rattling on about how the rich are forwarding their responsibility for global warming onto the common man in the form of things like recycling shaming and carbon footprints (hard agree btw.) You can not deflect responsibility for global warming while simultaneously holding Mark accountable for his warm weather preferences. He can not lack culpability and be blamed at the same time. Unless Mark is part of...THE ELITE.....

When Mark was wishing for some snow-free hiking, I doubt he was rubbing his palms together daydreaming about sawing down half the Santiam old growth. Nor was he thinking about all the ways in which a well timed heatwave during his summer vacation would melt away the remnants of the White River Glacier.

What do you mean by 'character building'? Too boring?

This is gorgeous but I hate the snow hole over my house. Still like half a foot but still!!

Feeling the east winds here in Lake City... Pretty rare.

The drive to work today was kind of fun... My route summits both Maple Leaf and Queen Anne, so I sample the better part of 400' of elevation. The top of Queen Anne was mixing with distinct snowflakes, with some leftover white from the burst of snow last night. Dropping down to sea level in interbay there weren't even any postitive splats, and the ground was bare. Kinda cool.

My quick hot take: some exaggeration and skipping over details is fine in the right context. I got into the weather by looking at big, dramatic storms and colorful maps. The background knowledge came secondary. Some shock and awe is just the humanity coming out... Think about the audience. Is this NatGeo at 10:30pm or an AMS conference with PhD guest speakers? The kind of misinfo I really can't stand is political nonsense, particularly in the context of climate change, i.e.; "It's all made up," or "We'll all be dead by 2050." Bad CGI and shotty facts on atmospheric rivers aren't so bad, if it all makes for a fun program. On a kind of related note I hate the movie Twister, not because the meteorology is unrealistic, but because the people are. They're so petty and egotistical about the whole thing. In reality we're all a bunch or goobers, storm chasers or not, staring at the sky in awe.

idk i was happy with what i got, a trace around 3am. not too bad.

Got some slush here as well. Still a rain/snow mix.

Radar looks wonderful. Wonder how much of those heavy returns north of DT are due to brightbanding, and a lot of that over the eastside is failing to reach the ground.

Moderate snow!!

KSEA reporting light snow.

Precip rates are increasing here and the T/Td have both dropped a couple degrees to 34/33. Looks like it's happening, to some extent!

Most of what you're seeing on radar east of the Puget Sound is evaporating before it reaches the ground.

Radar looks great. If this continues wet bulbing will put us in business.

Low DP's will counteract the daytime heating, assuming we get enough evaporative cooling. It's really going to come down to precip rates above all else. Timing is nearly perfect actually. A lot of what is being picked up on radar is actually virga. Not enough precip would mean light mix. If we get more than forecast, snow. Fun nowcast in progress!

California seems to have finally entered it's long promised deluge.

There's definitely an element to that. But even living a basic life is now much more expensive than it used to be. Everything costs so much more and everything feels so much more complicated. More splintering of systems and of society at large... My atypical brain would have hardly been able to handle the world of fifty years ago, let alone now. Though I still have the weather, the arts, the universe at large to behold. Life can't be that bad.

It's pretty bad out there for folks like me. Just have to save money like never before. Having any fun at all is what got me into debt. Our current generation has no choice but to sacrifice our twenties to live a comfortable life. It sucks but I've accepted it. Hopefully by my 30th birthday I'll have a degree and be financially stable, but it'll mean brutal work and missed fun. Not everything can be perfect

*king

The situation looks pretty bleak for those east of the Kitsap peninsula, but it's entirely contingent on precipitation rates. If the 12z NAM verifies Seattle could pile on an inch quick overnight Thursday into the morning.

I make a three paragraph post about how locked in the baroclinic setup is. Next morning the models completely switch to shredding the boundary and bringing in split flow

This is incredible, actually

BTW I still remember all the compliments like ten of you spontaneously gave me on a random day in April 2022. Completely unprompted and so sweet. Y'all probably don't remember but I'll never forget