OceanStWx

Got some initiation off the backdoor and old outflows up here, cell near Denmark is going to be pushing 3" in one hour. About 3.25" is a 1000 year event for 60 minutes.

4 ply kind of day

Dinner wasn't the only thing marinating?

Humans definitely edit the grids over the top of things like the NBM, but it's increasingly becoming more dominated by NBM guidance as staffing gets worse and worse.

MVY

Congrats on the 49!

July morning of yore.

Not great, Bob. That's going to be my biggest loss with the NAM.

Clearing out some of the computing resources also potentially leads to more model runs. There are ways to get more data out of this.

It was like 2017ish. It was a bit of a Frankenstein "model". We really wanted some sort of probabilistic convective scale guidance, but it takes a lot of computing to run a large CAM ensemble. So somebody smarter than me decided to take what we already had running (ARW, HRRR, NSSL, etc) and turn them into a poor man's ensemble along with the 12 hour old versions of the same models. Pros: it provides some probability-like forecast parameters, it has a range of models/convective cores that can provide insight when biases are known. Cons: it is not a true ensemble, as you would prefer one core and the entire range of possibilities for that.

That's the theory of the case anyway. Instead of pouring resources into multiple models, we can focus all our energy on making the RRFS really good. Of course the FV3 core was really not great for convection and had to be scrapped. So now we're starting over with MPAS for a core. In an ideal world you would have the GFS/GEFS for longer range, RRFS/REFS for the inside 60 hours, and WoFS for storm scale, event driven cases.

I could have if I had been at work. As far as I know it is still 5 min. Temps are taken every min, and the high temp is the highest 5 min average. The only 2 min check I know on temps is to ensure they aren't more than 10 deg different on the 1 min obs (if they are it is set to missing). Winds are 2 min, so maybe that's the confusion.

I'm excited to marinate in the 90 degree garage tonight building a mud kitchen for the kids. At least I have fresh Tree House.