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General Weather Chat / Re: July 2012 no longer "Warmest month on record"

« on: July 02, 2014, 10:36:01 AM »

Did they change it back?

According to http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2012/07, under "Climate Highlights - July," bullet point #1:

"The average temperature for the contiguous U.S. during July was 77.6°F, 3.3°F above the 20th century average, marking the warmest July and all-time warmest month on record for the nation in a period of record that dates back to 1895. The previous warmest July for the nation was July 1936, when the average U.S. temperature was 77.4°F."

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New TWC show: Fat Guys in the Woods

« on: June 23, 2014, 10:22:29 AM »

I think it's clear that TWC has no interest in earning back their credibility.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Tornado Alley: Twisted Believers

« on: June 20, 2014, 03:23:44 PM »

Oh, so it's not a documentary.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Tornado Alley: Twisted Believers

« on: June 19, 2014, 10:19:16 AM »

No. What's it about, and what did they get wrong?

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General Discussion / Re: Casey Kasem Dies at 82

« on: June 15, 2014, 10:06:21 PM »

He's actually also famous for his American Top 40, which I believe Ryan Seacrest now hosts.

I believe he covered that with "radio host."

From what I understand, it sounds like his family pretty much abandoned him. He was missing for awhile a few weeks ago. Very sad. Although I preferred "Rick Dees and the Weekly Top 40" growing up, I have fond memories of listening to Casey. And Scooby Doo was my favorite cartoon growing up.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 14, 2014, 05:41:58 PM »

I'm not sure what's going on. It's been down for several days. I asked Nick if he could find out, but he doesn't have Bill's email address. We're thinking he might have been hacked, but I'm surprised he hasn't fixed (or at least addressed) the problem yet. Very strange.

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Local Forecast / Re: 4000/XL/Jr. - The End Is Near

« on: June 03, 2014, 03:20:34 PM »

Is TWC just using headend locations as the CC city for all STARs now, regardless whether it's centralized in the viewing area or how large the city is?

That's something I noticed in Arkansas. My grandpa's STAR was always a city nearby (but never particularly close). Now it's his city (which is pretty small).

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Local Forecast / Re: 4000/XL/Jr. - The End Is Near

« on: June 03, 2014, 10:22:30 AM »

Mattoon/Charleston WeatherSTAR XL was decommissioned early this morning. RIP XL 6/3/2014.
Now we have whatever this is called.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Eh1Hd2mFWUc" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/Eh1Hd2mFWUc</a>

I believe that's the IntelliSTAR 2, which is what my grandpa now has in Arkansas.

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General Discussion / Re: YouTube subscriptions

« on: June 01, 2014, 12:28:29 PM »

The tiny dots on the right-hand side of each video (when you hover over it) used to show up in Chrome. So I'd view subscription videos in that browser. But as of a week or two ago, they've disappeared. So I have a backlog (albeit a small one) as well.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: The Weather Channel updates weather.com

« on: May 31, 2014, 08:06:00 PM »

Yah, I noticed it awhile back. Not particularly exciting.

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General Discussion / Re: HELP with make a software

« on: May 30, 2014, 03:25:06 PM »

Please don't yell.

What is the specific problem you're running into?

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Local Forecast / Re: 4000/XL/Jr. - The End Is Near

« on: May 24, 2014, 05:33:52 PM »

I'm visiting my grandpa in Fairfield Bay, Arkansas this weekend. Finally saw a LF on TWC, and I'm sad to report that their WeatherSTAR 4000 (which was a 3000 in the early to mid 90s) was upgraded to an IntelliSTAR 2 (or whatever one has Jim Cantore narrating).

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Everything Else TWC / Re: The Weather Channel vs. Fort Worth Councilman on Twitter

« on: May 13, 2014, 02:33:07 AM »

This is why I hate Twitter. It's a haven for bullies and self-proclaimed victims. In this case, Joel being the bully and his defenders being the self-proclaimed victims (and therefore also bullies).

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Local Forecast / Re: 4000/XL/Jr. - The End Is Near

« on: May 09, 2014, 12:51:39 AM »

No press release, as the general public doesn't know nor really would care.

I could have sworn there was a press release when the 3000 was decommissioned. I can't think of any other way we found out about it. I remember Charles did a 30 Days of the WeatherSTAR 3000 in December 2004 on TWCC.

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Local Forecast / Re: 4000/XL/Jr. - The End Is Near

« on: May 08, 2014, 03:20:43 PM »

I can confirm I've independently verified this through a TWC employee.

You can confirm what? That it's true or not true? If it's true, who's paying for it and is there a press release? Seems like pretty big news.