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The Game Room / Re: Your feelings in single words
« on: February 15, 2012, 09:06:22 PM »
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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove
« on: February 15, 2012, 08:59:01 PM »
Haven't technically had a cold or flu in a couple of years so far, but I have had my sinuses acting up this week with a runny/stuffy nose and watery eyes. I literally blew my nose so much yesterday I gave myself a headache.
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General Discussion / Re: President Obama Threatening to cut NWS budgets
« on: February 15, 2012, 08:30:44 PM »I doubt this is Obama's plan.. it sounds like something that congress would propose
I would think so because I recall not very long ago late last year (probably after Irene) he said he wanted the NWS budget and federal aid for natural disasters to be expanded.
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Local Forecast / Re: Emergency Feed Sightings
« on: February 15, 2012, 04:34:04 PM »Why did they get rid of Trammell from the emergency feed? It's disappointing and saddeningIt has already been stated multiple times here that TWC wants to move towards a more contemporary sound with their musical selections.
I think the word contemporary is such a vague word for them to use to justify wanting to make a change in their music selection. From my understanding, contemporary music would be "modern" music. Smooth jazz may not be the most popular genre of music, but it would be considered modern music if you ask me. I say this also because I have heard of smooth jazz being called contemporary before.
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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / IntelliStar #22204 Out For 2 1/2 Days Now
« on: February 15, 2012, 12:28:24 PM »
Hello STAR Team,
Since Monday morning the IntelliStar hasn't been on, I've only been seeing the Satellite local Forecast in it's place. Can this be looked into please?
Thank you in advance!
STAR: IntelliStar
ID: 22204
Cable Provider: Comcast
Location: Atlanta
TWC Channel #: 32
Since Monday morning the IntelliStar hasn't been on, I've only been seeing the Satellite local Forecast in it's place. Can this be looked into please?
Thank you in advance!
STAR: IntelliStar
ID: 22204
Cable Provider: Comcast
Location: Atlanta
TWC Channel #: 32
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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove
« on: February 14, 2012, 07:02:54 PM »My dad and I are planning to go to Montreal either by the end of June or early July to see the Montreal International Jazz Festival and the Fireworks Display Competition. Chris Botti, Dave Brubeck, Strunz and Farah, and many other artists are going to be there. I really can't wait, this will be the first jazz festival that I've ever attended. On top of that, Montreal is an amazing place. It is a large city yet it has that small old town feeling. The fireworks display by the St. Lawrence River are surely something to not miss. I am looking forward to the 8 hour road trip, too.I'm planning to stop at either the Finger Lakes or Lake Placid while en route to Montreal
Anyone familiar with any areas? How are the roads? I'd be driving for half of the trip so I'm sure the scenery will be there.
No, I'm afraid not, but it sounds like it will be an interesting trip. I hope you have lots of fun once you go there.
I wish I had the privilege and convenience to go on road trips whenever I want to. Gettin' kinda tired of being in A-Town these days.
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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion
« on: February 14, 2012, 06:35:08 PM »I wouldnt even wait that long, maybe tomorrow report it.It might be premature for me to say this, but it looks like my IntelliStar unit is out, I've been getting the Satellite feed for about the past hour.
A little over 24 hours and it's still out. I'll wait until the end of the week to report it if it's still out then.
Well I didn't want to jump right into reporting it too soon. It seems to be similar to the situation in October 2009 where it was out a couple of days then it came back so that was why I was gonna wait a while before I report it in case they already know and could be fixing or replacing it or something.
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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion
« on: February 14, 2012, 09:17:32 AM »It might be premature for me to say this, but it looks like my IntelliStar unit is out, I've been getting the Satellite feed for about the past hour.
A little over 24 hours and it's still out. I'll wait until the end of the week to report it if it's still out then.
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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion
« on: February 13, 2012, 06:02:21 AM »
It might be premature for me to say this, but it looks like my IntelliStar unit is out, I've been getting the Satellite feed for about the past hour.
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Winter Weather / Re: Winter Storm Thread: 2011-12 Season
« on: February 13, 2012, 05:22:49 AM »Incredible!! The ground here has turned white in a matter of 15 minutes!It's dark outside, so it's hard to see how much is covered, but I do see the white stuff.
Were the flakes big or the snowfall rates heavy? I know I read in a MD issued by the SPC that some areas in TX/OK would see 1/2 inch an hour rates. I wanna get a feel of how things might play out here in my backyard. Also I noticed looking at the radar trends, the precip is moving east hours faster than modeled to. It's already affecting W/TN and Northern MS. I expect it to be in N. GA somewhere in the 2pm -5pm hour.
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Winter Weather / Re: Winter Storm Thread: 2011-12 Season
« on: February 12, 2012, 08:43:26 PM »Definitely a healthy stormthough it beats me why TWC isnt preempting when they have preempted on weaker storms in the past...
TWC's priorities are very screwed up these days. It's no surprise.
From my point of view (correct me if you think I am biased), TWC never highlights the "Deep South" (mainly Texas and Oklahoma) as much as they need to. If this situation were happening in the southeast or northeast, I bet you they would pre-empt and have weather.com in "red" mode.
No, I don't think you're being bias. It's all about what will pull in ratings. I'm sure if it was a blizzard going on in TX/OK instead of just the usual snowstorm they would be preempting right now. Heck, I was surprised they pr emptied for that snowstorm that hit Chicago last month. I guess they only did that because it was the first major winter storm for that area all winter at that point and this has been a boring winter as far as snow is concerned east of the Rockies.
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Winter Weather / Re: Winter Storm Thread: 2011-12 Season
« on: February 12, 2012, 08:25:57 PM »Definitely a healthy storm
TWC's priorities are very screwed up these days. It's no surprise.
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Winter Weather / Re: Winter Storm Thread: 2011-12 Season
« on: February 12, 2012, 03:49:33 PM »
It's just an estimate, I can't confirm whether they have accumulated over an inch yet.
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Winter Weather / Re: Winter Storm Thread: 2011-12 Season
« on: February 12, 2012, 01:39:50 PM »Nice Job Tavores! I honestly had no idea what this system was doing, thanks for the explainer map!
Thank you, it's a very tricky forecast. A lot of bust potential in my snowfall map if even one thing goes wrong or off track especially in the pink area since this is where I was the most bullish on wintry weather. This area is the most frustrating for me to have much confidence in because it relies heavily on timing of the precip, how fast the warm air advection kicks in, and how fast the HP that settles into E TN/W NC moves out to sea. I'm the most confident on the best areas to see accumulating snow will be from Memphis to Nashville north.
I'm watching the radar trends in TX and the Southern stream isn't looking half bad. Let's take San Angelo, TX for example, a band of heavy precip is heading right for them from the south. Current obs show that San Angelo is only 34 degrees and the dewpoint is still in the teens! It won't take take very long for wetbulbing/evaporational cooling to occur here and bring moderate to possibly heavy snow. I wouldn't be surprised to hear isolated reports of thundersnow as well.
Something else that's interesting to note about San Angelo, earlier this morning the NWS forecast was only calling for rain/sleet. As of the 1pm hour they are now calling for snow/sleet and 1-2 inches! They weren't forecasting any snow accumulations this morning so this is a last minute change. That's what I'm concerned with for areas eastward that everything that happens will have to be figured out in a now-casting mode rather than relying on models short or long term.
RADAR IS TIME SENSITIVE
