AstronomyEnjoyer

If you like burning through money you should get into astronomy. Then you can get excited about clear nights with no notable weather as well. See, I'm playing both sides so that I always come out on top.

Canadian is a solid hit for SNE as well.

There's going to be a lot of digital snow in SNE on the 12z GFS.

Hey now, I only posted that because Tip had mentioned heat burst signaling just prior. And I'm not throwing him under the bus, it's more of a gentle shove, ha!

I remember posting a 300 hundred something hour OP run that had a torch today when folks were getting hyped for the warmth. *Edit* here

Hmm, why that name in Par Ticular?

Not big into fishing myself, but I've heard the reservoir in Wilmington has some good fishing? I think they stock it with different species of trout, and most decently sized bodies of water around here will have large and smallmouth bass.

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.