Ryan Maue

Excellent news for skiers and everyone else across the Western United States. ❄️ Enormous amounts of snowfall next week ... loading up mountains with help from "El Niño fueled" Pacific storm systems and atmospheric rivers.

Using Recast WOOF GPU enabled WRF
I took the ECMWF IFS 00z forecast for Day 3-7 and generated output using RAP physics (similar to HRRR) at 9-km. This finished in 40 mins on RTX 5090 w/total cost of 50 cents. Can't say enough about how game-changing this is -- as it opens up mesoscale modeling anywhere on Earth for literally pennies a day. WRF, MPAS, or whatever model can be ported and executed on commodity hardware on-demand. You get the output delivered in whatever format (GRIB2, Zarr) so it can be cloud-ready from the jump even as the model is still running. Thank you to @recast and @DeepGuessr

If you're into powerful extratropical cyclones, then the Gulf of Alaska has a parade ... check out the monster arriving Thursday.

We could name them, too. This one looks like Nancy.

When talking about climate change, it's historically accurate & good practice to replace "pre-industrial" with "Little Ice Age" as per the IPCC.

The 19th Century was part of the coldest period of the last 8,000 years.

It was the Little Ice Age that forced humanity to industrialize in Europe.

⚠️We've been warning about this for months. The Super El Niño is the most powerful since the Little Ice Age, and 16th Century when Magellan and Sir Francis Drake explored the Pacific Ocean.🌎

In the 1500s, European temperatures collapsed, grain could not grow, and everyone starved. 🥔

We're now in uncharted territory coming out of the coldest centuries in past 8,000 years. While this El Niño will not bring famine inducing cold shocks, we can expect "climate fueled" weather extremes to roil our planet even during Northern Hemisphere winter.