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
I ended up with 1.45" of rain today. Happened to be in a narrow training band of rain for awhile, but parts of southern Iowa got more with several inches. May get a tiny bit more soon with the cool front about to move through. Another beautiful rain.
I'm not saying anything unreasonable or wrong. It's been drier than usual up until recently and I'm starting to notice the benefits of that recent rainfall now that it's sunnier again. Very straightforward.
Once again, and I see some others have also called you out on this today, I refer back to what I said yesterday, about how you're calmly nestled far, far away in a forested chateau a thousand feet high in the Cascade wilderness, regularly rinsed by nearly one-hundo inches of juicy sky water every trip 'round the sun. We city peasants aren't so fortunate, down in our scorched concrete wasteland, where frail blades of grass struggle to sneak their brown, lanky bodies through cracks in the cement, gently dancing in the breeze on a somewhat cool hundred degree May evening.
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