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
Lol. We get leaves a bit earlier than Tim
jokes. But seriously they are finally starting to leaf out as you can see. Much further along than last year. When I was in C Oregon last week it was clear the full leaf out has not yet arrived. Still looked pretty dormant, though fairly green.
Once again Nikki Haley outperforms expectations in a primary race, considering she's been out of the race for two whole months. She pulled 22% in Indiana tonight. On the flip side, Trump who is the de-facto nominee and Republican Party incumbent, was only able to capture 78% of the vote from his own party while he sat in court across from a pornstar who was detailing her alleged affair with him, including describing spanking him with a magazine. On the one hand, a sane, competent, not-soon-to-be-felon who could have won the election as a conservative and on the other hand Donald Trump.
I know I need to get over it but I just... The idiocy of the Republican Party/MAGA today astounds me. They'd rather go down with the ship kicking and screaming as it's lit ablaze instead of grabbing a life vest and getting into another boat. All in the name of supporting someone who doesn't give too shits about them and would take a helicopter off the boat in a second if it was available. So stupid.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-primary-elections/indiana-president-results
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