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
I haven't understood why the western world has taken the Hamas-run Health Ministry reported number of deaths as gospel. All these people going "omg 30,000 women and children have died, Israel bad" without mentioning that those numbers are provided by the very group that Israel is fighting, as if they don't have a vested interest in making those deaths appear as large as possible. It seems like a pretty easy point to make yet it always gets overlooked by the groups that want to make Israel appear inhumane.
To be certain, I'm not saying Israel's response has or has not been disproportionate or that a large number of deaths are women and children. I'm just saying maybe just maybe we don't take Hamas's word for it.
Sorry, I must've forgotten to add on my last rainfall and was nearly at 4" for May. I picked up another half inch since midnight bringing my May total to around 4.33" now. I was somewhat disappointed how the southern and heaviest part of a line of storms was heading right at me after 12:00a.m, but suddenly gusted and crapped out just before it got here, and shifted just north. Radar estimates show up to 2"+ not very far west of here. Late yesterday afternoon a small potent line also died as it was about to move in. Got a decent lightning shot from that at least. A few models did well in showing my area near the south end.
Mother Nature is going to continue roaring with rumbles of thunder across the majority of the Heartland...it'll stay pretty busy for a lot of you guys...
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