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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: January 02, 2011, 11:25:39 PM »

March used to suck when I was in public school. No holidays and just a rather blah month.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: January 02, 2011, 01:51:06 AM »

I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday break!  Let's just try to keep our spirits up as we entered the most depressing month of the year according to statistics due to the hangover from the holidays and the bad weather.

Well thats a great way to enter the new year

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

« on: January 02, 2011, 12:46:23 AM »

Drizzle and warm

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General Discussion / Re: Happy New Year 2011!!!

« on: January 02, 2011, 12:46:04 AM »

Since I  and many others were not in a capacity to type last night I will wish everyone a belated Happy New Year

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General Weather Chat / Re: January 7-8 Event?

« on: January 02, 2011, 12:38:07 AM »

Seems to be a possible system around the 7th then a Miller B type storm for the weekend that could wallop New England. More threats for the mid atlantic in the weeks following. Looks like the cold air is sticking around too.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: The Weather Channel Breaks Records over Christmas Blizzard 2010

« on: January 02, 2011, 12:36:38 AM »

The Weather Channel used to get a lot of viewers until movies,storm stories, ETC took over and they do more programing instead of weather now but i must say they have been doing better about cutting out the programing when bad weather is hitting now   

You do realize that the reason they show movies, storm stories, etc is because they get MORE viewers (or just as many) as live programming. 

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Hurricane Central / Re: 2011 Hurricane Season Outlook Released

« on: January 02, 2011, 12:35:05 AM »

Hurricane forecasts are pointless. All they do is stir up the media and the public. Then you get false sense of security when people hear things like "below normal" forecast. Even last year I have heard a lot of people say "oh those scientists predicted a huge hurricane season and we got nothing". All it takes is for one big storm to hit the coast.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: TWC now an LLC

« on: January 02, 2011, 12:31:33 AM »

Seems like they have been one for quite some time. "a hybrid business entity having certain characteristics of both a corporation and a partnership or sole proprietorship (depending on how many owners there are"

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General Weather Chat / January 7-8 Event?

« on: December 31, 2010, 03:25:57 PM »

Another east coast storm? 

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General Discussion / Re: Gas prices in your area

« on: December 30, 2010, 10:30:16 PM »

$3.09-$3.16. I've heard on the news that gas prices may rise to at least $5.00 by early 2012 due to the high demand. 

In California perhaps

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: December 30, 2010, 10:29:12 PM »

Cold really is just my excuse to be lazy and relax in the winter I rather enjoy a quiet day inside keeping warm on a frigid winter day.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: December 30, 2010, 11:04:35 AM »

I really don't care for Carl Parker. He's not an entertaining OCM.

I like Carl but dont care for his climate stuff.


Vortex2 was only a two year project.  I doubt we see another one for at least 10 years. You can bet your butt that TWC will milk it and rerun stuff from it this year

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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: IntelliStar 2 Beta Launch

« on: December 30, 2010, 11:00:38 AM »

I still don't get why the IS2 has the old icons.

It's been mentioned in this forum before.  The icons used in the HD Star were originally developed for HD.  However, they were also used in SD, but the results didn't look as expected in standard definition, which is why they were changed to the icons currently used in both the SD feed (national & Intellistar) and the national HD feed.  However, since this particular set of icons was developed specifically for HD, that's the set that is being used for the HD Star.

From what I was told thats not quite it. The original icons were used on SD before the HD launch. The new icons were launched but apparently look terrible on the HD STAR so they just used the old ones

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: December 30, 2010, 10:56:25 AM »

Wow sorry to hear 2010 wasn't great for a lot of you. It went pretty well for me. I hope 2011 is just as good for everyone

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Where is Jim Cantore?

« on: December 30, 2010, 10:55:26 AM »

Hundreds of thousands to even millions of people watch TWC just for Jim. If he was gone, the ratings would plummet so much, that TWC would as many ratings as in the early 1980's.

I highly doubt they tune in JUST for him. Thats a little extreme saying that