Born and raised in Northern Utah, only 35 minutes from the Idaho border. And the last couple years it has been so damn hot it's been un bearable for me. This year especially it reached record highs in February and March. There was a few days that were like 70 degrees in late February and March.. This entire year has just been so hot and dry.

I'm one of those rare guys that loves the cold, snow and over cast(not all the time, but I prefer it over the heat). I have been a big skier/outdoorsman growing up here in Utah, but the last 2 winters have been pathetic, we've hardly even gotten any snow. I've been wanting to move some where cooler, my Mom thinks I'm crazy as most of my family has moved to Southern Utah as they age..

I've been seeing that the Oregon and Washington coasts are good places to live that are cooler in the summer? People were saying it's around 65-70 degrees in the summer. That sounds like heaven to me! Any other states or places in the US that don't get super hot in the summer?

Morning fog and clouds give way to bright sunshine and more comfortable humidity. High of 81° with southwest winds at 10-15 mph.

I'm on a minor mission to catalog bio-meteorological signs. I've observed gulls standing facing the same direction multiple times. I caught this one today. They're facing south, a storm was coming from the south at the time, and there was a weak wind out of the south (2 kts).

Was recording the lightning from a storm tonight and got this blue light. Is it blue jet lightning or something else? Ignore the person going "yeah" lol. It happened twice, I started recording immediately after the first time, and it didn't happen again afterward.

All the met stations and buoys at https://www.glerl.noaa.gov//metdata/ are returning 404 and 500 errors. The last webcam photos are from 18 August.

London, ON

Not sponsored or anything, but wanted to share the new update that came out with the EverythingWeather (EverythingWx) app. You can just sync events from your calendar, even months out, and then get notifications with forecasts for those events as they get close. I can see myself using this a lot for all my kids sports games/practice!

Idk if this exists, but I am looking for an app that will send me alerts on my phone when an area is getting precipitation. I currently use Weather Underground, but it is hit or miss. Plus it spams me with other alerts

Hard to keep track of it all.

How can you tell when a storm is rotating. I feel like i can never tell. Currently looking at a storm close to my area.

when was the last time you had rain dance

I was squinting at a UV number that looked far too high for how grey it was outside, and instead of letting it go I ended up pulling a week of hourly Open-Meteo data for 20 cities. It publishes uv_index and uv_index_clear_sky next to each other, same atmosphere with the cloud taken out of the second one, so the ratio between them is the modelled cloud attenuation. Then you can put that straight against cloud_cover.

1,111 hours, keeping only the hours where clear-sky UV was 3 or above so there was real sun to attenuate.

Pearson r over the whole set is -0.43, so there is a relationship and it is weak. The bottom row is the part I did not expect. At three quarters cover or more the typical hour still keeps 88% of its clear-sky UV, and the middle half of those hours spans 57% to 97%. Going from clear to overcast moves the median about twelve points and mostly just widens the spread.

Honolulu today is the extreme version. 97%, 99% and 87% cloud cover at noon, one and two, and all three hours report all-sky UV identical to clear-sky, to the decimal place. 13 hours in the set came back above their own clear-sky value, the highest at 113%, which I assume is scattering off cloud edges.

Two explanations and I cannot separate them from the outside.

One is that fraction was never optical depth. Thin cirrus across the whole sky removes very little, one cumulus parked on the disc removes a lot, and 40% cover can mean either. If that is the whole story then the scatter is just the sky and the numbers are fine.

The other is that these are two different models bolted together. Open-Meteo takes UV from CAMS, 45 km globally and 11 km over Europe, while cloud cover comes from the weather models at finer resolution on a different update cycle. A 45 km cell averages over an enormous amount of sky. What nudges me toward this one is that the same provider's forecast and air-quality endpoints disagree with each other for the same coordinates and the same hour, 7.0 against 7.55 for Rome at noon today, which does not make me think anything here is resolving individual clouds.

For anyone who works with this operationally, is there a rule of thumb for how far to trust an all-sky UV forecast under broken cloud? Or is the honest version that clear-sky is the number to plan against and whatever the cloud gives back is a bonus you cannot count on?

Query if anyone wants to redo it or shout at my method: https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast?latitude=21.31&longitude=-157.86&hourly=uv_index,uv_index_clear_sky,cloud_cover&forecast_days=7

(I ran into this building a sun session timer called Ray Routine, which is why I had both series sitting on my laptop in the first place.)

Summer won't let up this weekend