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
Sadly, I never was aware of his brilliance until after he had passed. Some of his routines are spot-on. As in the Middle Ages when fools were the only ones with the privilege to disrespect the monarch, comics today can get away with saying certain truths that would otherwise get one socially sanctioned.
Amazing last couple of days at Mount Rainier, yesterday had off and on clouds, and today was clear in the morning and has gotten cloudy as the day hass progressed, but it's still okay out. Started at paradise yesterday and climbed to 10k feet to camp for the night, and got up 3 hours before sunrise today to get sunrise at the summit, then we decended to emmons glacier to freshen up our crevasse rescue skills ahead of our Denali trip, and then climbed back up for some views and ski'd down. Staying in the area for a couple of days so that on Saturday-Sunday we can do some more training in whiteout conditions on rainier.
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