Messages

2626

TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Comcast Sucks.

« on: July 08, 2010, 11:36:44 AM »

Comcast lied to us about Southern Jersey having 50 extra HD channels including TWC HD. I watched the local intellistar yesterday and saw TWC working there (the Avalon glitch still hasn't been fixed) but TWC HD doesn't appear on the channel listings yet.

Still don't have it here yet either. Comcast Lower Bucks has at least 50-75 more HD channels than Comcast Garden State.

2627

OCMs & Personalities / Re: New OCM - Crystal Egger

« on: July 07, 2010, 11:45:47 PM »

Well, they just fired Keneely this week, so no one there seems safe!

Do you work for TWC by any chance?

2628

Programming and Graphics / Re: Weather Channel Updating graphics again?

« on: July 07, 2010, 11:17:39 PM »

Nothing new. TWC used countless banners for their maps from around late 2006 until the HD relaunch.

2629

Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: July 07, 2010, 11:12:21 PM »

Speaking of WC, what happened to Where Am I and the Top 5?

2630

Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: July 07, 2010, 10:01:52 PM »

Nicole is on solo on WC tonight as Paul is headed to Texas.

2631

TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Comcast Sucks.

« on: July 07, 2010, 09:47:34 PM »

Finally upgraded my old SA box from 2000 to a brand new one that uses the Cisco branding (after SA was acquired in 2005). It's smaller, a LOT faster, and I also get some HD channels.

2632

Everything Else TWC / Re: Redesigned website coming soon!

« on: July 07, 2010, 09:43:36 PM »

My friend just told me he is redirected automatically to the new weather.com, but I'm still getting to the old one unless if I manually enter in preview.weather.com.

Weather underground is even worse. They reported the temperature down in Atlantic City as 111..when it was really 101 from the NWS (correct reading). And TWC recorded it as 94 and that's not right because it felt way more hotter than that.

Weather underground is very inaccurate, I don't trust it at all. I only use TWC and sometimes NWS and AccuWeather.

2633

Weatherscan Discussion / Re: Weatherscan Topic

« on: July 06, 2010, 11:07:25 PM »

If only they could at LEAST change the playlist on Weatherscan, it isn't that hard to do. Or even just revert back to one of the previous playlists, such as the 2005-2006 one (my favorite).

2634

Everything Else TWC / Re: Redesigned website coming soon!

« on: July 06, 2010, 08:29:06 PM »

The NWS is another site well overdue for updates. It has barely ever been touched since I started using it in 2004.

2635

OCMs & Personalities / Re: OCM Layoff- Bill Keneely

« on: July 06, 2010, 07:54:57 PM »

Seems that NBC just wants to forget about the old TWC...

2636

Hurricane Central / Re: Invest 96L

« on: July 06, 2010, 07:21:12 PM »

Now a 30-50% chance of development:

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
200 PM EDT TUE JUL 6 2010

FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...

1. A BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER THE NORTHERN YUCATAN PENINSULA AND
THE SOUTH CENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO IS PRODUCING A LARGE AREA OF
DISORGANIZED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHWESTERN
CARIBBEAN SEA...THE YUCATAN PENINSULA...AND PORTIONS OF THE EASTERN
GULF OF MEXICO.  ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS APPEAR MARGINALLY
CONDUCIVE FOR SLOW DEVELOPMENT OF THIS SYSTEM AS IT MOVES
WEST-NORTHWESTWARD AT 10 TO 15 MPH.  THERE IS A MEDIUM CHANCE...30
PERCENT...OF THIS SYSTEM BECOMING A TROPICAL CYCLONE DURING THE
NEXT 48 HOURS.  REGARDLESS OF DEVELOPMENT...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL
AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE OVER PORTIONS OF THE YUCATAN PENINSULA
THROUGH TONIGHT.

ELSEWHERE...TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED DURING THE
NEXT 48 HOURS.

$$
FORECASTER BROWN
NNNN

2637

Hurricane Central / Re: Invest 95L

« on: July 06, 2010, 07:17:59 PM »

The two numbers go from 90 to 99 and repeat for each invest throughout the world.  I don't know why they chose those numbers alone, but that's how it's done.  The last letter indicates what basin the invest is located.  L stands for the Atlantic, E stands for the Eastern Pacific, and C stands for the Central Pacific.  Hope that helps!

Ah, I see. Odd how they chose those numbers. I thought it had something to do with the coordinates of where the invest is located. Thanks for your help.

2638

Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: July 06, 2010, 06:58:33 PM »

Yea but the past is the past I suppose. Funny how everyone "hated" the previous icon set and now that the icons have a more XL look people still hate them 

I think what throws people off the most is the same icons are used for several different conditions (i.e. showers/light rain, and rain use the same icon, as well as drizzle/few showers, thunderstorms/strong thunderstorms, and isolated/scattered to name a few).

2639

Your Local Weather / Re: Philadelphia weather

« on: July 06, 2010, 06:05:17 PM »

Here are three Local Forecast clips for now:

Local Forecast - 7/6/10 - 4:18pm

Local Forecast - 7/6/10 - 4:28pm

Local Forecast - 7/6/10 - 4:38pm

2640

Everything Else TWC / Re: Redesigned website coming soon!

« on: July 06, 2010, 05:51:45 PM »

Is anyone else automatically being directed to the new site when they type in www.weather.com? This is probably intentional, but I thought the site wasn't supposed to launch for nine days.

Nope, it still links me to the old site.