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

« on: October 17, 2016, 12:17:46 PM »

57º and cloudy. It was a much different story about 72 hours ago when my area got slammed by multiple strong and potentially tornadic thunderstorms. My weather radio picked up 27 warnings on Friday. 10 of those warnings were Tornado Warnings, which are quite rare to see in this region especially that many in a single day! 

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Local Forecast / Re: TWC Songs you've heard in other places

« on: October 08, 2016, 07:15:38 PM »

Heard a small snippet of "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" by The Temptations on the radio earlier today.

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

« on: October 02, 2016, 11:44:04 AM »

50º and overcast.

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General Discussion / Re: Sports Thread

« on: October 02, 2016, 11:43:18 AM »

My Seattle Mariners came dangerously close to making it to the playoffs, but after a heart-piercing defeat by Oakland last night (score was 9 to 8 in the 10th inning) their postseason hopes quickly crumbled to dust.   But overall, I'd say this was probably a pretty great season for the M's despite it now being 15 years since the last time they made the playoffs. Oh well, there's always next season.

Apologies for double-posting BTW.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: September 15, 2016, 02:48:03 PM »

Just thought I should point something out here I've noticed on TWC recently. During an LF, if the winds are calm, the text no longer says "Calm", but rather "N 0", presumably spelling out the word "no". The LDL, however, will still say "Calm". If there is a wind speed, the LF still reads "[number] mph" as before.

Example pics with the wind text circled:

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: September 01, 2016, 12:07:38 PM »

A new Storm Alert production track has debuted on the LFs today:

TWC IntelliSTAR 2 Jr + *NEW* Storm Alert Music- Astoria, OR- Sep. 1, 2016- 8:08AM PDT

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

« on: August 29, 2016, 11:26:13 AM »

58º Cloudy

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

« on: August 29, 2016, 11:25:18 AM »

Bought a 2 TB portable hard drive from Best Buy yesterday for about $90.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: TWCJim's Artwork

« on: August 22, 2016, 01:08:29 PM »

If TWC decided to bring back the Record Temperature product, here is my concept of what that might look like today on the IntelliSTAR 2 HD, XD and Jr:



FYI, that was an actual record high, set just last week. 

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

« on: August 09, 2016, 07:36:38 PM »

Bought a new pair of Sony MDR-G45 headphones for $14.79 today. My old pair was starting to fall apart.

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General Discussion / Re: Post your favorite YouTube videos

« on: August 07, 2016, 06:24:11 PM »

NOAA Weather Radio- Severe Thunderstorm Warning- Aug. 7, 2016 (Audio)

Something I put up today. The new NOAA Weather Radio voice can't seem to correctly say the warning text as follows, "...located near Nordman, or 30 miles west of Bonners Ferry." There's no such place as Nordman, Oregon! 

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

« on: August 07, 2016, 10:08:47 AM »

Grand Coulee, WA: 64º and cloudy. Had some rumbles of thunder here not too long ago. 

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Dave Schwartz Battling Cancer

« on: July 30, 2016, 10:24:41 PM »

Oh no! Dave was one of my favorite OCMs and I really enjoyed the way he presented on-air forecasts with a little sense of humor on the side. My thoughts are with his family and friends during this very difficult and emotional time. R.I.P. Mr. Schwartz.

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The Game Room / Re: Lie your Butt Off

« on: July 18, 2016, 12:20:26 PM »

I do not have a paid vacation from work coming up soon.

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Weatherscan Discussion / Re: Weatherscan Topic

« on: July 18, 2016, 12:18:07 PM »

While I'm quite surprised that Weatherscan still has some signs of life, I bet it'll probably be another few years or so before the channel ultimately fades into history. The facts of that are obvious, Weatherscan still runs on 12 or 13-year-old computers plus there has been a significant carriage drop of the channel over the past 5 years; e.g. Verizon FiOS as well as Comcast's inter-mountain and west coast markets. Despite all that, I myself was lucky to even see Weatherscan in person, of course back when I used to live in Spokane and had Comcast. Now that that's long gone, I can always look back at the many DVD recordings I have of the channel as well as listen to the entire music playlist.