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The weather the last couple days has been a miracle.

Outrageous amount of sun today.

Clouds like to hang around the Catoctin's on the tail end of systems as residual energy moves through, regardless of whether it's a dry front or not.

I want a refund on today's sunny forecast. Sunny to me means at least 80% sunshine, not 40% (and that's being generous). Probably more so a Frederick thing than for areas to the east.

Terrible start, legendary finish.

Yea, had some brief sun earlier, but it’s been cloudy ever since. Maybe we can reel in some clearing before sunset.

The important thing is that it’s completely overcast rn. Hopefully the sun returns tomorrow.

Looking forward to the return of sunshine. I think we snagged .05” here from 2 days of overcast. Next.

This storm is symbolic of the pattern the last few years. Is the Gulf of Mexico even capable of generating an impactful mid-Atlantic storm anymore?

I don't remember the Ravens starting 1-5. That's gotta be the surprise of the season so far.

ECMWF has the weather forecasting game on lock.

Beautiful dry breeze in Frederick. Just got a road bike sesh in…pavement is mostly dry as well. That drought monitor is gonna start looking colorful soon.

More than sprinkles rn though it’s a pretty isolated batch. Feels and looks like Fall out there.

The weather has been a miracle in Frederick so far today. Got a couple of hoops sessions in and some errands done in between. Much more sun than anticipated, though clouds seem to have increased a bit. Looks like this will be a pretty lame event out here with basically a NS kicker incoming...though the beaches will have fun.

Looks like we're mostly stuck between the NS vort and coastal...with a general lack of phasing.

I’m declaring today the start of Fall. Seeing some clearing to the nw, winds are picking up a bit, and leaves are starting to change colors. It’s that time.

This weather is a work of art.

The weather pattern has turned into a miracle since the spattering of midday clouds yesterday.

We're really good at that.

In a spiritual kinda way, I feel like hurricanes are acting proportional to how our pattern has been the last few years...downsloping, nw flow, ots...not all the time, but that seems like the base state, even more so than usual. We're due for a nor'easter pattern.

lol, literally taking a class rn on deep learning and neural nets (one more paper left on GANs). There’s a lot of free code out there to use. MNIST has been my dataset of choice…aka the “hello world” of neural networks. It’s fascinating stuff, but very computationally expensive. I have no idea what AIFS uses, but I imagine it’s not trivial.

Still kinda learning about AI, but after creating a few neural nets and slogging through understanding activation functions, gradient descent, loss functions, etc, it makes sense why these models (whatever architecture they’re using) could perform well on handling all the dimensions and chaos involved. It’s pure math and stats under the hood. The challenge will be dealing with the black box nature of deep learning algorithms, though I know explainable AI is becoming a thing. Computational cost is another topic as well.

Looks like some prime biking and hiking weather coming up. Every now and then I hit up Weverton for a quick hike.

Yuck.

The important thing is that it’s cloudy rn.