I switched to Godot expecting some pain but it was great. Way more depth of searchable stuff on the net to help figure things out than I expected.
If you're thinking of starting a new project and you're experienced with unity, don't be put off making the switch. It won't put you back as much as you think and it's a lot better in many ways, but more importantly it's momentum is going in the right direction
I posted this in a comment but going to post it again at the top level. For anyone interested in discussing this, I highly recommend you read the NHC forecasters day 2 summary. Ignore the media, just go straight to the source.
This is very much unprecedented, despite many here posting that hurricane remnants hit CA all the time.
The 19/12z NAEFS is indicating IVT values 19.1 sigmas
above the mean; it should be noted that it is using a dataset that
does not include the rash of tropical cyclones that impacted the
Southwest in the 1970's, so this value is likely a bit too high.
Even assuming a non-standard distribution and standard deviations
half as large, this is extreme. There is a very real potential
for 3" amounts in an hour in this environment should sufficient
instability be present. Even if instability was completely
eroded, 0.5" an hour totals would be possible; heavy rain appears
inevitable. The 00z Canadian Regional shows local amounts of
towards 10", which would be exceeding rare for the region from a
tropical cyclone, potentially unique for Nevada. The 100 year ARI
is forecast to be exceeded. Some locations within this arid
region are slated to get 1-2 years worth of rain in one day. If a
7"+ maximum materialized over Mount Charleston Sunday into early
Monday, it would challenge Nevada's 24 hour rainfall record, set
in 2004.
What's wild to me is that 1-3" of rain / hour is about our norm for any given storm (southern MO, where evey cloud is a microburst). Really helps put into perspective how little rain Cali is used to.
At least that part of California. It's a gigantic state and some areas see fairly significant seasonal rain. This storm, however, will impact a region that includes the Mojave Desert - the dryest place in North America.
IIRC, The excellent book Dreamt Land says 2/3 of California's precipitation falls in the northern 1/3 of the state. But it's the southern part with the ideal climate for agriculture. Hence the largest water movement system in history.
One interesting thing I learned while in Las Vegas during a major rain storm, a lot of the buildings leak like a sieve. Word was that heavy rain happens so rarely that leaks are rare to present themselves and thus hard to discover and hard to troubleshoot.
I'm watching this storm with interest, but I'm a little bit skeptical due to all the extreme language that the NWS forecast used around the storm in January February of this year, which ended up being basically a nothing Burger.
It depends on which ones you're talking about. I got hit pretty hard by the rain around New Years in late December and early January, so I was watching the forecasts fairly closely.
There's also the question of what constitutes a huge deal.
It was the later storms where the NWS is using far more extreme language that ended up being basically inconsequential
I know. I live in Los Angeles. Last winter we had 12 atmospheric rivers over 2 or 3 months, each dumping as much water in a 24h period as Hilary is expected for our area.
Areas like Palm Springs, though, are expecting much more and I’m worried about my friends there.
However, to say a hurricane is hitting California is hyperbole. I’ve been in hurricanes in both Florida and New York.
Unprecedented? How about when the Central Valley fills up with water every 300 years? Is someone actually claiming that this is never happened in the history of California?
Serious question, overblown or not? CEnter has passed San Diego and they got .97" of rain (SD Airport measurement). Riverside 1.4". LAX 1.27", Long Beach 1.56".
This was fear mongering: "The 19/12z NAEFS is indicating IVT values 19.1 sigmas above the mean;"
.1" is average rainfall for the whole month of August for Los Angeles, so if they get 3" today, it is both a massive 30x the month in a day, and also nothing to panic about.
That's just 5 20tb drives. Some cloud providers will copy it on to them if you send them in, and usually cheaper than the bandwidth cost. Same for ingress
Not necessarily. The "strained crystal" approach probably extends to other elements; mixing Pb and Cu works well since there's a large difference in their sizes, but rare earths might work just as well as Pb.
If you're thinking of starting a new project and you're experienced with unity, don't be put off making the switch. It won't put you back as much as you think and it's a lot better in many ways, but more importantly it's momentum is going in the right direction