Charlie Phillips

Nice! I’ll definitely look at it and share it with others, thanks Brie.

It’s crucial to have an emergency plan for when severe weather strikes. You might never need to use it, but it makes a huge difference when you are in a high-impact event. I remember losing power for many days during the Hannukkah Eve Storm – I wish I had an emergency kit then!

Here are the winds so far today. 80s in the mountains. Winds barely reached advisory criteria over most of Western WA, but the San Juans were firmly wind-advisory material. I believe wind advisory is defined as 30-39 mph sustained for an hour or more or wind gusts of 46-57 mph, but I think the offices also issue them based on impact, which is a…[Read more]

Here’s one over Seattle… not quite as dramatic but still very impressive. I think my house got hit by one of the areas of red… we had a torrential downpour. Heard reports of lightning with this band as well.

Just had a pretty vicious squall line come through Central Seattle! A look at the radar shows four squall lines oriented SSW to NNE from Seattle to Portland. We’ll still have heavy showers at times throughout the day, but they will be decreasing as the day goes on and the steady rain we had this morning is over.

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Hi Brie and Mark! I was already completely obsessed with weather before the HES storm but that was one heck of a storm – definitely the most memorable weather event of my life aside from the big thunderstorm I saw when I was 5 that got me interested in weather for the first place.

I head on back down to Portland this afternoon – I’m excited to see what the swollen Willamette looks like on Friday.

25,000 raw files? Holy crap. I have some spare external hard drives you could use if you want BTW, a 1 tb and a 1.5 tb. Both are pretty old and need to be plugged into an outlet, but perhaps you could find them useful.

Rain let up for a bit but now it looks like its starting to come back. Thankfully, it looks like the heaviest rain is on its way out. http://www.atmos.washington.edu/weather/radar.shtml

Raining like crazy here right now… our backyard is a muddy, puddly mess! Well, at least it’s in better shape than the passes.

The goal is not to code actual forecast models (like the GFS), but to make software that plots the output from those models. GFS has millions of lines of code!

It would be fun to try and make a really primitive model though.

A good place to start is by downloading GrADS and running their tutorial. GrADS is made for linux but there is a version called OpenGrADS for windows. Here’s a download link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/opengrads/files/latest/download

Then, you can follow this tutorial. http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/tutorial.html

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Potential for breezy conditions on Friday morning when the degrading parent low swings through.