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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Re: Update-Related Issues

« on: December 01, 2013, 11:59:53 PM »

Anyone else getting moon icons (e.g., clear instead of sunny) during the evening/overnight for tomorrow's forecast, or is this only an issue for those of us out West?

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Re: IS #22630 Albuquerque not showing non-convective watches/warnings

« on: November 22, 2013, 12:15:57 AM »

Is there any hope that the 2 issues I mentioned in the first post above will be fixed? Any forum members have any suggestions on alternate routes to get this taken care of?

1. We have 2 active advisories/warnings, and none of them show up during the Local on the 8s or on Weatherscan.  A snippet from the Zone Forecast Product:

NMZ519-221115-
ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALBUQUERQUE...LOS LUNAS...RIO RANCHO
853 PM MST THU NOV 21 2013

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST FRIDAY...
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE
SUNDAY NIGHT...

.REST OF TONIGHT...WINDY. RAIN LATE IN THE EVENING...THEN RAIN AND
SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. SNOW ACCUMULATION 1 TO 2 INCHES IN THE
FOOTHILLS. LOWS IN THE LOWER TO MID 30S. EAST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH
INCREASING TO 20 TO 30 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT. BELOW CANYONS...EAST
WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH INCREASING TO 25 TO 35 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH... EXCEPT 50 MPH BELOW CANYONS.

2. Still no close-up metro radar for Weatherscan.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: November 03, 2013, 01:38:47 AM »

Don't know why WCL is still showing this late (been on for at least 1 1/2 hr). Trying to burn off OCM time in advance of schedule changes?

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Re: IS #22630 Albuquerque not showing non-convective watches/warnings

« on: October 18, 2013, 05:43:52 PM »

None of the issues mentioned above have been fixed. Still not showing the non-convective watches/warnings. We are under a freeze warning, and nothing on either the SD channel 35 or SD Weatherscan 101. Also the close-up radar on Weatherscan never shows the zoomed-in radar.

Excerpt from the Zone Forecast Product:
NMZ519-191000- 
ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA- 
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALBUQUERQUE...LOS LUNAS...RIO RANCHO 
306 PM MDT FRI OCT 18 2013 
   
..FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 9 AM MDT SATURDAY 
   
TONIGHT 
MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S TO MID 30S. NORTH 
WINDS 10 TO 20 MPH.   

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / IS #22630 Albuquerque not showing non-convective watches/warnings

« on: October 04, 2013, 05:29:08 PM »

Cable network: Comcast
Local weather ID: 22630
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Channels: TWC SD 35, Weatherscan SD 101

Issues:
1. While the IS shows convective (e.g., severe thunderstorm or flood) warnings, it has not shown non-convective watches or warnings. For example, the Albuquerque metro area has a Freeze Warning in effect for tonight, but this does not show up on either TWC SD 35 or Weatherscan SD 101. Convective and flood warnings use the county identifier and would still go through. The error likely is due to the fact that the NWS WFO Albuquerque realigned its zones several years ago, and the IS zone forecast was not changed appropriately to capture other watches and warnings (e.g., Severe Thunderstorm Watch, Wind Advisory, Winter Weather Advisory, Winter Storm Warning, etc.).  The fix would be to reprogram the IS to point to the correct zone number. The Albuquerque Metro zone is NMZ519.

Snippet from the most recent Zone Forecast Product:

NMZ519-042200-
ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALBUQUERQUE...LOS LUNAS...RIO RANCHO
328 AM MDT FRI OCT 4 2013

...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM MDT SATURDAY...

2. The local radar zoom-in hasn't worked for several months on Weatherscan SD 101, while it still works fine on TWC SD 35. Not sure why this happened, but unfortunately no rain forecast in the next several days, so unsure when you would be able to see this again.

Hope this helps.

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Contributions / Re: Local Across The 48s #6- Submissions!

« on: March 12, 2010, 01:06:44 AM »

That Atlanta video showed conditions/forecasts for a lot of different cities (if I recall right Atlanta, Dunwoody, College Park, Athens, and Marietta). Are there other areas that show so many cities?

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Everything Else TWC / Re: New Graphics and Icons

« on: March 11, 2010, 08:34:00 PM »

Hm, this is interesting! Looks like the icon update to the New Kensington Comcast Weatherscan became corrupt, as not all the icons updated!

What I think it means is that because the new icon set apparently has no distinction between showers and rain, that nothing new was mapped to these icons, whereas for everything else, the new versions replaced the old.

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Local Forecast / Re: New LDL

« on: March 11, 2010, 09:35:40 AM »

And I feel super bad to those HD viewers who are cluttered by the new sidebar/L Bar. I think the picture is just too small.

Actually the sidebar has been present for a long time on HD. The main changes I can see from Martin's clip on that is to add a feel like temperature, move down the wind indicator from the side of the temperature to below the feel like temp, replace the 3-day extended with a 6-hr forecast, and add the city name to the radar. Thus the bottom bar for the extended. And having a bottom bar doesn't make much difference, because for a lot of the time, there are title graphics that clutter that part of the screen anyway. It would actually be preferable to have the arrangement Martin shows than seeing the generic rolling cities TWC shows now (right now in the South...)

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Local Forecast / Re: New LDL

« on: March 11, 2010, 09:04:31 AM »

HD feed

Not showing up like this on my HD feed on DirecTV. Old heavy rain icon showing for forecast and cloudy icon for current conditions whatever the actual text says. Only change as shown by Martin is the radar with the city name displaying. No extended forecast bar on the bottom.

However, looking at Martin's youtube clip, appears that the same errors with showing cloudy for current conditions and excessive rain in extended were happening there as well. Perhaps they're trying to fix it?

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Local Forecast / Re: Fair Skies vs. Sunny/Clear Skies

« on: March 10, 2010, 08:46:56 AM »

Many reporting stations switched from human to automated observations with the installation of ASOS (Automated Surface Observing System) in the 1990s. The ceilometers only report cloud ceilings up to 12,000 ft, and so to avoid reporting clear conditions when the possibility exists that higher clouds exist, the system reports fair. To tell if your station is automated, look for AO2 in the remarks. The weather service may use satellite data to augment the METAR, and thus sometimes reports sunny (clear) skies even though the actual observation is only fair. I would assume TWC HiRAD similarly assimilates data from multiple sources.

We can determine more if you show the associated METAR or give the station identifier.

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Local Forecast / Re: New LDL

« on: March 09, 2010, 06:52:05 PM »

The LDL and new graphics have been delayed another 24 hours.

If it happens tomorrow, it would be one of the few times (only time) I remember a new graphics package debuts on a day other than Tuesday.

BTW, DirecTV LDL finally returned today back to normal.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: March 06, 2010, 10:40:42 PM »

Weird error.

I wished I lived in a city that had the almanac in the LF while I had cable instead of seeing moon phases and sunrise/set times.

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Maria LaRosa hired by TWC

« on: March 04, 2010, 11:39:55 PM »

Look forward to seeing her. With the exception of Chris Warren, I've felt let down by most of TWC's recent new OCMs (bland Samantha, the uh's of Todd, and the mostly radio/video OCMs Elliot and Thibodeau [to be fair about the last 2, their roles make it difficult to make a great impression]).

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Everything Else TWC / Re: New Graphics

« on: March 04, 2010, 11:30:54 PM »

Actually I like the simplicity, and think one of the reasons the current set sucked is because they were too detailed and looked horrible when scaled down. That is another reason the classic icons were so good. The new ones look like they'll scale better.

Only problem I thought the icons had were the mix precip ones

During the winter, I think it is difficult sometimes to tell the difference between the rain and snow icons, and the difference between precip intensity (ie light v heavy). I think all the precip icons looked horrible on the LDL. A bad thing about the new icons is that it continues the waste of space in the bottom part of the icon if there is no precip, often making it look awkward when set against nearby text (see the satellite LF for frequent examples).

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: March 04, 2010, 10:41:24 PM »

Feel better!