Chinook

lenticulars

remains of a once-bright burning bush

The West Coast low pressure area has already brought 1.25"-5.0" to San Francisco, 3.0" (3.0 feet?) to the Sierra Nevadas, and 0.3" to Los Angeles. There's much more to come for southern California and the desert. It's kicking the ridge in the middle of the country. Today, Fort Collins was back to 70-75, 75 in Denver, and over 80 in Kansas.

Fort Collins up to 75.1 I wish I could turn on the weather magnets and get you guys some rain and snow. My place in Ohio had more snow than Estes Park this week. It wasn't much.

looks like a miniature cyclone

another view

I was testing out some color palettes for Radarscope. This clear-air color palette makes it look super cool by South Bend

The changeover from rain to snow produced some heavier snowfall rates here in Toledo. I believe my place got over 2" before 10:00, and we still have snowflakes and 35 degrees.

Fort Collins was 81 in Nov. 2006 (The first year I was there) and 79 just the other day, and also 79 in Nov. 2016.

a bit of a side note on weather. Louisville airport reported smoke after the plane crash

This is a young tree in my neighborhood. I am wondering if it is an elm of some type, but I don't think it is. The leaves are small

with roughly 4.0" for Toledo (August to October) this puts the area near one of the worst three-month (August to October) drought periods (46% or normal rainfall)

the storm that hated Chicago

The UFOs got a little gray today

Guantanamo Bay American base had a wind gusts 61kt-75kt