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Yikes, dual-pol sampling what looks like 2+ inch hail around 21,000 ft to our west. MRMS coming around to that idea with 1.8 or 1.9 estimated. This may actually hit the office.

Big velocities embedded in there.

Strip the remaining grass off the hill, and it will be just another bald outcrop.

That MA storm looks nice from our radar. 49 dBZ to 49,000 ft. That's worthy of the Plains.

Between 5 and 7 it seems.

Like you said, if you can see the downburst happening with the naked eye, it's moving pretty quickly.

And his power is out.

Damn Gene, that looks pretty legit.

Gene, are you able to capture that video and speed it up? Sure looks like a rain foot surging out ahead of the core, downbursty.

Looking purdy on the cam.

My high school girlfriend's birthday happened to be the date of the Pats Snow Bowl game (obviously didn't know what it would turn into at the time, but I digress). So I turned it into making her dinner at home so the game could be on. Gotta score some points and get what you want at the same time.

FYP and same.

I trust the machines. Seriously though, these have been pretty helpful at IDing time periods to watch for. Because of the random forecast creation of these probabilities, it's not like the SREF where large probabilities may be dominated by one variable (like CAPE). This is what it is using for inputs. "These include surface-based CAPE and CIN, 10-m winds (U10, V10, UV10); surface temperature and specific humidity (T2M, Q2M), precipitable water (PWAT), accumulated precipitation (APCP), wind shear from the surface to 850 and to 500 hPa (SHR850, SHR500), and mean sea level pressure (MSLP). For Day 1, three additional predictors are supplied: surface relative humidity (RH2M), lifting condensation level height above ground (ZLCL), and surface to 850 hPa storm relative helicity (SRH)"

http://schumacher.atmos.colostate.edu/hilla/csu_mlp/index.php

We drove up Haleakala for sunrise and then hiked down a bit into the crater. It was noticeable.

Maybe even the day before.

Nobody would prosecute you...

Many, many trees.

Nice surprise at work tonight.

Sometimes, especially when I play solo, I'll try a type of modified Stableford. Bogey is worth zero (so essentially setting my par at bogey golf), and under par is worth twice as much as over par takes away (par = 1, birdie = 2, double bogey = -1 , etc). Then I just try and accumulate as many points as possible. Takes my mind off the total strokes number.

Found out through our gear box issue that some of the parts were original to the radar install! 1993!

Looks like an old air strip next to the Freedom town forest.

I saw Yellowstone went to ALPS (alternating license plate system) for park entry this season, mostly due to flood recovery I think. So you can only get in the park on even days if your plate's last digit is even, and vice versa. Glad that wasn't in effect when we visited.