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
Weather summary
for British Columbia
issued by Environment Canada
at 4:16 a.m. PDT Sunday 12 May 2024.
Discussion.
The following areas set or tied a daily maximum temperature record
on May 11, 2024 (temperature values given in degrees Celsius):
KELOWNA AREA (Kelowna UBCO)
Tied record of 31.1 set in 1993
Records in this area have been kept since 1899
NELSON AREA (Nelson CS)
New record of 30.1
Old record of 30.0 set in 1949
Records in this area have been kept since 1904
PEMBERTON AREA (Pemberton Airport CS)
New record of 30.8
Old record of 29.5 set in 1980
Records in this area have been kept since 1908
PENTICTON AREA (Penticton A)
New record of 31.6
Old record of 30.6 set in 2019
Records in this area have been kept since 1907
Our flight from Talkeetna to land on the Kahiltna glacier to start our Denali climb this morning has been delayed until Tuesday due to snowy/cloudy conditions, guess we'll be stuck in this town for 2 days longer than planned.
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