Great read: CO state climatologist and Wx forecasting guru @russ-schumacher.bsky.social on how modeling and forecasts of big CO snowstorms have improved since the monster March '03 event. While the modeling has improved *a lot* in 20 years, the expertise of human forecasters is still critical.
Had some fun looking back at forecasts of the epic March 2003 Colorado snowstorm, and how things have changed since then. #cowx climate.colostate.edu/blog/index.p...
For those who were on Colorado’s Front Range in 2003, the epic snowstorm in mid-March likely still holds a place in your memory. This was the biggest snowstorm on record at Fort Collins, with 32.2″ of...
Great post! I can still remember reading those forecast discussions in 2003 as they built to a crescendo. I was also in the Fort for 2003. In 2004 I moved up near Rollinsville, very close to the epicenter of '03 (87"). In 10 years up there, max event was 48". Ongoing storm might well beat that.
Beyond their maddening recalcitrance w/ EVs, Toyota has made and sold an enormous number of "anti-Priuses": Large, inefficient, body-on-frame SUVs and pickup trucks. >8 million Tundras, Tacomas, Sequoias, 4Runners, FJ40s in US and Canada since 2005 www.goodcarbadcar.net/brands/toyot...
Yes, wonderful colors framing the wren! Once my spouse saw a wren in our front yard, perched on a large rock. She asked me if I knew what kind of wren it was. I didn't, so I got out the field guide. Of course, it was a Rock Wren.
Unfortunately their desktop app will only be available for Windows I'll see myself out now
The sign of an incorrigible water nerd: I immediately converted the lava effusion rate into both cubic feet/second and acre-feet/day. That's 3500-7000 cfs of lava or 7000-14,000 acre-feet of lava per day which would take 4.5 to 9 years to fill Lake Powell with lava
Being more curious than wise, I downloaded two docs from the consultancy partnering with Bloomberg that describe (poorly) the underlying data and methods. There was more than enough to make my head hurt, badly. Exemplified many of the flags raised in your paper and by Fiedler et al 2021.
Lovely little guy! Looks very much like a Bushtit, another tiny insect nabber.