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51 again this morning in Great Falls. Smoke aside, a great run of weather this past week.

Beautiful morning for time trials. Good luck to all the swim dads (and moms)!

Come tomorrow, we will be down to #2 warmest (going by average temp), That may be why it was posted today.

Gorgeous day. Nice to see the blue sky again. 51 overnight in Great Falls.

Still getting smoked, just in a different way.

44.8 this morning in Great Falls. Perfect weather for late May.

Only 45 in Great Falls

Ugh. No thank you. 56 overnight in Great Falls. Definitely felt muggy this morning.

But I was told that we were going to turn into the Sahara by July….

I am concerned: if now we aren’t actually turning into Death Valley just because the year started out dry, what is the next doom and gloom overreaction that we need to latch onto? Only 15 years until the cicadas are back! Obligatory OBS: 39 overnight in Great Falls.

89 in Great Falls.

36 here with some scattered light frost in the colder spots.

Sorry if I am missing the obvious, but where is "Northern SERC"?

We are ~2 weeks past average last frost for the urban areas. Don't know the actual odds, but seems doubtful for a freeze. Average last frost in the N&W suburbs is ~April 18-25 (depending on how far N&W you go).

This inspired me to go back through my phone and look at some old photos. Trees in our yard seem to be about 7-10 days ahead of last year.

Low of 47.7 here.

49.8 overnight. Already feels like it’s going to be a warm one.

Certainly. But IAD went down to 30 on Sunday morning (and was at 30 for ~3 hours) in similar conditions except for the southerly breeze.

I think the best explanation for last night's IAD low is that they kept a decent southerly breeze until ~5am.

33.1 with light frost in Great Falls. A few degrees warmer than yesterday.

30.6 for the low in Great Falls. Happy Easter!

Maybe they were, maybe they weren't. This one video is not conclusive. It certainly is not enough to suggest a crime. We should wait to see what all the evidence shows before drawing any conclusions. The one conclusion we can draw is that -- at a minimum -- this was a terrible and likely avoidable tragedy.

Right, but there is no basis for the article's statement. I'm sure that investigators can figure out the speed of each vehicle, and it's entirely possible that they were speeding, but the article appears to be just drawing the conclusion from the fact that the two cars are going faster than the others. That alone, however, doesn't support the conclusion.

I don't think you can conclude that from the video because you don't see anything leading up to the crash. My best distillation of the video is that the gray car was merging into the left-most lane to pass the minivan. The white car was in its blindspot. Gray car driver kept merging (because they didn't see the white car) and clipped the front of the white car, causing the gray car to flip. Both cars may have been speeding, but can't tell that from the video (they are going faster than the other cars, but we don't know the speed of any car, etc.). Plus, speeding alone -- unless truly excessive -- can't support a vehicular manslaughter charge.

You don't get points for camera tickets anywhere, insofar as I am aware. It's done that way to avoid disputes over who was driving the car (which is almost impossible to prove for a camera ticket).