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
Yeah, we had to go in from the east mesa trailhead. Pretty long walk from the parking lot but so worth it. We drove back through the Mt.Carmel Highway and saw some Bighorn sheep along the way. One more day here tomorrow then we’re heading to Bryce Canyon.
He downvoted my picture yesterday of the dogs as well…He must hate moms, sun, and dogs! Or he has become very nervous that we had a couple of nice days after a great shot of rain and cold beforehand!
And now it has cleared out more than forecast and we'll be able to land in these conditions and begin our Denali climb. Hope all of you guys have great weather in the PNW for the next few weeks, I'll probably be back to civilization in 2-3 weeks so until then, no model riding! Root for good weather here please, which would be sunny days and a lack of wind!
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