Really, really lovely cumulonimbus action tonight! I just happened to have my drone in the car and got some solid shots of DT Seattle/Lake Washington/Mercer Island/Bellevue looking north from Skyway. Alas, the focal length of the lens doesn't do the vertical height justice and my WB was off rendering it into semi-gross HDR territory, but still... fun looking weather! It was quite windy- I was flying right at 390 ft and the drone was giving me all sorts of warnings about sustained winds/gusts.
A most incredible snow storm. At times the snowfall rates have been as heavy or slightly heavier than January 2017. Temp 27.5, Dewpoint: 27.1 with gusty east wind and very heavy snow continuing. I'm at 11 1/2" now! UNBELIEVABLE!!!! This pic does no justice at all.
NBM is quite an interesting product! Their weighting algorithm is moderately complex and dynamic, though does has some drawbacks as we saw yesterday. For those who don't know, NBM is an attempt by NOAA to create a super probabilistic forecast model that ingests output from all the models above and outputs forecast guidance for local offices that help them to gauge the relative odds of particular weather outcomes. The 'special sauce' is the post-processing, normalization and weighting that they d
Give it a rest again. No one said anything about the entire spring. The last 2 weeks have been consistently cold and wet up here and people are looking forward to a change. That is all. Your constant crap makes me wish a soul crushing summer on you.
Give it a rest. SEA was south of the c-zone and bumped up briefly. The rest of King County was wet and cold and it did feel very much like November this afternoon with heavy rain and temps in the low 50s. I think most people around here would say it felt like November this afternoon. Didn't look like November but it felt like it. It was a valid point.
The limiting factor here has been a lack of rain, but also a lack of sun. Like I mentioned in the previous post, the CMC would be great here. That would get the grass into 2022 mode!
I genuinely think the Canadian is onto something, especially with the way ridges have trended in the middle and short range. Given that the upcoming ridge is nigh inevitable at this point, it's a solution that should please most everyone in the Puget Sound area, with an extended period of sunnier, seasonably warm weather, with marine layers in the morning and 70s and sun by noon. The July climo you've been craving.
Portland southward into the Willamette isn't so lucky... Ridge is right overhead and pushes temperatures into the 90s. Wish we could reduce the amplitude of the ridge.... Though I think the jet extension modeled over the next week is only possible with such a narrow, warm subtropical ridge.
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