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Local Forecast / Re: Travel Cities

« on: August 24, 2009, 01:15:08 AM »

Green Bay, WI (ID#24804)
My Travel Cities are:
Appleton
Milwaukee
Madison

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Local Forecast / Re: Weatherstar 4000 Locations that remain

« on: June 19, 2009, 10:17:45 PM »

Tucumcari, New Mexico had a WS4000; I discovered it 2 days ago.
Mind you, it's the most degraded STAR I've ever seen in my life and out of all the videos I've seen of degraded ones, you could hardly tell it was a 4000.

I have a crappy clip of it on a camera, but it'll be a while before I can post it because the computer I brought on my trip doesn't recognize the required card reader.

I also noticed how 'rusty' that Star 4000 is, compared to the other ones I watched. I haven't seen one like that in a while. The only other one that had such a problem was in Perry/Lecompton, KS, located near Topeka, back in 2006.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTEVjkcWRW0

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TWC Fan Art / Re: TWC Fan Art of WS4000

« on: March 27, 2009, 07:43:57 PM »

You misspelled "Getaway Forecast," otherwise, great fan art.

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Contributions / Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos

« on: January 30, 2009, 07:20:41 AM »

That's great that you found a Star 4000 on a college campus in Alabama. At least it didn't suffer the way the 4000 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas did. This 4000 is in good condition for it's age. I'm guessing this one was installed sometime in the mid 1990s, since most older Star 4000s usually degrade after years of use. The problem with most Star 4000s are that they tend to have glitches (black clouds as a result of unfinished icon layering, especially on the Current Conditions, and Extended Forecast pages.) which have little to no impact. The video I saw on YouTube of a Weather Star 4000 on hot summer afternoon in Topeka, Kansas looked like an acid trip because of the degradation caused by the searing heat back in 2006, and with "Sunday" by Moby playing in the background.