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Local Forecast / Re: Classic LF Questions

« on: March 05, 2021, 06:20:01 PM »

I'm going to bring this topic back to life again, are we 100% sure the XL received the first set of new flavors with the introduction of the "Daypart Forecast" and "The Week Ahead" products in March 2002? Because this clip from Friday, March 29, 2002 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFVy1oQJ6Lg still shows the old flavors, and I can remember years ago on Yahoo!, seeing a "New York City" XL from Saturday, March 30, 2002 on the "Regional Forecast" map with the LDL on the "HUMIDITY" and "DEW POINT" section, meaning that XL was still running the old flavors. I don't know if the missing date and time on the LFs as well as "Saturday Forecast" suddenly becoming "Friday Forecast" after the transition in is any relation or not, but have we been wrong about the first set of flavor changes coming in March 2002 all these years, or did at least 2 XLs out there miss getting the update right away?

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Local Forecast / Re: Classic LF Questions

« on: October 01, 2020, 04:04:53 PM »

I'm going to bring this little topic of mine back to life. On the IntelliStar, what exactly was regularly enough precipitation for the "Local Radar" to show? For example, on this newly-posted video https://twcclassics.com/watch.php?file=struttin-benoit-freeman, there's barely anything in the area, and the "Local Radar" was shown, but I've seen more precipitation in an area than that (both online and in person) and the "Local Radar" was not shown. I do know that the IS 2s are different in that their "Local Radar" products will only show if there's at least a 20% chance of precipitation within the next hour, regardless if there's actually precipitation in the area or not.

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Local Forecast / Re: Regional Forecast Map - Appeared at 12:48PM 5/18/2020

« on: September 12, 2020, 01:07:25 PM »

Not sure if accidental or not, but I can definitely explain why the fonts on that map are still in Akko. This product was only shown once on a random I2 in 2015 (which I have attached a screenshot of below). The reason this product is in Akko is most likely because TWC did not intend to update this product to have the new Roboto font and was most likely going to sit unused until it made its way to our I2s yesterday.

I wonder who posted that picture? I presume there's no video anywhere, but I have to wonder how long that IS2 showed the map. It says "Tomorrow's Forecast" and the time on the paused DVR shows 1:18p with the program being "Highway Thru Hell", so that had to have been on a weekend, but I keep wondering if it showed that instead of a "TOMORROW" text forecast, or in addition to the 3 text forecasts, or if it even showed "Today", "Tonight", and "Tomorrow" on maps instead of text. I'm guessing this was also a glitch, though it wasn't a nationwide glitch, as I know mine in "Saint Louis" didn't show those maps anytime back then. It makes me wonder if the WATT IS2s have multiple flavors built in to show forecast maps for different periods, but only the one without the maps is supposed to be used, with ones with the maps being accidently used on this one IS2 back in 2015, plus nationwide this past May. There's also a "Now" map built in, but was never used once, not even by accident, at least to my knowledge.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: August 05, 2020, 03:53:27 PM »

Here's another question, how do 2 "Weather Bulletin" screens affect the 1 minute flavor on the pre-WATT IS2? A normal 1 minute flavor went like this;
"Now", "Regional Doppler", "Radar/Satellite" (the "Metro Doppler" automatically overrode it when needed no matter what else was showing), "Local Forecast", "The Week Ahead". If there was 1 "Weather Bulletin" screen, all those products mentioned squeezed in afterward with shorter durations, but I can't imagine they could with 2 screens, especially since that's what the 90 second flavor looked like with 2 "Weather Bulletin" screens showing. Do you have any idea what an old IS2 1 minute flavor with 2 "Weather Bulletin" screens would look like?

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: August 05, 2020, 02:12:44 PM »

The I2 (and presumably also I1) will only display 3 alerts at most on the LF. It will not show more than whatever fits on that one alert page.

The pre-WATT I1 and I2 did display 2 "ALERTS" screens when needed (the I2 would always fit 3 on one screen, while the I1 would only fit 2 on one screen, unless only one line was needed for one of the alerts). Are you for certain that it won't show a second page for 4 or more alerts?

While it is true that the Pre-WATT LFs did have more than one page for alerts on both I1 and I2, the same cannot be said for the WATT LFs. I’m 100% sure I2 (and I1) only show one page for alerts (sadly).

Where you under more than 3 alerts at some point, and only saw one page with 3?

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: August 05, 2020, 01:52:38 PM »

The I2 (and presumably also I1) will only display 3 alerts at most on the LF. It will not show more than whatever fits on that one alert page.

The pre-WATT I1 and I2 did display 2 "ALERTS" screens when needed (the I2 would always fit 3 on one screen, while the I1 would only fit 2 on one screen, unless only one line was needed for one of the alerts). Are you for certain that it won't show a second page for 4 or more alerts?

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: August 05, 2020, 01:25:26 PM »

Here's something I've wondered about since "Weather All the Time" launched in November 2013, 3 alerts can fit on one "ALERTS" page, but if there are 4 alerts, could that many squeeze in in 1 page or would it expand to a second page? If it would expand to a second page, and the "Metro Radar" is showing, how would the LF lineup be affected? Would it skip the 7 day, or only show 1 descriptive forecast? The latter was normal if the "ALERTS" and "Metro Radar" were both showing when they had the "Summary" screen prior to October 2014, so back then, would it have been possible to have the "Metro Radar" jump right to the 7 day with 2 "ALERTS" screens and "Metro Radar" or show only 1 descriptive forecast, then the "Summary"(if 4 or more alerts don't fit on 1 screen)?

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Programming and Graphics / Re: AMHQ Early Cannned????

« on: June 19, 2020, 11:13:20 AM »

Not sure if this has anything to do with it or not, but I heard this morning that beginning on Monday, June 22, AMHQ will now air from 6-10am et. Not sure if this applies to the weekends or not, nor do I know how the other shows will be affected.

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General Emulator Discussion / Running the Simulator on continuous loop

« on: June 15, 2020, 12:53:07 PM »

Would it be possible to get the simulator to run on a continuous loop on some website without always running on my PC? I'm interested in running it continuously, just like a real "Weatherscan", but it wouldn't be good for my PC to never turn it off at some point.

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Local Forecast / Re: Classic LF Questions

« on: June 15, 2020, 09:16:26 AM »

Does anybody recognize the music in this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z50k3hEnGk I wasn't the one who posted that, but whoever this is says it played from 2004-2007, but it doesn't sound like anything I've heard, so now I'm wondering myself what song that person's playing on that video.

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Bug Reports / Re: Extended Forecast configuration error

« on: June 14, 2020, 05:00:06 PM »

Unless I'm crazy or something, AZZ543 does not appear in the county list from the scroll down menu. Instead, the "Greater Phoenix Area" is listed under AZZ023, which gives me that error message, as well as anything involving "Maricopa County", and some other counties listed. Does this mean I can't configure an "Extended Forecast" for Phoenix?

I added a Zone to the bottom when you're inside of Extended configuration. Select "543" in Arizona's list which I had labeled "Try This for Extended".

That worked, but now when I try to run the simulator, I get this error message:
"Run-time error '-2147220850 (8004028e)':

File Open Error

I'm sorry if I keep bothering you and for the double posting, but I got the problem to fit itself, but it just now dawned on me that I'm seeing several hours outdated information in the "Current Conditions" segments. Strangely, I'm seeing currently correct information on the "Local Airport Conditions" segment for the same location, "Phoenix Sky Harbor Int'l". I'm really sorry if I sound like an idiot (although I'm new to this), but is this a common problem?

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Bug Reports / Re: Extended Forecast configuration error

« on: June 12, 2020, 07:22:00 AM »

Unless I'm crazy or something, AZZ543 does not appear in the county list from the scroll down menu. Instead, the "Greater Phoenix Area" is listed under AZZ023, which gives me that error message, as well as anything involving "Maricopa County", and some other counties listed. Does this mean I can't configure an "Extended Forecast" for Phoenix?

I added a Zone to the bottom when you're inside of Extended configuration. Select "543" in Arizona's list which I had labeled "Try This for Extended".

That worked, but now when I try to run the simulator, I get this error message:
"Run-time error '-2147220850 (8004028e)':

File Open Error

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Bug Reports / Re: Extended Forecast configuration error

« on: June 11, 2020, 08:14:46 PM »

Unless I'm crazy or something, AZZ543 does not appear in the county list from the scroll down menu. Instead, the "Greater Phoenix Area" is listed under AZZ023, which gives me that error message, as well as anything involving "Maricopa County", and some other counties listed. Does this mean I can't configure an "Extended Forecast" for Phoenix?

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Bug Reports / Extended Forecast configuration error

« on: June 07, 2020, 12:30:50 PM »

When I try to build my configuration for my Phoenix area, when I enter "Greater Phoenix Area" as the county into the "Extended Forecast", it tells me this: "Data from NWS does not provide tabular Extended forecast data for this Zone number, please try another zone.", even though this page; https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?w0=t&w1=td&w2=hi&w3=sfcwind&w3u=1&w4=sky&w5=pop&w6=rh&w7=rain&w8=thunder&w10u=0&w13u=1&w14u=1&AheadHour=0&FcstType=digital&textField1=33.9246&textField2=-116.126&site=all&unit=0&dd=&bw=&AheadDay.x=63&AheadDay.y=16, suggests otherwise. Is this a bug, or am I overlooking something?

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Local Forecast / Re: Classic LF Questions

« on: May 31, 2020, 09:20:51 AM »

I’m not exactly sure when the narration for the extended forecast began on the XL. But, you would occasionally hear the generic “your extended forecast” even after it appeared. The extended forecast was only narrated when there was sufficient time, based on flavor type and the actual forecast of the next three days and the length of the narration required.

This is off-topic, and may not fall under the classic category, but does anybody reading this (whether it'd be you, Tyler, or somebody else) have an Atlanta and/or Pittsburgh IntelliStar :08/:38 LF from March 20 through late June 2008?  Those 2 areas had a beta flavor where the traffic products were shown right after the "Current Conditions" segments, and the "Getaway Forecast" was shown at the end of the LF after "The Week Ahead" product, but I've never seen that before, so I was hoping maybe you had an LF recorded that you never posted before (at least to my knowledge), or somebody else from one of those 2 areas reading this,