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
Beautiful day up here in Bellingham, it did cloud up at one point and rain a little, but not even enough to get the pavement went. Started the yard project, hopefully I can get it done before the rains hit Friday afternoon.
My wife used to be a coordinator for an educational services company that would provide seminars for middle school aged kids. They targeted at risk kids, and the Navajo tribe was a big customer. The craziest though was the annual trip to a Native Amiercan school in the base of the Grand Canyon. Travel involved flying to a nearby airport, driving the the Grand Canyon, catching a helicopter down the the base of the canyon, then a donkey ride from the helipad to the school. She said that was always a fun one to set up.
Going to Shoshone geyser basin is one of the things on my Yellowstone bucket list.
Last time I was there (2016) was October, and it was still surprisingly busy for so late in the season. I do not think I would want to go there in the height of summer.
Coolish first day of May with partly to mostly cloudy skies. 58/42 spread here. There were some neat looking clouds around this evening as the next system began to move in.
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