AstronomyEnjoyer

Down to 15.1° this morning. First pic of March!

00z GFS

I'd go skiing at Mammoth, but never lucked out and was there when it was really cranking. You could obviously see the results though.

I used to live in Tehachapi, CA at a little over 4000ft and whenever the southern Sierras were getting smoked I might manage half an inch of rain and 2 inches of slop if I was lucky. Hell yeah, I'd sign up for the real thing any day.

Haha, for your friend.

Some photos I took out back this afternoon to close out February. Need to work out a way to measure the height of that White Pine in the last photo. Hard to tell from the picture, but I've measured it at 42" in diameter at breast height, so its pretty large for a single stem pine growing in a forest.

Ah, boo, don't be a spoil-sport, haha. I would absolutely gawk at the intense heat and pressure if I ever went to Venus.

From Pivotal's website. Explains why the GFS and other NCEP models can wonk out the clown maps. (It's not the model, it's the clown maps). ECMWF, UKMET, and Environment Canada models keep track of precipitation type in a precise way as the model integrates, so we know how exactly much precipitation falls in the form of snow (at least, based on the model’s internal diagnostics). This eliminates any concern about including sleet, graupel, or rain when we compute snowfall for those models. For NCEP models, the bookkeeping for precipitation types is less precise, so mis-categorizing some of the precipitation that fell between data output times is always a risk during mixed precipitation or precipitation that is rapidly changing type. We have adopted an approach that usually avoids erroneously treating sleet as snow for NCEP models, so you should not see a shield of "fake snow" extending well equatorward of the actual snow-sleet line in a large mid-latitude cyclone, for example. Still, it is inevitable that we will sometimes overestimate the fraction of mixed precipitation falling as snow in borderline and transitional environments (usually small in area).

Just what's listed out is 148-188", good lord.

Soda Springs, CA. Add up dem totals, lol.

Pivotal was fighting for its life trying to determine precip type on this one. Maxing out the color scale too.

Quite the frankenstorm brewing on the 18z GFS.

Just took a walk through the woods - didn't find any real new damage other than smaller sticks and branches strewn about. Most notably, the pinecone crop has increased. The foundation which currently lacks a building will need to be cleared of them. And - I guess I won't have an excuse (weather) to avoid actually building the thing much longer...

What's your elevation there?

There's still some snow up around these parts. Taken 30 minutes ago.

That's my brain all the time. Single cell, and completely fried.

While I'm in a clowning around kind of mood, here's the earlier system on the 12z GFS. OP Canadian and ICON have this too, but warmer.

12z GFS. Gonna post a clown here to help draw some ire.

Low of 18.5° this morning. 0.32" in the Stratus for the storm total. No snow accumulation whatsoever. Power must have flashed or gone out briefly while I was sleeping as clocks reset about 4 and a half hours ago. Wind never seemed to get too bad but I'm pretty sheltered where I'm at. I only counted maybe one or two gusts that got the house to creak a little.

If nothing else I have some confirmation that my thermometer either takes a bit to report true temp, or is straight-up out of calibration. Frozen water on the deck handrails, but my thermometer reads 33.2° right now. Light snow.

35.9°, flipped to snow here. 0.30" in the Stratus since last night.

Damn, just heard a bug smasher flying overhead. Wouldn't catch me in one of those, in this weather, in the dark. Hope that pilot has a lot of IFR hours.

Wind has shifted here. A steady dull roar overhead.

It really is nice, especially when you get it the warmer months. I took a video while I was down there - nothing special just panning the camera. Here's an unlisted Youtube link.

49.8° with 0.14" total. Wind and rain have just picked back up.