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TWC Fan Art / Re: My Artwork
« on: November 10, 2011, 09:07:02 PM »
Impressive! 
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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove
« on: November 09, 2011, 08:42:16 PM »Ever had a forecast for your area go bad?
For example, today in Grand Forks, they were calling for breezy conditions and mostly sunny skies...but this afternoon skies turned quickly overcast and we've had snow showers on and off all day.
Plenty of times. On Christmas Day 2007, the forecast was for sunny skies and temps in the 50s, instead we got a COLD, raw heavy rain with temperatures in the 40s, there was also some sleet and thunder at the onslaught of the event.
One day back in June 2009 there was a forecast for sunny/hot conditions. Around 1pm the SPC issued a PDS Severe T'Storm Watch. This one still baffles me, we saw thunderstorms, but not to warrant the watch a Particularly Dangerous Situation!
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General Discussion / Re: Nationwide EAS test
« on: November 09, 2011, 08:36:09 PM »Failure means that things can be fixed for the next time.
Agreed.
This was just a test to see what would happen with a first ever nationwide EAS activation over all possible media outlets. The NWS was purposely told not to do a routine weekly test today so that everything else besides the weather radio was tested. I even sent out that statement about it for my office a week ago. Obviously, the feedback from this test should hopefully push for significant improvements. The long-term goal is to have a completely digital EAS so that all platforms like cell phones, pagers, and the internet itself along with the traditional outlets of TV, radio, and weather radios can receive these critical alerts.
You would think they would have tried doing this like I don't know maybe 5 or 10 years ago or at least tried doing this the same year of the digital transition.
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TWC Fan Art / Re: Weatherlover's Artwork
« on: November 09, 2011, 06:37:39 PM »
What if....
The XL had of received a graphical update at the same time the IntelliStar did in October 2007?
The XL had of received a graphical update at the same time the IntelliStar did in October 2007?
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General Discussion / Re: Nationwide EAS test
« on: November 09, 2011, 04:16:12 PM »This actually leads me to a question I've always had in mine. Why is it that the analog feed starts EAS tests (weekly or monthly) earlier than on cable? Also the same thing when it comes to programming in general.
This has an easy answer.
Analogue transmission is output on a TV or radio as soon as it is received, because it is transmitted by simple means: modifying the amplitude (AM) or frequency (FM) of the radio signal. This is a real-time process and is reflected by the means of output (TV or radio) by being repeated in real-time.
Digital transmission, however, is in packets of digital information, which are essentially meaningless until they are decoded by the TV or radio. Therefore, what's being broadcast must be encoded from the broadcasting facility into these digital packets, and then must be decoded by the TV or radio as they are received. This process takes a little bit of time, hence the delay as compared to analogue.
Thank you for taking the time to explain.
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General Discussion / Re: Nationwide EAS test
« on: November 09, 2011, 02:22:55 PM »Nationwide EAS test: FAIL!
I monitored three sources: a local broadcast network on cable, a basic cable network, and a local radio station.
The local broadcast network activated the test, but the audio quality was terrible to the point of incomprehensibility. The basic cable network did NOTHING. And the local radio station sounded the warning tone, followed by absolute silence until the end-of-alert tone.
Had this have been a real emergency, the it seems like many people wouldn't have heard it.
Well it was the very first one, There was bound to be a hiccup or two in there.
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General Discussion / Re: Nationwide EAS test
« on: November 09, 2011, 02:21:28 PM »
I noticed the analog TV in our living room started nearly a minute before it did on the cable feed in my room. It also didn't last as long on the cable feed as it did on analog, it lasted about approximately 30 seconds while on the analog TV it lasted about a minute. This actually leads me to a question I've always had in mine. Why is it that the analog feed starts EAS tests (weekly or monthly) earlier than on cable? Also the same thing when it comes to programming in general.
Cable
Analog
Cable
Analog
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General Weather Chat / Re: Farmers Almanac Winter 2012 Prediction
« on: November 09, 2011, 01:22:21 PM »
F.A's Thanksgiving Forecast Region By Region
Northeast
Fair at first, then turning very unsettled, with squalls; hopefully, the adverse weather holds off until after the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade.
Midwest/Great Lakes
Fair at first, then turning very unsettled, with squalls for the Ohio River.
Southeast
Gusty and showery.
North Central
Gusty and showery.
South Central
Squally conditions, followed by gradual clearing.
Northwest
Still very unsettled, then slowly clearing.
Southwest
Very unsettled in the West, then slowly clearing.
http://www.farmersalmanac.com/weather/2011/11/07/whats-mother-nature-cooking-p-for-thanksgiving/
Northeast
Fair at first, then turning very unsettled, with squalls; hopefully, the adverse weather holds off until after the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade.
Midwest/Great Lakes
Fair at first, then turning very unsettled, with squalls for the Ohio River.
Southeast
Gusty and showery.
North Central
Gusty and showery.
South Central
Squally conditions, followed by gradual clearing.
Northwest
Still very unsettled, then slowly clearing.
Southwest
Very unsettled in the West, then slowly clearing.
http://www.farmersalmanac.com/weather/2011/11/07/whats-mother-nature-cooking-p-for-thanksgiving/
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Emulator Videos / Re: Weatherlover's Emulations
« on: November 09, 2011, 08:47:20 AM »
WeatherSTAR4000 Ver. 3 Emulator - Severe T'Storms in Louisiana
J/LL Flavor (modified with extra forecast products to allow the song featured to play in it's entirety)
Song - David Arkenstone - The Island Road
| WeatherSTAR4000 Ver. 3 Emulator - Severe T'Storms in Louisiana | |
J/LL Flavor (modified with extra forecast products to allow the song featured to play in it's entirety)
Song - David Arkenstone - The Island Road
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General Weather Chat / Re: Alaskan Superstorm
« on: November 08, 2011, 11:20:53 PM »A hurricane in Alaska?
Technically no, it's just a powerful surface low pressure system, but it is in every way that counts. It certainly is living up to it's "Superstorm" title.
What Tavores probably meant was Hurricane Force Wind Warning.
Yeah...that's what I meant...hurricane "force" winds...
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General Weather Chat / Re: Alaskan Superstorm
« on: November 08, 2011, 09:45:16 PM »
msnbc wrote up a decent article on the incoming storm - How often do you hear hurricane warnings/blizzard warnings in the same sentence? 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45204152/ns/weather/#.Trnog0Oa--W
http://pafc.arh.noaa.gov/index.php?index=alaska
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45204152/ns/weather/#.Trnog0Oa--W
http://pafc.arh.noaa.gov/index.php?index=alaska
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Local Forecast / Re: TWC Songs you've heard in other places
« on: November 08, 2011, 06:09:57 PM »
I heard "Birdland" by Weather Report play as a montage on an episode of The Simpsons I'm watching.
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The Game Room / Re: Which would you prefer?
« on: November 07, 2011, 10:22:36 PM »
Positivity
Mountains of Unaka by Eddie Reasoner or Rocky Top by Chet Atkins?
Mountains of Unaka by Eddie Reasoner or Rocky Top by Chet Atkins?
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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: IntelliStar 2 Beta Launch
« on: November 07, 2011, 12:00:24 PM »I'm not sure how much different (internally) the IS2 is from the IS, but it doesn't seem like it should be this problematic. To me, it seems like it's very unstable or some of the units are defective.Think of it like Microsoft deciding that instead of building Windows 7 on top of Vista that they would start from scratch and use no code from Vista. The hardware and software are completely new here. Not to mention this is the first product of its kind to do this in HD. With the XL and IS at least there were some similarities. I would imagine the XL and first IS versions were just as problematic
Ah well when you put it that way it makes sense. I didn't think about the fact that the IS might have had similar problems. I didn't notice any myself since I didn't watch TWC much then and plus I confused it with the XL anyway.