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General Discussion / Re: Happy Birthday Mike! (Mike M)

« on: December 27, 2011, 12:25:48 PM »

Did you get any gifts?

I am curious. Do you usually get birthday gifts or do you get them early on Christmas?

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General Discussion / Re: NBC Weather Plus Discussion

« on: December 27, 2011, 12:24:14 PM »

Too bad there hasn't been a push by NBC/TWC to replace these channels with WeatherScan. Pretty much a waste of an opportunity there. Who knows what they want to do with that product!

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General Discussion / Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS

« on: December 27, 2011, 12:22:19 PM »

Cool to see a lot of you got some really neat stuff!! Hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas!

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: December 27, 2011, 12:20:29 PM »

Oh boy! Looks like tomorrow night's winds are going to be monstorous. I just took a look at a few models. I wouldn't be surprised if the NWS issues a high wind warning. Might see gusts up to 70 mph. TWC is only predicting sustained winds of only 29 mph, which brings me back to the night of Dec 7th, where TWC predicted winds of 28 mph but we had sustained winds at around 40 mph.

What is the criteria for a wind warning up there? Not sure it would reach warning criteria but easily looks like an advisory

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TWC Today News / LAT48s Winter Edition

« on: December 20, 2011, 10:56:27 PM »

To celebrate the first day of winter and the holidays we are having a Local Across the 48s on December 22nd at 7:58pm ET. For those of you not familiar with one of these the concept is pretty simple. We want everyone possible around the country to record their local forecast (in HD/SD or both!) at the exact same time. It's a fun way to see each others local forecasts as well as weather conditions around the country. It is preferred that you record your forecast with a tuner but any type of camera will work as long as background noise is kept to a minimum and there is no shaking. Also try to submit your videos in .avi format. Not required but it helps me out. Thanks!! Looking forward to the submissions. 

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Holiday 2011 LAT48s?

« on: December 20, 2011, 01:51:32 AM »

Can't do it, some of us still have finals :/

Wow that close before Christmas?? That blows

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: December 20, 2011, 01:50:23 AM »

* beanboy89 is now a graduate of Millersville University!

CONGRATS!!! Is your degree in awesomeness?

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Holiday 2011 LAT48s?

« on: December 18, 2011, 08:00:16 PM »

22nd at 7:58pm ET sounds like a plan

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: December 18, 2011, 01:53:26 AM »

Ain't nothing like trying to fix your weather station at 10 o'clock at night in 30 degree weather 

Is there much to fix? About the only thing i've had to do in 4 years is clean the bird poo out of the rain gauge

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: December 17, 2011, 03:30:19 PM »

Winter (which hasn't officially started yet) is pretty much the same here so far (Texas/Oklahoma).  I feel like it's actually been colder than normal: highs anywhere in the 40s to 50s with maybe a 60-degree day or two thrown in there.

Both the southeast and northeast have already had a major snowstorm.  I guess the northeast will typcially see much more snowfall by this time of year , but isn't the southeast experiencing pretty normal conditions right now?

Winter sucks here in the east until we can get a decent pattern change

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Samantha Mohr

« on: December 15, 2011, 05:56:52 AM »

Though I'm glad to see that Martin is taking this so well. I was expecting him to like... cry or something. lol

I died a little inside 

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: December 14, 2011, 11:12:29 AM »

I am not in a broadcast curriculum.  It is strictly meteorology, which also surprises me that they don't have a class for strictly broadcasting.  Like I said before, several alum said they didn't learn to forecasting until an internship or their first job, kind of upsetting if you ask me.

So its an operational curriculum right?

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Samantha Mohr

« on: December 14, 2011, 11:06:51 AM »

I wasn't allowed to say anything but suppose its ok now. According to JimC she was let go. He told me this in person back in October so I am assuming she stayed to finish out her contract. Right now according to her personal facebook she is "freelancing"

Wishing her all the best out there!

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: December 13, 2011, 09:57:23 PM »

I got accepted into Atlanta Technical College, I start my Spring semester in January! 

Congrats

Congrats on the college entrance!

I just received word that I have been accepted as a weather intern for one of my local television stations this summer!  So excited, I can't even handle it.  Haha.

Speaking of that, I just found out a couple weeks ago that my meteorology program at my school does not offer forecasting courses.  Some of the alum have said they didn't learn until their first job or at their internship; I'm definitely going to have my eyes and ears open with this internship.  I mean, really?  You're not going to teach future meteorologists how to forecast?  Is this normal?  Do you just take what you've learned about meteorology and the atmosphere and then apply it to the forecasting models?

Operational and broadcast meteorology are different but I thought for sure a broadcast curriculum would include some basic forecasting. Most of the ones I have looked at do. Very interesting none are included at your school.

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Holiday 2011 LAT48s?

« on: December 13, 2011, 03:44:58 AM »

I like the date!