AstronomyEnjoyer

We both get destroyed in the current runs of both the ICON and the UKMET, if that gives you any confidence, lol.

Definitely agree there.

Does do a better job bringing the goods up to my neighborhood though.

It sucks that the clowns perform poorly in marginal situations. But a ton of posters are not in a marginal situation. Now, they might run into QPF problems, but for a lot of them, they can just take the 10:1 ratio and say close enough.

It would be awesome if the model outputs alone were enough for people to figure how much snow they're getting, but as we all know, the model outputs are far from perfect. The problem is that these models run so frequently (and there are so many) that it would be impossible for Pivotal or Tropical Tidbits or whoever have an analyst run through and make corrections for every run, every hour, every day. And so sometimes, often times, you get funky numbers generated that just make no sense and should have no business appearing proudly on their generated product. But they do. I like the clown maps not necessarily because I think they are going to give me an accurate snowfall total, but they do offer a tangible, visual aid that allows me to deduce trends from run to run. Better so than someone just stating that it came north or the low was deeper, or oh, looks great for so-and-so's house, etc. And I mean, I could probably just use QPF maps to do that, but those just aren't as fun, and this is a hobby to me. Just my two cents.

While I understand your point about the ultimate product being proprietary to a specific vendor, I think you're being too pedantic about the definition of data. As an example --- When I was a F-35 flight test engineer, Lockheed Martin would send us 10 Hz data in csv files that we (as government engineers) would run through Matlab (and later Python) to get it in a suitable condition to then run through our own software designed to enable a human analyst to review and score certain aspects of the jet's performance. We'd then package that up into pretty charts and graphs to give back to LM and tell them to fix whatever we found wrong. We called that data. When presenting those charts and graphs to leadership, we referred to it as data. So yeah, I don't want to see raw data that's being pumped off whatever supercomputer is running the weather model - it would look nonsensical. But if a vendor is going to analyze that raw data using its own algorithms in order to package it into a digestible format for human eyes to view and understand, I'm going to call it data.

You have to appreciate the stubbornness. It's been nearly identical for like 6 runs in a row.

I know I've been joking about it the past couple days, but the ICON has been pretty rock solid and north. If the models end up converging on it we must give the Germans their due plaudits.

Reggie clown put some malicious dryslots in there, damn.

Here's the 3km for those that asked. Keep in mind that this is only run out to 60 hours and there's more juice to be squeezed.

You people are enablers, lol.

I'm doing this just for you.

Happy to see the NAM correcting its bad behavior.

Trees are glazing and snotting up here - luckily there's still a fair amount of drippage so it isn't accumulating very rapidly.

Literally starting now, which is why I think it's picked up the crack pipe.

Latest HRRR trying to get accumulating snow through pretty much all of Merrimack County. Not buying that.

Snow mixing in with the sleet here, still at 32.0.

I'm new here, do we have any posters in like the Woodford Dover Wilmington area? I don't think I've seen any yet.

Prismshine Productions, when you start posting maps right after I get chastised for it, it doesn't help the narrative that we're not the same person, haha!

Oh, and forgot mention, 0.50" total in the stratus since the start.

32.0 on the dot here, have transitioned to entirely sleet for the time being.

Sorry, used to do data analysis. I want all the data displayed, lol. I'll calm it down for you folks if that's preferred.

Kuchera less fun.

Enhance!