Las Vegas, NV | November 26-30

At re:Invent 2018, you can expect deeper technical content, more hands-on learning opportunities, and more access to AWS experts than ever.

New Orleans, LA | November 28-30

The International WorkBoat Show is a trade-only conference and expo for commercial vessel owners, operators and builders as well as the vendors and suppliers that serve them.

Lititz, PA | November 28-30

This year’s event will explore the importance of intentional design when developing safety and operational plans, training, event structures, and careers. Featuring over 20 presentations, workshops, forums, and activities this year’s Event Safety Summit is the most comprehensive and inclusive program to date.

Another early taste of winter is in store for the Northeast by the end of this week, just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. Both the GFS and ECMWF weather models are predicting temperatures to plummet as much as 25-30 degrees below normal, particularly in interior parts of the Northeast, as an arctic air mass plunges south out of Canada.

Weather radar data is useful to both the professional meteorologist and the interested nonprofessional for—among other things— tracking dangerous thunderstorms (containing, for example, deadly lightning, damaging hail, and tornadoes), locating significant wind shifts and surface boundaries (e.g., drylines and fronts), and even tracking bats flying out of their caves and from under bridges looking for their next meal. The topic of this blog is to discuss how weather radar can be used to estimate precipitation accumulations. Along the way, we will mention some problems with these estimates and describe how the impact of those problems can be mitigated.

Turn on the news, and you're bound to hear stories about the fires in the West followed by additional footage of heavy snowfall in the East. Some are dealing with flooding while others are dealing with drought. We have quite the range of weather occurring in November from one coast to the other.