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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: September 02, 2011, 02:12:49 PM »

The Big Picture segment they do now kinda reminds me of the Weather Stories segment they used to do right before the weekly planner back during the live by it era.

EDIT: Did they redo the Satellite LDL? It looks like the blue is darker and the templates that display the weather info look black. It looks much better this way imo.

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Hurricane Central / Re: Tropical Storm Lee

« on: September 02, 2011, 01:39:14 PM »

THREAD TITLE CHANGE

We have Lee 

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Hurricane Central / Re: Tropical Depression 13

« on: September 02, 2011, 07:48:38 AM »

The setup is different, but this is reminding me of the Great Flood of 2009 in North Georgia. We saw rainfall totals like this then, but I don't think it'll be as severe since it'll be stretched out over time rather than one day.

Forecast Discussion for my CWA

.LONG TERM /SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY/...
ALL EMPHASIS ON THE TROPICAL SYSTEM DEVELOPING OUT OVER THE GULF.
WITH TROPICAL MOISTURE INTERACTING WITH THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY
PROGGD TO SLIP INTO NORTH GEORGIA SUNDAY NIGHT/MONDAY...THEN INTO
CENTRAL GEORGIA MONDAY NIGHT...THEN MEANDER SOMEWHERE ACROSS SOUTH
GEORGIA FOR THE REST OF THE PERIOD...LOOKING FOR GOOD RAIN CHANCES
FOR MUCH OF THE PERIOD. EXTENDED PROGS SIMILAR WITH HEAVY RAIN
BEING A REAL POSSIBILITY OVER OUR AREA WITH THIS SYSTEM. GFS MOST
AGGRESSIVE WITH RAINFALL TOTALS OF 5 INCHES OR BETTER OVER
PORTIONS OF NORTH GEORGIA BY EARLY TUESDAY...THEN ANOTHER INCH OR
TWO POSSIBLE BY DAYS END. WITH THESE AMOUNTS POSSIBLE WILL
CONTINUE ISSUANCE OF EXCESSIVE RAINFALL/HYDROLOGIC OUTLOOK FOR
NOW...BUT IF LATER RUNS SUPPORT IT...A FLOOD WATCH MAY BE NEEDED
BY SUNDAY. STAY TUNED.

http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=FFC&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1

A Flood Watch, if only I could remember a time we were under one....

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: September 02, 2011, 12:11:42 AM »

While we are on the subject of college, I am going to take the time to be a little more "open" about myself. I don't want this to be extremely awkward, but I realize that I have never revealed my age or "level" in education. There is no good reason for this, but since I have reached a new stage in my life, I would like to share it with you all.

I just started college this year. I am studying meteorology at the University of Oklahoma and am, so far, very excited about it. For those of you who may not know, The National Weather Center is located on the campus, and it is both school-operated and government-operated. I believe Patrick visited there sometime earlier this year, if I remember correctly. Therefore, because of the location of The National Weather Center on campus, this university has a very good meteorology and research department. In addition, from looking at and hearing about past weather events, Norman gets all kinds of weather: tornadoes in the spring (something they specialize in), excessive heat in the summer, and winter storms in the winter.

I, too, would like to wish the best of luck for those of you who are also in their first year of college.

Best of luck on your first year of college. When I was in middle school meteorology was the field I wanted to study in, but high school quickly did a 180 on that.  I still love math and science, but they hated me.

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Hurricane Central / Re: Hurricane Katia

« on: September 01, 2011, 11:55:44 PM »

Preliminary track, it's further west than I was thinking yesterday.

This track looks at lot like Hurricane Earl's from last year. IIRC, Earl didn't affect the East Coast too greatly, so hopefully Katia will miss the U.S. as the Northeast certainly does not need any more rain at the moment.

It is mostly based off of that track.

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Hurricane Central / Re: Hurricane Katia

« on: September 01, 2011, 11:37:52 PM »

Preliminary track, it's further west than I was thinking yesterday.

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Hurricane Central / Re: Tropical Depression 13

« on: September 01, 2011, 09:24:29 PM »

Gov. declares State of Emergency for Louisiana

http://www.wdsu.com/weather/29054910/detail.html

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Hurricane Central / Re: TD-13 (possible-to-be Lee)

« on: September 01, 2011, 08:14:10 PM »

Right now, the track has TD 13 heading northeast. Although the track is very uncertain at this point, I really wish it would head northwest to Texas. We desparately need the rain!

It screws TX unfortunately, but at least it would still be bringing drought relief to other areas in the South so it's not a total loss or waste of rainfall.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: September 01, 2011, 06:24:24 PM »

Wow, they really seem to be hyping this thing. Guess it's so they can brag about being the "Hurricane Authority." I am surprised when you said the LDL is missing. Think it'd be red by now.

I believe because of the flood potential most likely, Some models have New Orleans seeing 10-20 inches of rain because of how slow the tropical system moves. HPC has NO seeing nearly 20 inches within the next 5 days. If this becomes "Lee" it'll be pulling an "Allison" only in LA instead of TX this time. I think their biggest concern is levees could fail again. That's an enormous amount of rain for them to swallow at one time.

HPC

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Hurricane Central / Re: Hurricane Central 2011

« on: September 01, 2011, 03:58:32 PM »

"Lee" or "Maria" should be here by the weekend from the way it appears to be now.

1. A BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE LOCATED A COUPLE HUNDRED MILES SOUTH OF
THE LOUISIANA COAST IS PRODUCING A LARGE AREA OF CLOUDINESS...
THUNDERSTORMS...AND GUSTY WINDS OVER THE EASTERN AND CENTRAL GULF
OF MEXICO.  UPPER-LEVEL WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BECOME MORE CONDUCIVE
FOR DEVELOPMENT...AND THIS SYSTEM COULD BECOME A TROPICAL
DEPRESSION DURING THE NEXT DAY OR SO.  A NOAA HURRICANE HUNTER
AIRCRAFT IS SCHEDULED TO INVESTIGATE THE AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON.
THIS SYSTEM HAS A HIGH CHANCE...80 PERCENT...OF BECOMING A TROPICAL
CYCLONE DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS AS IT MOVES SLOWLY NORTHWESTWARD.
INTERESTS ALONG THE ENTIRE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO COAST SHOULD
MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF THIS DISTURBANCE.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo/gtwo_atl_sub.shtml?area1#contents

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Hurricane Central / Re: Hurricane Katia

« on: August 31, 2011, 11:16:13 PM »

Something of interest to me, the track bend slightly west or WNW again by Monday, delaying the N turn. Gonna be a close call for Bermuda.

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Emulator Videos / Re: Weatherlover's Emulations

« on: August 31, 2011, 05:51:00 PM »

IntelliSTAR Emulation - August 31, 2011

August Update
Redid the template for the 8 city current conditions
Aligned the titlebars to be the same length of the templates
Finished the LDL

Song: Ryan Farish - Oceans of Blue (Same cut used in the August 2004 Playlist.)

IntelliSTAR Emulation - August 31, 2011

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: August 30, 2011, 11:33:03 PM »

Found this on TVnewser earlier about The Weather Channel ratings for Hurricane Irene. Thought I'd share.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/weekend-ratings-weather-channel-cable-news-see-massive-ratings-bumps-as-irene-made-landfall_b83103

Meh, it's not too out of the ordinary when they do wall to wall coverage on events like this, they had similar ratings during the April 27th Tornado Outbreak and probably during the Joplin MO tornado too. It's sorta expected that's why they kept showing that promo during Hurricane Irene about how it's good to have millions of friends. 

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Local Forecast / Re: Lack of Local Forecast for Non-Intellistar systems

« on: August 30, 2011, 06:21:53 PM »

You're right.

I wonder if TWC even makes the XL (or older) available to cable companies that want them.  I hope that's not the case, and that only cable companies that still have an older Star are simply allowed to keep using them.

Maybe the only exception to the retirement rule that I can think of would be a very small cable company, such as a college dorm network or an apartment complex's private system if they choose to have a Star (such things do happen).  But, otherwise, I think commercial networks should definitely be looking to upgrade.  They're doing their customers a disservice.

Financially, I would agree they should be retired. IIRC, the IntelliStar is the cheapest STAR of them all and I think the XL is the most expensive of all of them, but the thing is most of the 4000's, Jrs, and XL's are serving small areas while the IntelliStar is intended to serve large urbanized areas. I do feel TWC should at least leave the LDL on for these older STARs on air to provide some sort of weather information in cases like Hurricane Irene and they chose not to show local forecasts, I don't see what's so difficult about showing text on screen live on air for the sake of their small audience until they reach a day that they chose not to support the older STARs anymore.

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Hurricane Central / Re: Tropical Storm Katia

« on: August 30, 2011, 05:47:43 PM »

There's an official pronunciation guide on NHC's website for all Atlantic storm names in our current six-year cycle.  It's buried on their site as a PDF, so I'm linking it directly here for everyone:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/aboutnames_pronounce_atlc.pdf

It's looking really good for this storm to become our second hurricane of the Atlantic season, and it could become our second major hurricane as well.  Fortunately, we have a lot of time to watch and see if it will threaten us.

Thanks, interestingly enough out of all the names from 2011-2016 listed there, only Katia was the one I had trouble with.

Wouldn't be surprised if Katia is a hurricane by as early the 8 or 11am advisory tomorrow.