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
Hope I am wrong but it’s hard for me to see how the incoming system is going to drop an inch plus of rain in Seattle. Definitely different than our typical Pineapple Express setup.
At least 2 tornadoes last night on the west side of the KC metro. They will be evaluating damage on the Missouri side tomorrow. They formed on a squall line, we've had that happen several times this spring.
Just keep adding infinitely more GHG's until you get to something like Venus. Eventually gravity will compress our atmosphere enough... Though I don't think we have enough gasses dissolved on Earth to do so.
Eh, just par for the course these days. The heat the last few years globally has been staggering and we will all just have to continue acclimating to the new normal.
Remember the heat dome last summer on the Gulf Coast? Baton Rouge seeing an average monthly high in the triple digits last August? With the Atlantic already at midsummer temp levels, just going to be more of the same this year.
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