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
Unfortunately, it appears the dry models are going to be correct for us this morning. An area of rain is trying to lift up into my area, but it is really drying out. You just can't expect any heavy rain when the freakin dewpoint is in the 30s. I'm tired of this crap. To get heavy rain, we need the dewpoint to be in the 60s and 70s.
Looks like it's gonna be a fun night.
Reed Timmer Extreme Meteorologist
The Dominator 3 has arrived in Kansas City, MO for #tornado intercept mode with @nelkboys
TORNADO POTENTIAL on Friday afternoon and evening maximizes first in eastern Nebraska into western Iowa ahead of the surface low. Short range models also show long track supercells from eastern Kansas into western Missouri, including near the Kansas City Metro. WATCH that dry line tomorrow. I wouldn’t be surprised if more of central and eastern Oklahoma could get storms.
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