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A bit OT, but the Maritime school I work for will likely be providing the required training for workers on offshore SMR platforms. Deploying Small Modular Reactors on floating barges allows operating companies to bypass land-use zoning restrictions and nuclear bans put in place by some states, but their position on off-shore floating platforms means all workers and vessel operations must comply with USCG requirements, and we provide training to meet those requirements.

Offshore SMRs on barges to power data centers. Waste heat rejection. We so smart.

I never pay attention to surface temp anomalies on a smoothed seasonal model. Just not realistic that a low res/LR tool can resolve something that localized. I only look at h5 to get a general idea of the big picture advertised pattern. Latter half of winter looks potentially decent as modeled. KU coming.

I'm hesitant but I think I'll go with the Vikings. Miami is so bad and they lost their best player for the season.

Who should I go with for my survivor pool pick this week? Ravens or Vikings? Both heavy favorites at home against 'bad' teams but its never that simple. Vikings have been winning despite a crappy offense, and Raven's OL is a debacle now with all the injuries, and their D still cant get off the field a lot of the time, giving up long drives that end in scores. Seattle is another option, but the Chargers are 0-3 and are desperate/due to win given they do have some actual talent.

'We just cant know yet'. Good rehearsal for winter storm tracking, even if its mostly rain.

This one probably isn't for us. It looked that way last night when I made a couple posts about it. Not much change 24 hours later. I'm not mad about it at all, but there will probably be enough moisture to be annoying here. I'll take the clouds but give me a dry weekend.

Look upstairs. See my previous post. Not into what model caves to another or whatever, but there is definitely a legit fail mode for our region... Fail if you want rain ofc.

Not hating it if we miss the rain this weekend. Maybe selfishly because my yard just had an inch+, but didn't get much over here when places west were getting soaked the previous event. All evens out. I prefer a nice, rainless weekend to enjoy outside stuff- like stacking firewood that's been piled up for a month.

Sure looks that way.

The Natty Blend suggests most of our area might not be the target for significant rain- with the frontal passage itself as well as low pressure that may form on the slowed/stalled front to our south. Close though and subject to change based on the suite of model inputs it uses.

Pretty big differences wrt the interaction between the northern and southern h5 vorticity on the Euro compared to GFS, thus quite different outcomes at the surface. Ofc this will vary from run-to run on the ops at this range.

Good read https://www.si.com/nfl/ravens/onsi/lamar-and-zay-and-loop-lead-a-wild-win-4-critical-takeaways-as-ravens-escape-brazil-01m3jqsaj052

Maybe there is..

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