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
Both March and April were warmer and drier than average at PDX and VUO, the latter of which seems to have a lot less in the way of UHI issues. And May is obviously tbd since we’re not even halfway through the month yet.
But even going off of your recent cherry picked station of choice, I wouldn’t say there’s a lot to “pay for” this summer. Which doesn’t matter anyway since odds are overwhelming that we’ll have another hott one regardless. Any more rain or cool weather we can scrape together before the hellfire sets in is a blessing.
Downtown Portland temp anomalies so far.
March: 0.0
April: +.1
May: 0.0
Definitely on the dry side for the first half of spring, but thanks to the very wet start, most places in NW OR/SW WA are running close to double normal May precip to this point. And promise in the pattern ahead.
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