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
32 currently and it just started snowing 10~15 minutes ago! Hopefully there's some decent accumulation when I wake up, but I'm sure there won't be. Just a trace currently which is not sticking to concrete yet..
14 day looking fairly solid; some rain, some sun and basically climo-ish temps. Thunderstorms and hail yesterday were pretty sweet, maybe we can get a couple more in April.
Your post is amusing. We do live in a world where there are a lot of bad actors. Granted immediately jumping to the conclusion that it has to be a bad actor is out of hand, but I think it should always be at least a part of the discussion. Hopefully, 9.9 times out of 10 it is a 30 second to 2 minute discussion (literally) and then the subject is put to bed and investigators move on.
We of course know that terrorism is very real. Cyber attacks are also very real.
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/attack-colonial-pipeline-what-weve-learned-what-weve-done-over-past-two-years
https://www.aha.org/news/perspective/2024-02-29-supporting-hospitals-and-patients-after-cyberattack-change-healthcare
https://www.securityweek.com/canadas-rcmp-global-affairs-hit-by-cyberattacks/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-06/dutch-intelligence-blames-chinese-state-for-cyber-espionage-in-the-netherlands
Here is a fun little list for you (some of the ones above are in this list:
https://www.csis.org/programs/strategic-technologies-program/significant-cyber-incidents
I could not find anything of machinery or equipment being "hijacked" yet, but I have no doubt they are trying to figure it out.
Did you know that this is happening?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerdooley/2024/03/12/your-driving-data-may-be-sold-to-insurers-general-motors-reveals/?sh=45c7451856ef
Some automakers already download software over wifi/cellular, and I believe Telsa is a major user of that functionality. I believe commercial aircraft can download their flight plans wirelessly.
With that being said, please tell me how there is no risk of modes of transportation potentially being corrupted by a bad actor.
And we've got our Elite Eight, also known as the Regional Finals.
East: 3 @ShawniganLake vs 1 @SilverFallsAndrew
West: 6 @Blizzard777 vs 4 @Front Ranger
South: 11 @FroYoBro vs 4 @MR.SNOWMIZER
Midwest: 2 @Tom vs 1 @snow_wizard
Only 2 number 1 seeds remain.
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