Hey Grouseking, speak to me of weather!

[Paradox]

I used to think I knew a thing or two of weather and skywatching. However you have given us a few posts from Earl Barker's weather pages. The maps are beautiful and the number of choices is more than a bit mind blowing. Can you provide me(us) with some background on these. In particular I would like to know if there is a key to the abbreviations and which of them you find particularly useful.

 

[grouseking]

Ha, well...I'm not a meteorologist...

If you're referring to the snow maps...I used to get a lot of help reading those....they change fairly often. The snow accumulation adds up over time on the maps and doesn't go away...so if it says we get 6 inches on hour 40 and we get no more snow thru hour 120, there will still show 6 inches on hour 120. That might be a little confusing.... For other questions...honestly, you might want to ask a meteorologist, I think there is one on here...

I don't want to put him on the spot or anything, but I'm willing to bet a bunch of money he could explain this stuff more clearly than me. But as for really neat links for mountain weather, or little tools that I like to use...or websites. I'm more than willing to show them. What do you want to know?

grouseking

 

[adkleaddog]

What maps are you referencing to? Is it from here:

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/nerfc/snow_ice.shtml

which leads to here:

"Northeastern U.S. Snow Depth" at:

http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/interactive/html/map.html

I can answer some q's regarding these, (I provide the snowpack data at certain stations throughout the ADK's for the NWS starting in January)

woof!

 

[grouseking]

This is where I get the snowfall maps.

http://www.wxcaster.com/regional_snowfall.htm

So much cool stuff here.

But I do like that snow depth page.

grouseking

 

[DougPaul]

What maps are you referencing to? Is it from here:
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/nerfc/snow_ice.shtml

which leads to here:

"Northeastern U.S. Snow Depth" at:
http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/interactive/html/map.html

www.nohrsc.nws.gov doesn't respond, but following a different link off your first link:

(NE) Snow Depth Map (Updated Daily): http://www.erh.noaa.gov/nerfc/graphics/snowmaps/html/snow_depth.html

Doug

 

[Chip]

I think Paradox meant;

"Speak to me of summer, long winters longer than time can remember,
The setting up of other roads, to travel on in old accustomed ways.
I still remember the talks by the water, the proud sons and daughters that
knew the knowledge of the land, that spoke to me in sweet accustomed ways."

 

[adkleaddog]

I think Paradox meant;

"Speak to me of summer, long winters longer than time can remember,
The setting up of other roads, to travel on in old accustomed ways.
I still remember the talks by the water, the proud sons and daughters that
knew the knowledge of the land, that spoke to me in sweet accustomed ways."

hmmmm....YES..."Fragile"???

nope....now that I put some thought into it...Starship Trooper, I believe...

 

[Chip]

...Starship Trooper, I believe...

Yeah Baby, yeah. (Frickin awesome acoustic cover)

Sorry for the theft, guys, tough day. This was the highpoint.

And now back to our regularly scheduled VFTT thread...

 

[Paradox]

This is where I get the snowfall maps.

http://www.wxcaster.com/regional_snowfall.htm

So much cool stuff here.

But I do like that snow depth page.

grouseking

Very good, Yes! I had not found this URL and the row headings are deciferable. I had found some others where I found I was only guessing as to what it was representing. For instance: http://wxcaster.com/conus_offhr_models.htm

 

[Paradox]

This is where I get the snowfall maps.
http://www.wxcaster.com/regional_snowfall.htm
So much cool stuff here.
But I do like that snow depth page.
grouseking

Here is something else from that website (U.S. map with inches of precip. over time):

http://grib2.com/animate/gfs0p5.php3?fcsthour=12&type=1000-500_SLPTHKPRP&region=CONUS&loop=LOOPIT

I thought the loop was pretty cool.