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
The 12z EPS is Jesse’s spirit animal. Nonstop western troughing for the next 2+ weeks.
I expected there would be more variability in the pattern given the clean (albeit fast) MJO. Could still trend that way.
AnoTHer specTACular DAY here. SUNSHINE and upper 70s with Light WIND.
GOD IS SO wonderful and BLESSING US.
Our
LORD
and
SAVIOR
cares about South CAROLINA too.
My brother in Christ, Andrew, would love IT here. Blessed day TO all of you worried about IT not being cold and crappy ENOUGH in the pnw. I TELL stories of this forum whenever people from these CONFERENCES ask me ABOUT dealing with THE terrible WEATHER in SEATTLE. I say there ARE people who THINK it's not NEARLY dreary enough there.
And they talk very religiously and capitalize random WORDS.
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