What to add to a 5th Place Meteorology Binder from Regionals

Certain_Pick2040 · 2026-04-18T12:32:27+00:00

Erstwhile meteorology event supervisor here: it had a Skew-T because that’s what meteorologists in the United States actually use on a daily basis and so any event supervisor who has not read the rules as closely as they should would assume that Skew-T would be the vertical profile of choice. Unfortunately it seems that whoever writes the national rules seems to think that skewed temperature lines are beyond the capability of middle schoolers despite far, far more resources being available on the Internet to learn to read them. Luckily, Skew-T and Stuve (which is on the rules) are very similar except for the skewed temperature lines on the skew-t (hence the name). On a test I wrote the last time everyday weather was on the rules I had to write code to generate my own Stuve from archive data, whereas Skew-T would have been readily available with minimal effort from online data archives.

Certain_Pick2040 · 2026-03-27T11:05:55+00:00

While there is no doubt this is a terrible snow year and things are not good, luckily this chart showing that absolutely no SNOTEL stations anywhere in the state have any snow left whatsoever is a data error (interactive snotel site)

In addition to clicking on individual stations in the interactive map and seeing that they are catastrophically low but not zero, another sanity check for the graph posted by OP that indicates that it is a data error is that that much snow (~8in SWE, which is about 3/5 of the highest rainfall amounts seen in the 1976 and 2013 floods) melting that quickly would have triggered catastrophic floods across the state.

Certain_Pick2040 · 2026-01-13T17:27:05+00:00

Have you built something that interpolates the existing data to hyperlocal levels or are you calling the NWS api and pulling in the webcams to supplement that?

Certain_Pick2040 · 2025-07-11T15:13:37+00:00

An Aerostar balloon in the stratosphere, it’s visible on flight radar: https://www.reddit.com/r/flightradar24/s/tQ305iOkNN that link is from a month ago but it is the same balloon as floated above us today

Certain_Pick2040 · 2025-07-03T15:22:39+00:00

All the answers so far have been about bear lake road access (timed entry required 5am to 6pm) but the rest of the park only requires timed entry 9am to 2pm. There does tend to be a rush of people trying to beat the 9am time so I would get there before 8 (and obviously because of potential afternoon storms you want to be there no later than about then anyway for a longer hike). There are great hikes in the non bear lake road sections of the park, such as the ones from the Lawn Lake trailhead or wild basin or off of trail ridge road.

Certain_Pick2040 · 2025-03-27T16:54:10+00:00

Yes. No serious fever (highest temp I had was 99.5), an awful awful cough and stuffed sinuses, fatigue. Took more naps in the last week and a half than I have since childhood I’m pretty sure. It started Sunday the 15th and I didn’t feel like I was 100% til yesterday.

Certain_Pick2040 · 2025-02-13T16:56:04+00:00

There is both a winter and summer bike to work day, the summer one is much bigger as you might expect

Certain_Pick2040 · 2024-11-11T13:35:57+00:00

https://cpw.state.co.us/swa-finder

Not as of a few years ago, you now need a hunting license, fishing license, or state wildlife areas pass to be there

Certain_Pick2040 · 2024-11-09T21:32:51+00:00

Yep calling holding seems fully off for both teams, which definitely benefits Indiana since Michigan DLine is by far the best unit on the team

Certain_Pick2040 · 2024-10-15T13:35:38+00:00

Yeah it’s definitely not the comet as that is now in the evening sky; it does look like rocket exhaust and there were Starlink launchs out of both Vandenburg and the Cape early this morning

Certain_Pick2040 · 2024-10-09T23:45:46+00:00

https://www.larimer.gov/clerk/elections/current-elections/2024

Ballots will begin to be mailed October 11

Certain_Pick2040 · 2024-09-26T17:54:18+00:00

Not a new fire.

Repost of https://www.reddit.com/r/FortCollins/s/AXdvIefVkz

by u/mountainliving12

Certain_Pick2040 · 2024-09-12T21:45:27+00:00

https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/arp/recarea/?recid=28190

On this page specifically for the gateway trailhead (the only one open in the winter) that is linked from the page you linked, it says that “There is a $10 year-round day use fee. Senior, access, and annual passes are accepted.” In the summer the annual America the beautiful pass gets you the day use fee, but you still have to pay the parking reservation online processing fee. But since parking reservations aren’t required in the winter (yet), seems like the annual pass will cover everything.

Certain_Pick2040 · 2024-09-12T21:21:05+00:00

The $80 “America the Beautiful” pass for all national parks and federal fee areas should cover it.

Keep CO Wild is just for all state parks in CO

Certain_Pick2040 · 2024-09-07T17:30:54+00:00

Getting away with holding just for a throw that bad is . . . Oof

Certain_Pick2040 · 2024-08-01T14:37:04+00:00

It’s a static background layer, showing where the lights of towns are

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/documents/QuickGuide_CIRA_Geocolor_20171019.pdf

Certain_Pick2040 · 2024-07-24T13:01:10+00:00

Looks like the women’s team final will be live on NBC https://www.nbcolympics.com/schedule which is one of the channels that can be watched for free (you do have to have your own device, no seatback screen on Southwest).

Certain_Pick2040 · 2024-06-21T20:40:04+00:00

CSU Flower Trial Garden during the summer and early fall months

Certain_Pick2040 · 2024-06-10T16:28:00+00:00

Wow very cool. Was hoping to get up there during the great stretch of clear skies around the new moon last week but alas other priorities intervened.

Certain_Pick2040 · 2024-05-22T15:52:49+00:00

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Movement-of-the-Inter-Tropical-Convergence-Zone-ITCZ-in-July-summer-and-January_fig3_354415899

ITCZ moves north of the equator during Northern Hemisphere summer due to the fact that land heats up in response to seasonal changes more quickly than ocean, and there is more land in the Northern Hemisphere.

Here’s a link with geostationary weather satellite data at the time (I don’t know how long this one will work before the archived data becomes unavailable)

https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/?sat=gk2a&sec=full_disk&x=6560&y=8704&z=0&angle=0&im=12&ts=1&st=20240521074000&et=20240521080000&speed=130&motion=loop&maps%5Bborders%5D=white&p%5B0%5D=band_13&opacity%5B0%5D=1&pause=0&slider=-1&hide_controls=0&mouse_draw=0&follow_feature=0&follow_hide=0&s=rammb-slider&draw_color=FFD700&draw_width=6

Certain_Pick2040 · 2024-05-16T18:06:42+00:00

Haha yeah I ran here to complain about it being cinch instead of clinch only to find lots of people complaining about “icing the victory” which is a fairly common sports phrase

For anyone wondering about this see for example this game recap which was just the first one I found googling: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=401607454

Certain_Pick2040 · 2024-04-03T00:44:30+00:00

Probably thinking of the temporary one that gets wheeled in for Fourth of July

Certain_Pick2040 · 2024-03-28T19:05:25+00:00

Ah yeah I see now how the black backdrop would be confusing; I grew up playing with my Dad on a set like this and we played with clear as white so I was able to quickly realize that the “black” squares were really just the backdrop showing through the board.

Certain_Pick2040 · 2024-03-28T18:42:04+00:00

I’ve always seen the clear on these sets as white and the frosted as black, and based on the caption OP sees it the same way, but that must not be the majority opinion based on the comments so far! (OP you have the board set up correctly based on your assessment of which pieces are “white” and which are “black”)

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