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
New car day. I have broken down and bought a new SUV with all of the new gadgets on it. We will be picking it up later today. I will get some how to programing at the dealership but will still need to “program” it over the next few days. It is my 1st car with a lot of the new technology on it.
The official H/L yesterday at Grand Rapids was 70/53 there was 0.21” of rainfall. It was yet another windy day with a average wind speed of 10.5 MPH and a peak gust of 35 MPH out of the SW. The sun was out 21% of the time. For today the average H/L is 64/43 the record high of 87 was set in 1894 and 1942. The record low of 26 was set in 1971 and 2008. The wettest and most snow fall was in 1963 with 1.85” that fell as 3.6” of snow. Last year the H/L was 50/39.
Here in MBY I recorded 0.51” of rainfall yesterday and the overnight low here was 45. At the current time it Is clear and 50.
Ruang’s eruption will add to the eruption of that big sea mount in the southern Pacific several months ago. The ash reached the stratosphere and scientists believed then it would affect our next few years.
Now Ruang. You guys know better than me, but it looks like some cooling is in store for a few years.
Now this map looks like your "typical" Heartland Spring Severe Wx map. How many times have we seen this map shifter farther east? I recall, so many years where the Plains have been left out. Certainly has that "share the wealth" look to it if your a fan of severe wx. Heck, I have seen and witnessed thunder, lightning and hail out here in the Valley of the Sun this Spring! lesssgo!
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