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
Yesterday was another very summer like day with the official H/L of 84/58 there was no rainfall the sun was out 47% of the time. The highest wind gust was 30 MPH out of the S. For today the average H/L is 72/51 the record high of 91 was set in 1925 the record low of 34 was set in 1917 that year also had the most rainfall of 1.10” it was a cold day as the high was only 42. Last year the H/L was 77/47.
It was a very warm overnight as most of the night was in the upper 70’s In fact it looks like the high for today will be 79 and that was reached at 2AM. The low and current temperature here in MBY is 72. It is now becoming mostly cloudy.
I mean we get plenty of annual cicadas every summer but they’re nearly impossible to catch. So can’t guarantee it.
And yeah it was ear splitting. Didn’t realize how loud it actually was until I went back inside after a prolonged walk and everyone’s voices sounded muffled as if I had earplugs in. Probably lost some hair cells as a result of that.
DFW is in the bullseye today.
Warnings are out for hail, high winds, and tornados.
Starting out cloudy, warm at 78* with a high of 88*.
Storms should start showing up after noon. May is often our worst month so everyone is looking up.
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