Chinook

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

The jet stream has broken down in to some strange patterns today, with a north flow over the Great Lakes, south flow over the Rocky Mountains, blocking high over Quebec

I guess these temps were like mid-July

Polo

Marco

I'll trade you 2" of rain for a low dew point. I've got extra. I just want a dew point of like 30 or something, really.

The NAM was not that accurate with a lot of precipitation for a long time. But you gotta love the severe weather soundings when it said 3000 J/kg when the GFS said 1500 J/kg.

On October 6, say goodbye to the NAM, HREF, and SREF, and say hello (?) to some or all of these things replaced with RRFS/ensemble RRFS. I don't know what that's going to look like and I don't know how various web sites will deal the new data feed. I would imagine that the SREF was not really preferred for various reasons. However, it is definitely going to feel strange going to the Pivotalweather or College of Dupage web sites, and not see the NAM, at all, ever.

a tornado went over a mountaintop at Kaysville, Utah today

Fort Collins has had 2.78" (roughly 2.50" on CoCoRAHS) vs an average of 3.05" in 60 days

Today seems to be one of the bigger monsoon (southwesterly) rainstorms for Arizona, associated with the trough on the West Coast.

things are so hot in the central USA that it's never cool. My place keeps getting 70 dew points. Go away. We want weather that's cooler. Less sweaty. The +6 degrees F in Amarillo Texas might be like the warmest 90 days ever.

The dew points are now 70 at Toledo, but recently as low as 51 degrees. The 50's dew points are average for this time of year.

a little cloud iridescence or sun dog

Did it feel more humid than normal? It was. The precipitable water was above normal for the last month. On the boundary of the more humid and hotter air, there was plenty of rain

New video about Plainfield's F5 tornado

One time I went with a group to do Democrat-Cameron-Lincoln-Bross. It's pretty unique in the sense that you can hit 4 (or 3) 14ers in a pretty class-1 hike that's not insanely long. The only question: Is Mt. Cameron its own peak?

I wonder if that Amazon Prime jet was able to be unloaded and have the packages get to their destinations, eventually. (maybe they're still unloading and dealing with the cargo.)

Personally I've hiked some of the easy 14ers, mainly easy ones, plus 12000-13000 were really nice a number of times. I hiked Long's twice, which is not easy, and it was not really that easy on me the 2nd time. For some reason I joined with my hiking group to do the Kelso ridge on Torrey's Peak, and that involved scooting on the "knife edge." So, Torrey's could have been a lot easier, but I decided to risk my life, kind of like Long's Peak. Silly me. I hiked Mt. Richthofen at RMNP from the Agnes Lake parking lot. That was a terrific view, and my friend and I had to fight against a little crumbly crap. The view was worth it. We were the only two people on the mountain. Not much of a developed trail. And I did that on a Labor Day some time in the past. I absolutely do not know how marmots stay alive at 14000 feet. There are no plants. Do they sort of just climb up there for fun? I do not know. Animals cannot eat rocks.