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
Looks like a big supercell blew up in n. KS as well as things begin to ramp up.
Yesterday was warm and breezy with a high of 88⁰. Many towns hit 90⁰. And it's in the 80⁰s again today even after a cool front passed through last evening.
For rainfall, I like what the latest RAP is showing as well as the 18Z HRRR and a few other cams. But many others don't look great as of now, but I have a feeling we'll get at least one good round of storms.
I never posted my rainfall amount, but from the most recent event on Monday and Tuesday of last week I got 0.76", bringing my May total to just over 3". That's actually near normal as of now. I'm also finally just out of the drought area as of last Thursday's drought monitor update! It's been at least 1 year since we're drought free. But it's not overly wet currently and could use more rain.
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