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Everything Else TWC / Re: Weather Porn

« on: September 22, 2010, 09:24:12 PM »

you probably just gave this site a gazillion more hits once the search engines crawl it

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Anyone Shorter Than Jim Cantore?

« on: September 22, 2010, 09:23:26 PM »

Ok people saying 5 8 is short..... shut up I am 5 8!

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Anyone Shorter Than Jim Cantore?

« on: September 22, 2010, 06:12:11 PM »

I'm 5'7".

And I've got a gold fish.

You have goldfish?! Mmmmm How tall is Jim anyway?

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Site/Forum Performance

« on: September 22, 2010, 01:21:32 AM »

Just an update: Our host has given us access to a few more server resources and refunded us for a month. Keep us posted on if things are better

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: September 21, 2010, 09:24:20 PM »

Scary weather in Kittanning and Oil City tonight!
(taken from my dorm room)

No moon for you!

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: September 21, 2010, 09:23:21 PM »

I don't know why, but i think our ABC affiliate local news will be expanded to 4-7pm to fill in that 4pm hour Oprah is gone. They did that years ago when they expanded to a full hour at noon to take up for the cancellation of a soap opera (Port Charles i think it was) and recently they expanded the news 30 mins. from 5-7am to 4:30-7am.

Quite a few stations are expanding their broadcast hours. Its all a race for ratings, views and money. If you are the first station to start earlier you will get a hike in viewers and some of the those viewers will keep watching boosting ratings. Its also a clever way to manipulate the ratings so that you can advertise your newscast as being #1. Notice how sometimes on your DVR newscasts are named differently or start at odd times (ie 5:35)? It has to do with this

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Hurricane Central / Re: Hurricane Igor

« on: September 21, 2010, 09:19:00 PM »

I recall with Earl I think the NHC and Canadian Centre debated when Earl was no longer a hurricane. So disagreements can occur. However the WMO declared the NHC the primary center for tropical forecasts so to my knowledge staff members coordinate with foreign government to issue warnings. While its up to that local government to issue the warnings, I have yet to hear an area to go against NHC recommendations. Is that about right Patrick?

Igor deepened early today as models predicted. It is still a powerful system...

From the last NHC statement:
HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 85 MILES...140 KM...FROM
THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 520
MILES...835 KM.

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General Discussion / Re: What's Your Speedtest and Pingtest results?

« on: September 21, 2010, 09:07:54 PM »

Wireless router is out, so I am tethering with my Droid. Thing is, tethering will not allow you to visit https:// sites, and it is going SOOOOOOO slow.....

Is that a shared tower or something?

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General Discussion / Re: What is the last thing you bought?

« on: September 21, 2010, 09:06:22 PM »

Birthday cake mix, birthday candles, frosting, a candle shaped as a number 3 and a Kai-Lan plushy doll.



...it's my niece's 3rd birthday. *sniff sniff* she's growing up too fast. 

Yummy!!

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Hurricane Central / Re: 95L

« on: September 21, 2010, 09:05:27 PM »

Most models take this to at least a TS with a few showing rapid development. Neither are uncommon for this area

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General Discussion / Re: What is the last thing you bought?

« on: September 21, 2010, 04:36:51 PM »

16gb iPad

Geesh, I wish I was in your shoes about now.

Broke? 

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: September 21, 2010, 04:36:00 PM »

Well hopefully when Oprah is discontinued next year, they can put Millionaire at 4pm.

Oh I highly doubt that. The networks aren't going to risk loosing that huge talk show audience by playing a game show in its place. You can almost certainly bet on seeing some other similar type of talk show in its place

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General Discussion / Re: What Type of Cell Phone Do You Have?

« on: September 21, 2010, 04:24:56 PM »

I've had the Motorola Droid since February and am in love with it (as well as Android).

Android really is a great OS. I am very interested in Winmo7 though. Looks promising as well

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Hurricane Central / Re: 95L

« on: September 21, 2010, 04:23:28 PM »

It might become Matthew in the near future. 

hehe I bet you would enjoy the name

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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
 
$$