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
Jealous of you all getting rain. Thursday and Today we had almost nothing (.05 on Thur) a Trace today whereas Lewiston had some decent rain with ponding on some of the roads in usual spots. We drove out to Dworshak Reservoir for a hike. This is an Army Corps reservoir which is free to park at. It is near Orofino "The Home of the Maniacs!" Their high school is right next to Idaho's state mental institution. Mascot even looks like a patient and a photo is here: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/feb/04/idaho-house-panel-backs-orofino-maniacs-specialty-/
We decided to turn around about 0.75 or so as the clouds starting looking dark and the trail looked slippery. Still my son and I enjoyed a nice viewpoint of the reservoir on a hillside before turning back. Glad we did because it started raining shortly after we left. Flat Stanley is visiting us from a school in Texas' project. All the other houses are in Texas, OK, or NE so it's nice it got to see the NW and both WA and ID.
Another wet day! Love it! .80" this pm and still raining. Weekend total now 1.7" and incredibly now at 7 inches in April! And there hasnt been a extreme amount of run off or gully washers. Soaking in and saturated!
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