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
Got all the soil off the driveway, ended up giving a couple of yds to a friend. I got everything leveled, raked out, seeded, raked out again and rolled by about 4pm Saturday. Got the tools I rented cleaned up, loaded into the car and returned, and when I walked out of the rental shop, it was raining. Not much, just enough to wet the pavement, but the gods smiled on me for this project. The sunny warm days coming up later this week will be an added bonus.
Got .46" of rain Sunday, and did not have any standing water in the back yard (.3" is the magic number) and another .1" this morning.
One crappy thing that happened though is I went out to see how things looked after the rain, and I had mole tunnels running all over the place.
So now I guess I need to figure out how to convince them that they need to find someplace else to graze.
Sorry to go off the rails here. This will be the last graph for a while. But I find it interesting that the north peninsula has also been warmer than average in the same areas as the shifted shadow. Less rain/cloud cover leading to more sunny days I suppose. Sure seems like that typical shadow is moving.
Am I to assume this also "leans warm"?
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