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General Weather Chat / Southeast Drought Buster- Build an ark!

« on: September 27, 2010, 12:01:59 PM »

We need the rain but not all of this at once 

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Hurricane Central / Do you like the new hurricane sub forum?

« on: September 23, 2010, 01:00:49 AM »

Just a general survey to get a feel if you all enjoy this method for discussing tropical events rather than having a single general thread.

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Hurricane Central / Tropical Storm Matthew

« on: September 21, 2010, 10:03:19 AM »

433
WHXX01 KWBC 211307
CHGHUR
TROPICAL CYCLONE GUIDANCE MESSAGE
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
1307 UTC TUE SEP 21 2010
 
DISCLAIMER...NUMERICAL MODELS ARE SUBJECT TO LARGE ERRORS.
PLEASE REFER TO NHC OFFICIAL FORECASTS FOR TROPICAL CYCLONE
AND SUBTROPICAL CYCLONE INFORMATION.
 
ATLANTIC OBJECTIVE AIDS FOR
 
DISTURBANCE INVEST (AL952010) 20100921 1200 UTC
 
        ...00 HRS...   ...12 HRS...   ...24 HRS. ..   ...36 HRS...
        100921  1200   100922  0000   100922  1200   100923  0000
 
         LAT    LON     LAT    LON     LAT    LON     LAT    LON
BAMS    12.2N  62.8W   12.7N  65.1W   13.0N  67.7W   13.5N  70.4W
BAMD    12.2N  62.8W   12.5N  64.8W   12.7N  67.1W   12.9N  69.4W
BAMM    12.2N  62.8W   12.5N  64.9W   12.9N  67.4W   13.2N  69.8W
LBAR    12.2N  62.8W   12.8N  65.2W   13.4N  67.7W   13.8N  70.4W
SHIP        20KTS          26KTS          34KTS          49KTS
DSHP        20KTS          26KTS          34KTS          49KTS
 
        ...48 HRS...   ...72 HRS...   ...96 HRS. ..   ..120 HRS...
        100923  1200   100924  1200   100925  1200   100926  1200
 
         LAT    LON     LAT    LON     LAT    LON     LAT    LON
BAMS    13.6N  73.3W   14.4N  78.8W   15.7N  84.1W   17.0N  87.8W
BAMD    13.0N  71.9W   13.6N  77.1W   15.3N  82.3W   17.6N  86.5W
BAMM    13.5N  72.5W   14.3N  78.0W   15.8N  83.7W   17.3N  88.2W
LBAR    14.2N  73.5W   14.9N  80.0W   13.9N  85.6W   15.0N  87.8W
SHIP        66KTS          92KTS         109KTS         120KTS
DSHP        66KTS          92KTS         109KTS         120KTS
 
         ...INITIAL CONDITIONS...
LATCUR =  12.2N LONCUR =  62.8W DIRCUR = 275DEG SPDCUR =  12KT
LATM12 =  12.0N LONM12 =  60.4W DIRM12 = 275DEG SPDM12 =  12KT
LATM24 =  11.8N LONM24 =  58.0W
WNDCUR =   20KT RMAXWD =   60NM WNDM12 =   20KT
CENPRS = 1009MB OUTPRS = 1011MB OUTRAD =  150NM SDEPTH =   S
RD34NE =    0NM RD34SE =    0NM RD34SW =    0NM RD34NW =   0NM
 
$$

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Everything Else TWC / Microsoft Surface Debuts on The Weather Channel

« on: September 16, 2010, 01:23:15 AM »

The Microsoft Surface, that mystical superawesomeextravaganzagiantbigass table has now become a focal point on Lightning Rod! So far its more of a multi thousand dollar twitter client but I for one can't wait to see what comes out of this!!

Microsoft Surface Premiers on TWC

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Hurricane Central / Hurricane Julia

« on: September 11, 2010, 10:40:58 PM »

Honestly it looks to be a TD already imo.


SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATES THAT SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED
WITH A VIGOROUS TROPICAL WAVE AND ASSOCIATED LOW PRESSURE ABOUT 400
MILES EAST-SOUTHEAST OF THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS ARE GRADUALLY
BECOMING BETTER ORGANIZED.  IF CURRENT TRENDS CONTINUE...A TROPICAL
DEPRESSION COULD FORM DURING THE NEXT DAY OR TWO AS THIS SYSTEM
MOVES TOWARD THE WEST-NORTHWEST AT 10 TO 15 MPH.  THERE IS A HIGH
CHANCE...70 PERCENT...OF THIS SYSTEM BECOMING A TROPICAL CYCLONE
DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS. 

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Everything Else TWC / Millions Turn to The Weather Channel For Hurricane Earl Coverage

« on: September 11, 2010, 01:42:52 AM »

TWC Reaches 42 Million Viewers and Posts Highest Reach Among the News Networks for Sept. 1-3

The network posted an average A25-54 delivery of 356 (+314%) on Sept. 2. Viewership peaked at 7:15 a.m. on Sept. 3 with an A25-54 quarter hour delivery of 531.

TWC ranked No. 1 among the news networks in A18-49 during the Morning daypart on Sept. 3

In addition to posting its best page view day ever during tropical activity on Sept. 2, TWC digital properties (weather.com, Mobile, Desktop) had its tenth best page view day ever.
weather.com had 11 million unique visitors and  70 million page views on Sept. 2, which ranked as the fourth biggest traffic day forweather.com during a major hurricane (behind Ike, Rita and Katrina) according to SiteCatalyst. From Aug. 31- Sept. 3, the website also saw an increase in video streams of 778 percent from prior week averages.

Hurricane Earl also generated record-breaking page view days for The Weather Channel for iPad application, resulting in three of the top five page view days for iPad so far.

This is why.... TWC will always hype a storm and they will keep pimping their apps and weather.com

TWC must be doing something right to attract viewers because these numbers are staggering for a storm that never even made landfall.

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Hurricane Central / Hurricane Karl

« on: September 10, 2010, 02:49:53 AM »

Looks like a potential GOM system soon

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Hurricane Central / Hurricane Igor

« on: September 08, 2010, 11:26:52 AM »

000
WTNT31 KNHC 081459
TCPAT1
BULLETIN
TROPICAL STORM IGOR ADVISORY NUMBER   1
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL     AL112010
1100 AM AST WED SEP 08 2010

...IGOR FORMS IN THE FAR EASTERN TROPICAL ATLANTIC OCEAN...TROPICAL
STORM WATCH ISSUED FOR SOUTHERN CAPE VERDE ISLANDS...


SUMMARY OF 1100 AM AST...1500 UTC...INFORMATION
-----------------------------------------------
LOCATION...13.7N 23.5W
ABOUT 95 MI...155 KM SE OF THE SOUTHERNMOST CAPE VERDE ISLANDS
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...40 MPH...65 KM/HR
PRESENT MOVEMENT...W OR 265 DEGREES AT 8 MPH...13 KM/HR
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1005 MB...29.68 INCHES

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Hurricane Central / Tropical Storm Hermine

« on: September 05, 2010, 02:56:48 AM »

BEGIN
NHC_ATCF
invest_al902010.invest
FSTDA
R
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040
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201009050513
NONE
NOTIFY=ATRP
END
INVEST, AL, L, , , , , 90, 2010, DB, O, 2010090500, 9999999999, , , , , , METWATCH, , AL902010
AL, 90, 2010090406, , BEST, 0, 184N, 958W, 20, 1009, DB, 0, , 0, 0, 0, 0,
AL, 90, 2010090412, , BEST, 0, 186N, 958W, 20, 1009, DB, 0, , 0, 0, 0, 0,
AL, 90, 2010090418, , BEST, 0, 189N, 958W, 20, 1009, DB, 0, , 0, 0, 0, 0,
AL, 90, 2010090500, , BEST, 0, 193N, 958W, 20, 1007, DB, 0, , 0, 0, 0, 0,

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Programming and Graphics / AL Roker Should Be on Weekends Too

« on: September 04, 2010, 04:17:04 AM »

Weekend morning shows get higher ratings anyway! At least rerun WUWA clips or something! 

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Hurricane Central / Tropical Storm Gaston

« on: August 31, 2010, 01:38:05 AM »

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Hurricane Central / Tropical Storm Fiona

« on: August 26, 2010, 04:07:18 PM »

Looking very healthy today!

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Hurricane Central / Hurricane Earl- Storm Train

« on: August 23, 2010, 03:52:03 PM »

 African storm train is in full swing!

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Site/Forum Performance

« on: August 22, 2010, 05:40:20 AM »

Please rate on a scale of 1-10 (with 1 being Poor and 10 being Excellent) how well the site and forum have been performing for you.

Some factors to consider:
Page load speed
Audio/Video load speeds
Search speeds
Latency
Database/mySQL errors


Thank you very much for your input!!

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Hurricane Central / Hurricane Danielle

« on: August 20, 2010, 12:28:33 PM »

Models rapidly intensify this and I expect this to be our next D storm in time. Looks for now to be a fish