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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Kyla Grogan

« on: February 21, 2013, 04:33:06 PM »

And you have missed the point ENTIRELY that television is a visual medium. If you find smart, attractive people so hard to cope with, perhaps you should get your news and weather information from the radio. Then if someone was attractive you wouldn't have to be so horribly accosted by their beauty LOL!
It's fun to watch pretty people on TV. Their appearance is part of their ability to communicate and yes, draw in an audience and in turn possibly boost ratings. Looks will always be a factor when you're dealing with a visual medium.  Anyone who gets into that business is well aware of it and I think it's smart of the OCMs to evolve their look, stay current, it's part of their profession and they know that when they choose to work in TV.
If you want to gripe that the information given is sub par that's one thing but to complain that it's wrong to put attractive people on television is flat out ridiculous.   

Everything in bold once again was EXACTLY the point of both of the posts I made. I may not have worded it the way you like, but that's what I was trying to get across to you in the first place. I don't understand why you keep ranting on about me being offended by a female OCM having both beauty and brains you're not making any sense there since I never said that.  You're right she can dress any way she likes and as beautiful as she likes, again I don't care. I don't think beauty alone should speak for the OCM, the smarts she has should too.

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Kyla Grogan

« on: February 21, 2013, 01:08:54 PM »

It says further up on this page that she went to Boston University which is one of those schools in the "Most Competitive" categories.  That means that her IQ is likely higher than yours and mine combined.  I'm pretty sure they don't have a looks section on the college application to get in there.  I sure as hell couldn't have gotten in.  On her page for facebook it says she's also in the process of getting a meteorology degree.  So just how many credentials does a person need to have to satisfy you?  I think you're ruling out the possibility that someone can be smart and beautiful at the same time. Granted, it doesn't happen often but it certainly happens!  If TWC found someone who is both we should be so lucky!

You missed the point ENTIRELY. I never said she wasn't smart, she probably is smarter than me when it comes to meteorology. Great! I'm just an amateur anyway. I commend and appreciate her for wanting to earn her meteorology degree to further her education in the field. My point was TWC doesn't give a crap about how smart she is, their concern is whether or not she has the sex appeal to hold/build an audience just like the rest of the female OCMs. Having a degree and being knowledgeable to weather/meteorology is a bonus for them.

If you want a perfect example of this, look at three of our veteran female OCMs: Kelly Cass, Kim Cunningham (Perez), and heck even Vivian Brown. All three have changed appearances, not modestly, but radically. Kim is the best example of the three, she's hardly recognizable to me at times.

Also, I don't want to make it out to seem like this only happens at TWC, it happens on a local level as well. At our CBS affiliate we used to have a female weather forecaster who was the chief met named Dagmar Midcap. She was voted "Sexiest Weathergirl in Atlanta" and boy did that station run on that sex appeal angle to drum up ratings. I guess I can't blame them, they were obviously desperate since they were (and still are today) in the toilet with their ratings. They started plastering up numerous billboards and TV ads all based on how she look instead of what she knew. After she left, they had to find their new Dagmar Midcap to bring in ratings and they found her (quickly) with Markina Brown. Once again, she met the eye candy criteria, her meteorological credentials were just a bonus. Just like Kyla, I don't doubt Markina's expertise in weather, but the ad makes it clear that shouldn't be the only thing you should love about her.

Atlanta's Newest Meteorologist, Markina Brown

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Kyla Grogan

« on: February 21, 2013, 06:55:50 AM »

So you don't like Jen because she had a baby (the nerve!) I guess that lets out the rest of the female OCM's too since they all either have kids or are pregnant, except Kyla and Stephanie.  You also don't like it when gorgeous women with long legs wear a skirt 2 inches above their knee.   
Have you considered that perhaps you just don't like women at all and maybe that is the problem?
I feel sorry for these OCM's who have to put up with wackos who have something to say about every move they make when they're doing a great job working crazy hours to keep the public informed.  Kyla is gorgeous, great to watch and a class act all the way. She has my seal of approval!     

I think you're blowing what he said out of proportion. I didn't see what Kyla was wearing, so I'm not going to pass judgement on that, but we all know the female OCMs at TWC are seen as nothing more than sex objects. The hell with your credentials, as long as you pass the T & A test you're fine.

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

« on: February 20, 2013, 10:45:23 PM »

41, Partly Cloudy

There was some sleet pellets mixed with rain across the metro area today. That was unexpected, but then again our DPs are currently in the low teens, earlier they got as low as the single digits.

...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SATURDAY
AFTERNOON...

Wouldn't be surprised to see another one issued for Monday as well.

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The Game Room / Re: Ban the Person above you

« on: February 20, 2013, 10:33:22 PM »

Banned for being fair enough. I would be lying if I said i didn't feel the same way.

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The Game Room / Re: Ban the Person above you

« on: February 20, 2013, 09:40:24 PM »

Banned for not even for potentially historical events? (That' about the only time I record anything in relation to TWC now)

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The Game Room / Re: "In my pants" Game

« on: February 20, 2013, 09:39:03 PM »

Yahoo! has a new design layout today imp.

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Winter Weather / Re: 2012-2013 Winter Outlook

« on: February 20, 2013, 09:02:03 PM »

Oooo! That's pretty! This is one heck of a snowstorm taking over a large real estate of the county!

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

« on: February 20, 2013, 07:59:38 PM »

Keep ur Head Up by Andy Grammar was on the radio this morning.

I heard that song when I went to the bank a couple of weeks ago.

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General Discussion / Re: Commercials You Loathe

« on: February 19, 2013, 06:55:59 PM »

I don't mind the Empire jingle, sometimes I subconsciously find myself singing the jingle. How could you loathe it?it's so catchy and easy to remember.

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Local Forecast / Re: IntelliStar I and II Update planned

« on: February 18, 2013, 09:55:17 PM »

That topic has been taken off of weatheraffiliate.com. Either the update has been delayed, or has been cancelled. Hopefully the latter, since the IntelliStar graphics are fine just they way they are. We wouldn't want the IS's to be too graphics to be too "high tech"/cluttered.

Couldn't disagree more. I get your argument about not wanting the IS to be cluttered, I don't either, but I'm baffled about not wanting it to be high tech. That's exactly what it should be and it never has been imo. Looking back, it seems like most of the IS's hype-factor was all because of that crappy HiRAD technology (and the discontinued traffic products) which varies from being OK to downright terrible. I remember some of the complaints about the IS2 was how they made a lot of the animations/transitions all overly fancy and whatnot, we live in a superficial world filled with millions of extremely short attention spans and that's what they like to see.

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

« on: February 16, 2013, 03:45:42 PM »

Popcorn snowstorms across TN/AL! Lookin' good.

We've reached our high of 44 today, now we dropped back to 40 degrees with mostly cloudy skies/windy conditions. Winds are NW at 23 mph (Gusting to 29 mph) Our wetbulb temp is 31.3 degrees so any precip if we manage to see any should fall in the form of snow or a rain/snow at the worst.

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

« on: February 16, 2013, 12:45:15 PM »

42, Partly Cloudy
DP - 16

I hope the RAP model is right about those convective snow showers later today/tonight moving through here. That's all I'm asking for is some little flakeage. 

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General Weather Chat / Re: Potential Presidents' Day Weekend Snow for Southern Cities

« on: February 15, 2013, 05:06:23 PM »

Verbatim at 850mb they might could, but 2m temps are way too warm. However if any part of FL sees a flake before I do out of this, I'm gonna pull my hair out of my head. 

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General Weather Chat / Potential Presidents' Day Weekend Snow for Southern Cities

« on: February 15, 2013, 09:03:19 AM »

Two pieces of energy, one diving in from the north and another digging in from the south are expected to potentially phase together to develop a SLP off the SE coast. Interestingly enough, Looking at the RAP model (very short model for those who don't know) it has the southern energy digging much further south than most other mdoels do and if it that happens and it manages to phase with the northern energy developing a SLP in the Gulf, this very minor event could translate into a major event, however that's just speculation on the way the RAP seems to be heading, but we'll see.

Here's what some of the NWS offices are saying in their AFDs.

Atlanta, GA

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THE NEXT ISSUE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR WINTRY PRECIP ON SATURDAY.

BOTH THE GFS AND NAM HAVE A BULLSEYE OF OVER 1 INCH SOUTH OF
CSG BY 18Z SATURDAY. 21Z SREF PROBS KEPT THE PROBABILITY OF MEASURABLE SNOW
MUCH FARTHER NORTH...BUT THE NEW 03Z RUN JUST COMING IN LENDS MUCH
MORE CREDENCE TO THE NAM AND GFS SOLUTIONS WITH A SWATH OF 60-70
PERCENT MEASURABLE SNOW BETWEEN THE NORTHEAST MOUNTAIN AND CTJ AT
12Z SATURDAY

BETWEEN ATL AND CSG AT 15Z /THOUGH THESE PROBS
ARE FOR LESS THAN 1 INCH ACCUM/. OF COURSE...THE VERY STRONG CAA
WILL BE COMPETING WITH RETREATING MOISTURE. VERY STEEP LAPSE RATES
FROM 18-21Z ON SATURDAY WILL LEAD TO A VERY CONVECTIVELY-DRIVEN
EVENT WITH WIDESPREAD COLD AIR STRATOCU OR PERHAPS EVEN COLD AIR
CU...BUT THE DEPTH OF CONVECTION WILL BE VERY DEPENDENT ON MOISTURE
AVAILABILITY AS THE UPPER TROUGH AXIS WILL BE MOVING INTO THE AREA

WITH THE EXPECTED CONVECTION...IT IS LIKELY THAT AT LEAST
SOME SNOW WILL REACH THE GROUND ACROSS MOST OF THE CWA IN A
BRIEF WINDOW WHERE INCOMING COLD TEMPS WILL LINE UP BEST WITH THE MOISTURE.
HOWEVER...IN CONVECTION...SURFACE TEMPS DO NOT HAVE TO BE QUITE AS COLD FOR
SNOW TO REACH THE GROUND...SO EXPECT THAT SNOW WILL FALL AT TEMPS IN
THE MID AND POSSIBLY UPPER 30S. THIS SAID...HAVE BROUGHT THE
RAIN/SNOW MIX DOWN TO EXTREME SOUTHWEST ZONES FOR SATURDAY
MORNING...WITH ALL SNOW AS FAR SOUTH AS A FRANKLIN TO MCDONOUGH TO
ATHENS LINE.

MOISTURE IS JUST NOT REALLY DEEP ENOUGH BUT MOISTURE TRENDS WILL
HAVE TO BE MONITORED.
- I don't know about you guys, but when I hear convection and snow in the same paragraph I get very excited! I've seen what that's capable of doing. 

Columbia, SC

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.SHORT TERM /6 PM THIS EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT/...
THE MODELS CONTINUED TO SHOW DEEP UPPER TROUGHING DEVELOPING SATURDAY WITH
ENHANCED MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH A SHORTWAVE TROUGH. MOISTURE AND
INSTABILITY ASSOCIATED WITH THE TROUGH MAY SUPPORT PRECIPITATION.
THE NAM AND ESPECIALLY THE GFS HAVE TRENDED WITH HIGHER POPS.
THE NAM POPS WERE ALSO SUPPORTED BY THE SREF GUIDANCE WHERE MOST
MEMBERS INDICATED A GRADIENT OF POPS RANGING FROM NEAR 40 PERCENT IN
THE NORTHEAST SECTION TO LESS THAN 20 PERCENT IN THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA.
ALL OF THE MODELS INDICATED GREATER MOISTURE AND LIFT IN THE NORTHEAST PART CLOSER
TO LOW PRESSURE THAT SHOULD DEVELOP OFF THE COAST IN RESPONSE TO
THE STRONG MID- LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROUGH. PRECIPITATION TYPE IS A
PROBLEM. THE NAM AND GFS FORECAST OF 1000-500 MB THICKNESSES AND
H85 TEMPERATURES SUPPORT SNOW. HOWEVER...THE MODEL TEMPERATURE
PROFILES INDICATE RAIN UNLESS SIGNIFICANT WET-BULB COOLING OCCURS
WHICH IS QUESTIONABLE BECAUSE OF EXPECTED LIGHT AMOUNTS. SOIL
TEMPERATURES ARE RELATIVELY WARM AND WITH MARGINAL NEAR-SURFACE
TEMPERATURES LITTLE OR NO ACCUMULATION SHOULD OCCUR. ANY
PRECIPITATION SHOULD END FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST SATURDAY
NIGHT AS LOW PRESSURE OFF THE COAST LIFTS FARTHER AWAY FROM THE
AREA. THE GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES APPEAR TOO WARM SATURDAY BASED ON
THE COLD UPPER- LEVEL TROUGH AND EXPECTED CLOUDINESS.
Raleigh, NC

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.SHORT TERM /SATURDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT/...
AS OF 330 AM FRIDAY...

...POTENTIAL FOR WINTER WEATHER INCREASING ACROSS PORTIONS OF
CENTRAL NC SATURDAY EVENING/NIGHT...

VERY INTERESTING SETUP IN THE SHORT TERM PERIOD IN ASSOC/W A DYNAMIC
AND POTENTIALLY EXPLOSIVE PATTERN. IF UPSTREAM QPF OVER THE DEEP
SOUTH SATURDAY MORNING IS ACCURATE...THE POTENT UPPER LEVEL WAVE
DIGGING INTO THE SOUTHEAST CONUS AND ASSOCIATED COASTAL CYCLONE WILL
REMAIN PROGRESSIVE OVER THE SOUTHEAST/CAROLINAS...WITH LIGHT
PRECIPITATION AND ANY WINTER WEATHER POTENTIAL OF THE NUISANCE
VARIETY. HOWEVER...IF THE 00Z MODEL GUIDANCE IS UNDER-DONE
(ESPECIALLY WELL UNDER-DONE) WITH PRECIP AMOUNTS IN ADVANCE OF THE
AMPLIFYING UPPER LEVEL TROUGH UPSTREAM OVER THE DEEP SOUTH...WHICH
IS DEFINITELY POSSIBLE IN THIS TYPE OF SETUP...THE ASSOCIATED LATENT
HEAT RELEASE AND RESULTING DOWNSTREAM RIDGING COULD FURTHER AMPLIFY
THE UPPER LEVEL WAVE DIGGING INTO THE SOUTHEAST LATE SAT INTO SAT
NIGHT...RESULTING IN A SLOWER/STRONGER SURFACE CYCLONE THAT IS MUCH
CLOSER TO THE COAST...AND A POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT WINTER WEATHER
ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE CAROLINAS...ESPECIALLY EAST OF HIGHWAY 1.
WILL HAVE TO PAY VERY CLOSE ATTENTION TO UPSTREAM PRECIPITATION OVER
THE DEEP SOUTH SATURDAY MORNING...AND HOW WELL MODEL GUIDANCE IS
VERIFYING W/REGARD TO QPF. THE LATEST 00Z MODEL GUIDANCE HAS TRENDED
WETTER OVERALL SAT AFTERNOON INTO SAT NIGHT...WITH A GOOD 0.25" OF
LIQUID EQUIVALENT OVER CENTRAL NC (ALONG/EAST OF HWY 1) BETWEEN 18Z
SAT AFTERNOON AND 06-12Z SUN IN ASSOC/W STRONG UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS.
FCST SOUNDINGS AND CRITICAL THICKNESSES SUGGEST PRECIP BEGINNING AS
RAIN SAT AFTERNOON...WITH A BOUNDARY LAYER (LOWEST 1-3 KFT)
INITIALLY JUST TOO WARM AND INSUFFICIENTLY DRY TO SUPPORT FROZEN
PTYPES. HOWEVER...AS THE ASSOCIATED SFC CYCLONE BEGINS TO RAPIDLY
DEEPEN OFFSHORE...THE ONSET OF STRONG LOW-LEVEL COLD ADVECTION
/NORTHERLY FLOW/ SATURDAY EVENING IS EXPECTED TO LEAD TO A RAPID
CHANGEOVER FROM RAIN-SNOW BY ~00Z. IF AND HOW MUCH SNOW ACCUMULATION
OCCURS WILL HIGHLY DEPEND ON PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS... WHICH WILL IN
TURN HIGHLY DEPEND ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE SFC CYCLONE AS OUTLINED
ABOVE. GIVEN THE PRECIP AMOUNTS CURRENTLY ANTICIPATED AND THE TIMING
OF THE CHANGEOVER...EXPECT A POTENTIAL FOR UP TO AN INCH OF
ACCUMULATION EAST OF HIGHWAY 1 SATURDAY EVENING/NIGHT... PRIMARILY
FROM THE TRIANGLE EAST TO GOLDSBORO NORTH TO ROANOKE RAPIDS. -VINCENT