Rhino16

Drive home from work was wet! Didn’t see what happened late afternoon to now, but I think the northern neck avoided the heavier stuff.

We're getting there... slowly... it at least appears better than last night's you posted.

Did it happen to be somewhat of a squall event type thing? I have images of a snow squall chase on the 21st of November, but that’s down on a mountaintop near Blacksburg, VA.

Not sure, I put in a request back in May, just waiting to hear back and provide whatever proof they need.

Basically, we can take a set of numbers and break them into quarters. Just like we do with the months in a year. Interquartile is the set of numbers between Q1 and Q3, the numbers in the middle of the dataset. So if the models are putting out numbers that are very spread out and uncertain like in your example, the Interquartile Range will be high. If the models are all putting out similar numbers, the difference between Q3 and Q1 will be low, so making a temperature forecast might be easier.

I can seemingly always count on the weather to do the opposite of what I expect! As the outflow blew through it was kicking up water over the river. It almost looked like there was a gustnado in the mist. It rained a decent amount, maybe half an inch, not sure it will be enough to save some of the leaves on the trees. Also had first thunder since end of July, so that was fun.

It’s sooo dry, we got 0.01-0.05 on Thursday, but before that it was august 19th since the last rainfall, and that was around a quarter. Today doesn’t seem too promising in the NNK.

Already 32.6 at Canaan NWR. Fast! It was 37.3 this time yesterday.

It’s already 40.6 at Canaan NWR. 50ish at surrounding mountaintops it seems.

If you haven’t decided yet, today looks okay for a clear night sky, at least according to the HRDPS which is apparently a decent model for cloud cover which I’ve heard in space weather groups. Satellite also seems good at the moment. Good luck stargazing.

Happy birthday!

Unidata has a series on their youtube channel where they show how to retrieve data, manipulate it, plot it, etc. It’s all in python though, but maybe it would help.

I just graduated from the VT Program, and am considering returning for masters in an adjacent topic. Your ideas seem to be the profs current thinking at the moment with respect to AI. I’ve heard from numerous people that the field is shifting towards a model where meteorologists will be interacting with the public much more, instead of sitting at the forecast desk all day, at least in the public sector.

Thanks! Ha, Thanks! I’ll be back tomorrow…

I’ve gotten older again. This time, I’ll get to go around the sun as a meteorologist. Let’s see what I’m doing this time next year…