Chinook

I have brought back my 500mb map/ 250mb map archives for general research purposes. I started off doing this a couple of years ago for tracking the jet stream during the El Nino winter a couple of years ago. https://great-lakes-salsite.web.app/Sep_2026_500mb_loop.html https://great-lakes-salsite.web.app/Sep_2026_250mb_loop.html

over 6" of rain for Amarillo, Dodge City, Manhattan Kansas, and Omaha. 3.98" measured at Santa Fe, NM.

powerful Hurricane Rachel yesterday at a strength of 105 knots

One thing will be a little bit different this winter. Mayjawintastawm's least favorite model, the No-Accumulation-Model, will be retired this week and will be replaced by some version of the RRFS (not sure if it's the RRFS we're already seeing on the model web sites, or something else.) The NAM had a pretty bad track record for the Front Range winter storms for a while now.

Four Corners low cold and snow. It is snowing in Colorado, but at over 11000ft at Wolf Creek Pass, so pretty high up there

blizzards hit Florida

Drips on the camera

This is a huge moisture plume for the central US

Hurricane Nolo is cranking!

I guess it is raining on the football game

storm name "Marco" is on this year's list for the Atlantic. It would have been a huge coincidence if Marco and Polo were named storms at the same time.

looking upwards to Long's earlier today

Recent passes of Hurricane Polo show flight-level winds around 150kt and pressure values of 909mb or a bit less. The TropicalTidbits satellite view now has a 914mb pressure shown. (not sure if this is the official value)

I got to give you props for pulling up this old satellite image!

This is like a once-in-a-lifetime view of Pacific systems