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
What a day! What a past 33 days!
Today 3.10" (ambient)
Since March 31st over 11 inches!
Since Dec 1st over 20 inches.
Pond now inches from overflowing, first time since late 2020!
Some minor flooding today first time in years! SW wapello county had a report of 6.5" just today!
Todays drought monitor still had mby in "abnormally dry" which will be gone next week. Its honestly as wet now as I have seen since maybe sept 2020. Looking at May forecast a 2010 deluge isnt out of the question. Snodgrass referred to 2010 as a analog year? Seeing so many unusual things not seen for years! Like my basement leaking!
Ended up with a 61/44 spread here. Overnight rain then partly to mostly sunny skies through early afternoon, followed by another band of showers from the NNE that brought moderate rain mid afternoon.
Clearing out nicely this evening though, with cool temps. 49 degrees currently.
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