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
Yes. Try switching browsers.
Yesterday I couldn't get NWS local climate data to load on Firefox. It just kept going to the national map. Switching to Safari fixed it.
Today, I can't get local observation data on Safari, but they load fine on Firefox (climate data is back on Firefox too).
Oh, and my Davis WeatherLink Live device stopped transmitting at 12:45 this morning, and nothing I've tried can get it working again. Coincidence???
May 20 high: 68 F
2024 average high for Downtown LA as of May 20: 70.60 F
Average high for May 21-31 2024 required to tie last May: 68.27 F
Note: KCQT was moved so this could be messed up.
Volcanoes are tricky... they have been the cause of cold periods and also responsible for inundating the atmosphere with CO2 and leading to some of the warmest periods in Earth's history. I read that one volcano is Iceland which is dormant is putting out massive amounts of CO2 currently and they had no idea until they deployed drones over the area with sensors.
It appears the Earth might be entering a period of high volcanic activity. Two recent eruptions in Indonesia, the ongoing eruptions in Iceland, and now ominous warning signs from Campi Flegrei in Italy. The latter has experienced over a thousand shallow earthquakes in the past month and ground deformation of 2cm per month. Definitely something to watch.
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