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
weather.us has cloud output for multiple levels of the atmosphere -- low, mid, high cloud cover. May be useful as the time draws closer. Having some high clouds would be a different ballgame compared to something like stratus.
Just gotta laugh at this. It's like someone or something is saying "how can we try to screw over as many people as possible"
Optimist in me says that maybe it's good that we are getting these kinds of model runs now. Get the horrid runs out of the way now?
I'm sorry to hear that, I am also fighting a losing battle over a prescription right now, and while its not for something as critical as seizures, I still need my medication to function. The crappy thing is that they approved it last year, but they switched pharmacy managers and now the new pharmacy manager won't approve it.
My daughter is on lamotrigene for her epilepsy (along with one or 2 other drugs) and the combined out of pocket if she didn't have insurance would be ~$2,000 per month. You can live in a really nice house in a good chunk of the country for that kind of money.
I hope you can get it figured out. From my own personal experience, there should be a way to fast track the reviews/approvals. For my insurance company, it was for the doctor to mark the request as "urgent" Unfortunately, for me it just meant them telling me "NO" that much quicker.
My prescription is $5k per year out of pocket, not something I can really afford to do.
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