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
.70 in the bucket so far today, which brings our 3-day total to just over 1 inch and monthly total up to 2.65 inches. Rain has subsided for now, with mainly gusty winds in place. We'll have to see if the western flank of the low that is currently over central Nebraska can hit my area as it moves to the NE later today, or if it remains over NW Iowa as some models indicate.
I would be good with this. At my soccer game last week, someone commented that the fields felt like it was July.
If we have another summer like last summer in terms of how dry it got (and how hard the fields got) I will probably hang up my cleats. I'm not going to risk another knee injury.
So far this morning, .09" in the rain bucket, and it feels like early spring or late fall out there with a temp of 48. Normally I might gripe about it, but I'll take it as dry as it has been.
We have the Ski to Sea race this Sunday up here in Bellingham, and hopefully we get some decent weather for it. It's my first time participating in about 12 years.
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