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Phil

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  1. It’s an expensive, high quality ultrasonic unit. Had to contact a foreign vendor to modify it to work with Davis ISS. If it was a standard, cheap ass Davis unit I would’ve just ordered a replacement, my dude.
  2. Ha, August 2018 was the month I filmed a lightning bolt hitting my nextdoor neighbor’s tree. Or..kind of (was just off-screen to the left). We usually get 1 or 2 of these every summer but catching it on camera is another story. Seems 90% of the time I’m either not home or sleeping/busy. This is the one exception to-date. IMG_8378.TRIM.mov
  3. Finally fixed my anemometer. Was a 9hr job, fucked up the soldering twice and had to restart from the beginning both times. Amazing how the smallest amount of water ingress can cause such widespread damage.
  4. I guess it’s cloudy at Tim’s house, then.
  5. I had an anxiety attack sitting in class many years back. Most random thing ever, one minute I was fine, the next my heart is beating out of my chest, my extremities are numb, and I’m pouring sweat like Niagara Falls. For no reason at all. Has never happened before or since. Truly thought I was dying, but didn’t want to embarrass myself so I just laid my head down on the desk and accepted my fate. After a few minutes it stopped, thank god. But I was absolutely drenched in sweat, clothes soaked through. I’m sure everyone there thought I was a heroin addict in need of a fix.
  6. Yikes just saw this. Glad you’re up and kicking, man! Sending u healing vibes.
  7. I bet it’s coating the ducts throughout the house. Shone a flashlight up some of the vents and it’s all up in there. As if that weren’t enough, I discovered our AC is leaking refrigerant while investigating the above. Fuuuuck this is going to be expensive.
  8. Entire household has been coughing for a few months now so decided to look in the ductwork. Oh. My. Fooking. God. Yes, that is all mold. Underside of every vent in the house is smothered in it. Must be in the HVAC system. Can’t believe I’ve been breathing this shit in for god knows how long.
  9. Weak El Niño though it was IPWP/WPAC forcing that dominated through the winter. Unless ENSO is strong, peripheral/external forcings are equally if not more important. 2014/15 and 2019/20 had almost the same ONI, but very different winter patterns because tropical forcing/general circulation outside ENSO were so different.
  10. Yeah I think because of how cold/troughy that spring was, many assumed it would continue into summer given -ENSO. I thought it might. The large 4CH was well-predicted, though. Yet it still ended up overperforming even the most extreme projections, significantly influencing the weather in BC/PNW even into August. Same with 2021. Basically the entire western half of the lower-48 ended up roasting and burning both years. Good news is this year’s 4CH shouldn’t be nearly as bloated. But exactly how prominent it becomes will partially hinge on how quickly westerly shear descends in the tropical stratosphere (which cannot be determined just yet). So it’s a waiting game for now.
  11. In 2022 the euro seasonal projected a stout 4CH/death ridge centered over the intermountain west. Same with 2021. I think the difference in the models this year is because 2021 and 2022 had warm off-equator SSTAs (hence more convection in subtropics) while this year has (relatively) cool off-equator NPAC SSTAs, which constrains the ITCZ meridionally.
  12. Ozone has a distinct odor that I’ve only smelled after a barrage of close lightning strikes. Never smelled it ahead of a storm or even during most storms.
  13. I’d never heard that word until today. Is that what people mean when they say it “smells like rain”? I figured that fresh, earthy scent was just water in the air. But now that I think of it, I don’t usually smell it in the winter. But it’s always present in the summer.
  14. Yes, downsloping off the appalachians warms/dries/deepens the boundary layer. Combine that with CAA, pressure rises, and springtime solar heating, and we can occasionally transfer momentum straight down from 500mb in extreme cases (usually in April). Yesterday was actually run of the mill for a downslope day. This is the reason extreme cold rarely makes it east of the apps. Not only is the low level cold neutered by the terrain, but it’s f**king impossible to decouple at night. The winds will rage nonstop, even under clear skies. Best overnight lows happen when the cold airmass has begun departing. And it’s also the reason summer “cold fronts” (lol) usually either stall at the Allegheny Front or simply become dry fronts east of the terrain, only dropping dew points but not temperatures. Which is welcome, but meh.
  15. Does convective rain smell different than stratiform rain?
  16. Hyperbole can be therapeutic. It’s the number of blazes that’s most confusing to me. I didn’t see anything special about today’s conditions to trigger a dozen blazes within a 4hr window. Maybe infrastructure is just falling apart out there.
  17. It was basically the same. Particle counts reached 1100μg/m^3 in NYC and 650μg/m^3 here. Probably my least favorite weather event of all time.
  18. Hear hear. Some people act like we’re a different species or something, haha. I’ve loved the West every time I’ve visited, whether it be the PNW/BC, Utah, and even Arizona! All unique flavors in their own way.
  19. Wildfires are supposed to be a west coast/PNW problem. Why are they suddenly a thing here? This never used to happen. March is always dry and windy. Have never seen the entire Shenandoah Valley spontaneously combust like this. Breaks my damn heart.
  20. Last June looked like that here, the blood orange sky with the sun obscured. Hope I never experience it again. That wood/smoke smell got into the carpets and everything, took weeks to eliminate it. Apparently today there were 12 fires within 75 miles of here. All sparked by downed power lines in the mountains (downslope windstorm). Gusts up to 77mph were measured immediately downstream of the terrain. Didn’t get quite that windy here (maxed at 45-50mph) but there was enough smoke that it looked like rain on radar. Talk about a crazy deep boundary layer..temp reached 70°F despite vigorous CAA (850mb temps near 0°C). Dispersion was maxed out.
  21. I can smell wildfire smoke. Deja vu all over again.
  22. The bark doesn’t look yoshino. On trees that age/size, yoshino bark is smooth with slits of horizontal furrowing. I suspect it’s a yoshino cultivar/hybrid of some sort.
  23. Those are some healthy blooms! What species/cultivar? They don’t look like pure yoshinos.
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