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I'll say, there is really good lift in the snow growth zone around midnight Wednesday night. But the DGZ is also at like 500 mb. That always gives me pause.

I guess we had to call our plow contract in too. Mid shift ended up parking on the side of the road.

A lot of pros could stand to use that mindset too. Post analysis of events you fumbled are way more useful than anything else you pick up along the way.

Very suck. Much bad here. I’ve got as much as 0.33” radial and shotgun blasts are going off all through the neighborhood. Caught a nice transformer flash while I was out measuring. Really confirms that 0.75” ASOS measured flat ice is the right number around here for an ice storm warning.

Got the kids down just in time for the power and internet to go out. Genny’s running but can’t watch a damn thing.

Between snow and sleet I’m at 6.1” today (0.5” pure sleet), and up to 0.2” radial ice now. Power has flickered four times now.

This is the correct interpretation. 10% of the time snowfall will be greater than the number shown, or conversely a 90% chance that snowfall will be 29" or less. Ideally, 80% of the time your snowfall should fall between the high number and low number.

We're a unique site. Our inflation building was heated, but not to the safety standards you need when generating hydrogen. You probably could see the mushroom cloud from KLEW.

We don't? News to me. We ran out of helium a couple of weeks ago, but we launching again now. Pretty soon we'll be able to turn the hydrogen generator back on too.

Less of a squall now and more of an inverted trof as the coastal starts to take over. Just going to chuck up the advisories.

Pit2 FTW

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.

Some would argue it's always been useless.

No lies detected.

Best thunderstorms of the year right now?

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.

44 is a big gust for IWI. That place is a wind pit.

LOL 06z GFS spitting out 19 inches for Rumford. 18 inches in 12 hours.

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.

Clearly nobody paid attention to the blizzard warning anyway.

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.

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.

When this horizon becomes this reality