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OceanStWx

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  • Birthday 09/24/1983

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    Portland, ME

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  1. Seriously though that is one of the big use cases the NWS is excited about anyway. The ability to run large ensembles quickly and frequently.
  2. Some would argue it's always been useless.
  3. Best thunderstorms of the year right now?
  4. When you end up well mixed, it also mixes out the big wind maxes aloft. Always seems to settle into that 45-55 mph range on the big westerly events.
  5. 44 is a big gust for IWI. That place is a wind pit.
  6. LOL 06z GFS spitting out 19 inches for Rumford. 18 inches in 12 hours.
  7. I'm ready. When I work overnights this time of year and sleep during the day, the closed door and sun beating on the roof can get my bedroom up into the 72-73 degree range. No thanks. I flip those heat pumps over to cooling.
  8. Clearly nobody paid attention to the blizzard warning anyway.
  9. I don't have a good answer for that. That's why I think it's probably more of a grid based issue. Like the software can get really angry when you are trying to isolate individual grid boxes that don't connect in some way.
  10. That's really a forecaster discretion kind of thing. I'm not aware of any policy that states all offices should use "showers" out there, but I know around here we generally try and focus on what will public perception be. Like if we're going to upslope and I have likely PoP, and there are always flakes in the air, the public is going to say it's snowing, not there are snow showers. So I'll change all wx at 55% PoP or greater to stratiform. It's possible the terrain out there is so unwieldly with the grids, that they do showers for ease.
  11. When this horizon becomes this reality
  12. As long as the glass stays full, it is a type of workout lifting a beer to my mouth. I can get on some good runs, but inevitably midnight shifts derail it. Then again shiftwork makes my life always kind of feel that way, starting over every 18 days.
  13. But it's impressive when you consider the siting for his thermometer!
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