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 starting point and end point always matter with these trend things.
Parts of the East were miserable for snowfall in the late 1940s to late 1950s. And those same areas did really well in the 2002-2015 period. So if you made a trend from 1950 to 2010, it would look way better for much of the East.
Back in the early 90’s I was at my grandparents house (they owned and lived what is now the family lake house) and EVERYTHING would stop between 7 and 7:30 for my grandma. She would scurry to her bedroom and turn on the tv. Everyone knew NOT to say a word or bug Grandma during Wheel Of Fortune!!!
Anyway…Back to that night…A basketball game preempted WOF…She got on the phone and tried calling ABC but got nowhere so she tried calling White House because it was George Bush Senior that caused it and she was going to tell him off…She was not going to give up, either. She was MAD! I mean she would always hit the 3-Star vodka at about 3pm so she was juiced up by 7pm
My Grandpa was in the living room…Watching the Basketball game…
I miss them.
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