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
Wunderground has been showing several days in a row of t'storm chances here starting this weekend, but yeah it doesn't appear to bring any major severe potential.
First day of May, and not joking this is our first fog in like 2+ months. It's been strangely absent this year.
57 right now after a low of 54. Fog is not as thick now as it was an hour ago.
I was thinking you might have reverse SAD but then remembered you also get down when its gloomy for long periods in November and December.
It seems like this April would have been to your liking... drier than normal, colder than normal, and with a decent amount of sunshine.
You will see how it plays out when it warms up next week while still being significantly drier than normal. I am sure those trees will fill out quickly regardless of rainfall. Side note... our yard is completely sun exposed with no shade.
Spring of 2022 was also telling. The trees here started leafing out in early April and then just slowed to a crawl all the way through May and never did totally finish. I have never seen anything like it. I think our big leaf maples ended up around 75% of normal leaf size that summer and they never looked right. Lack of rain certainly was not the issue in April and May 2022. It was very wet. The problem was the unusual cold without the typical warm periods that happen in those months even when its colder than normal overall.
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