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General Weather Chat / Re: What's the weather in your area?

« on: December 10, 2011, 07:26:32 PM »

36°F with clear skies. Going down to 27°F tonight, the coldest it's been in 257 days! 

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: December 09, 2011, 05:23:43 PM »

Just thought I'd ask this which may have been answered already but, does anyone know when TWC will start using Christmas music in the LF's? I heard stuff around that it was supposed to happen today.

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Hazardous Weather / Dec 7-8th: High Wind Event for the Northeast

« on: December 08, 2011, 02:51:45 PM »

As for a nor'easter that seem like it couldn't do much harm, it did well more than expected. This is my perspective of this incredible high wind storm. It first started out as a warm calm wet night. The wind was advisory was already put into effect, although the air was completely still. When I went to sleep around 11:30PM EST, the wind was still calm, there was light rain and the pressure was around 993.5hpa. The strange thing is, according to local airport data, right around midnight, the wind suddenly increased, and the pressure instantly, over 30 minutes, dropped to 988hpa. The wind kicked up, from a 0mph wind, to a sustained 41mph NNW wind along with gusts up to 70mph in some parts of the island. That's tropical storm force winds! Now most of you are thinking well ok, what's the big deal? Well I'll tell you this, where I live, there are a lot of very tall Norway Spruces about 70-120ft tall. If you get a 65mph gust, at the tops of those trees would probably be about a 70-75mph wind. Those tree bend to their tipping points and it's actually very scary. There was also damage caused by this high wind event. I saw tree limbs down, garbage pales some 10-20ft away from where they should be, and outdoor Christmas decorations knocked down. The strong winds didn't last long though, reaching their peak intensity at around 2:00am. I love high wind storms because it's amazing to watch the trees move greatly in the high winds. The storm only dropped to 988hpa, just imagine if the storm was any stronger. I was up for the worst of it too. Compared to other nor'easters, this would be in the top 5 of the past decade. It was nothing like the March 13, 2010 nor'easter in which that one brought hurricane force wind gusts up to 80mph and the winds also lasted longer. Nor'easters are very under rated storms. For example, we lost power for 3 days here on Long Island because of the March 2010 nor'easter, which in fact, was weaker (in terms of pressure) than this storm. Anyway, I believe nor'easters can pack a powerful punch just as powerful as a hurricane can. I'll update this post when the NWS releases more information on the winds of this storm. Thanks for reading!
*NEW INFO: It appears that Westhampton, NY recorded a wind gust of 69mph!

Info from NWS:

***********************peak wind gust***********************

Location Max wind time/date comments
                        gust of
                         mph measurement

Connecticut

... Fairfield County...
   Bridgeport Airport 45 310 am 12/08 ASOS
   Danbury Airport 36 126 am 12/08 ASOS

New Jersey

... Bergen County...
   Teterboro 41 621 am 12/08 ASOS

... Essex County...
   Newark Airport 43 442 am 12/08 ASOS
   Caldwell Airport 39 615 am 12/08 ASOS

New York

... New York County...
   Central Park 39 250 am 12/08 ASOS

... Queens County...
   Kennedy Airport 54 228 am 12/08 ASOS
   NYC/La Guardia 48 248 am 12/08 ASOS

... Suffolk County...
   Westhampton 69 347 am 12/08 ASOS
   Patchogue 62 215 am 12/08 trained spotter
   Shoreham 61 222 am 12/08 trained spotter
   Islip Airport 56 312 am 12/08 ASOS

... Westchester County...
   Hastings-On-Hudson 49 1133 PM 12/07 public


Airport data retrieved from: http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KISP/2011/12/8/DailyHistory.html

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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: IntelliStar 2 Beta Launch

« on: December 07, 2011, 02:34:48 PM »

I would like to see the climate screen and/or precip screen, if anyone has a video.  Thanks!

No problem, it's already been up:

LOT8's: Climate Data Screen 12-5-11 3:28PM

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Winter Weather / Re: Winter Storm Thread: 2011-12 Season

« on: December 06, 2011, 08:49:13 PM »

Most weather forecasts I looked at tonight from TWC and NWS have said no snow for me. Typical... 

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Your Local Weather / Re: Long Island Weather

« on: December 06, 2011, 08:32:01 PM »

... Record annual precipitation set at Newark NJ...

So far today... Newark NJ has received 0.13 inches of rainfall. This
brings the yearly total to 65.53 inches... which breaks the previous
record of 65.50 inches set in 1983. Records have been kept at this
site since 1931.

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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: IntelliStar 2 Beta Launch

« on: December 06, 2011, 02:29:55 PM »

Well, the climate data screen is now gone just as I expected 

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General Weather Chat / Re: 25 Coldest Cities in the United States

« on: December 05, 2011, 10:40:14 PM »

I don't necessarily agree with this article. For one, they titled it "America's 25 Coldest Cities", meaning that they would have to take the overall mean temperature for the whole year, not just for the winter, two, why did they use winter 2009 in particular for Fairbanks, AK, why didn't they just use the overall average winter temperature like they did with the rest? And three, if they were to use the overall mean temperature for winter, they would use December, January, and February because those are particularly the coldest months of the year and it's the official meteorological winter so I don't know why they included March in there for "warmest day". I just don't agree with the article. I wonder why Barrow, AK wasn't mentioned in there. I guess when they mean "city", the actually mean city because Barrow isn't a city. That's the only thing I could understand about this article. The article, for the most part is correct, I just don't like the way they did it.

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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: IntelliStar 2 Beta Launch

« on: December 05, 2011, 08:10:08 PM »

I think it's because there's no narrations. The precip screen comes on as well. They come on everytime the narrations have been turned off for whatever reason lately.

The narrations have came back, at least on my IS2.

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The Game Room / Re: Rhyme Game

« on: December 05, 2011, 07:25:21 PM »

Sam

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The Game Room / Re: "In my pants" Game

« on: December 05, 2011, 07:24:08 PM »

Looks like I'm gonna have a white christmas in my pants.

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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: IntelliStar 2 Beta Launch

« on: December 05, 2011, 03:00:34 PM »

Looks like the Islip IS2 just got the Climate Data screen! 

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General Weather Chat / Re: What's the weather in your area?

« on: December 05, 2011, 02:22:26 PM »

53°F with 16 straight hours of fog and continuing!

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General Weather Chat / Re: What's the weather in your area?

« on: December 03, 2011, 10:29:59 AM »

44° Sunny 

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Your Local Weather / Re: Long Island Weather

« on: December 02, 2011, 07:38:13 PM »

... Meteorological fall 2011...

The months of September... October and November make up the
meteorological fall season. This past fall was warmer and wetter
then average across the tri-state region. In addition... there was an
unusual late October snowfall. Normal refers to the average fall
temperatures/precipitation over the last 30 years. Here are some
specifics.

... Temperature...

Location fall 2011 normal rank
                 average temp average temp
Central Park NY 59.7 57.5 13th (tied with 1948)
LaGuardia Airport 60.3 58.5 11th (tied with 1985)
JFK Airport 59.5 57.5 4th
Islip NY 58.5 55.0 1st
Newark NJ 60.1 57.2 4th (tied with 1994)
Bridgeport CT 58.9 55.5 1st

... Precipitation...

Location fall 2011 normal
                 precipitation precipitation rank

Central Park NY 18.53 12.70 9th
LaGuardia Airport 15.02 10.92 9th
JFK Airport 11.85 10.42 18th
Islip NY 13.21 11.04 9th
Newark NJ 17.46 11.07 3rd
Bridgeport CT 13.11 10.51 16th

... Snowfall...

Location fall 2011 normal
                     snowfall snowfall rank

Central Park NY 2.9 0.3 9th (tied with 1995)
LaGuardia Airport 1.7 0.3 8th (tied with 1952)
JFK Airport 1.5 0.2 5th
Islip NY 0.3 0.6 5th
Newark NJ 5.2 0.4 3rd
Bridgeport CT 4.0 0.7 3rd

This makes this past meteorological fall for Islip the warmest fall on record.