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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: August 27, 2011, 11:58:59 PM »

The LDL is blue now

This happened on more than one occasion, I saw it blue several hours before this, but when they returned from a break it was red again. I don't remember what time during the day this was though.

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Hurricane Central / Re: Hurricane Irene

« on: August 27, 2011, 09:52:22 PM »

2 million in the dark in Virginia, adding in the other outages on the East Coast, I would estimate were from 3.0 - 3.5 million.

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Hurricane Central / Re: Hurricane Central 2011

« on: August 27, 2011, 08:51:29 PM »

New large wave just moved off of Africa. Looks like it has a decent chance of development over the next several days.

I don't know about wind shear, but dry air doesn't look to be an issue. Very little of it now than it has been this summer, so if shear is light I don't see anything getting in it's way. It looks healthy already.

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Hurricane Central / Re: Hurricane Irene

« on: August 27, 2011, 04:52:28 PM »

Here's the picture from NC of the flooding reaching near the roof of a beachhouse I mentioned on the last page.

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Hurricane Central / Re: Hurricane Irene

« on: August 27, 2011, 03:37:38 PM »

Even though we were due to have one hit the United States sooner or later, I hope you all realize how much worse this situation could have been.  What if this had occurred one week later during Labor Day weekend when a lot of people would be out traveling?  What if it was still a Category 3 hurricane or higher heading northward along the coast?  We've really dodged a major bullet here when you think about it.

That's for sure. I hate to say this situation of Irene now is a "good" one (because a hurricane hitting the US is obviously not), but we were originally expecting a CAT 3 to hit. I really am starting to question how bad this will be. Are people going overboard in talking about the possible effects, or not?

The biggest thing everyone should be focusing on is the flooding. Already areas of E. NC picking up 12-15 inches of rain and still raining in some of those areas. I've seen a picture of flood waters already close to the roof of a house. When I find it again, I'll post it here. The flooding makes me think of TS Allison from 2001. She's crawling to move NE.

Here's a picture posted on another forum from New Bern, NC.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: August 27, 2011, 12:59:46 PM »

Did anybody see those IDIOTS that drove up waving on air during Eric's live shot? He got really pissed off about that saying how stupid they were being for being out in the storm.

Is that shot posted on weather.com? One segment of him reporting is on weather.com, and it makes me just as mad as he is to see these idiots driving around during the storm, boarding up during the storm, and supposedly sitting outside watching the storm?!?! Seriously, how stupid can some people be?

I was able to record it, that's how I saw it. Not even an hour ago he said how disheartened he is to see so much traffic.

Here's a clip of that btw. I was gonna post an attachment of that part only, but it was taking awfully long time to attach. (skip to around 1:40)

Hurricane Irene - MidAtlantic/Northeast Coverage 2

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Hurricane Central / Re: Hurricane Irene

« on: August 27, 2011, 12:39:30 PM »

What an incredible hurricane, A Cat 1 and still plowing through strong.
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t2/flash-vis.html

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: August 27, 2011, 12:29:43 PM »

For those complaining about the LF not airing, why dont you guys even realize that this is a catastrophic situation going on in an area that hasnt seen conditions like this since 2003? At least give credit for TWC in preempting their long form all week and give them credit for doing their best on covering Irene.. its not the end of the world that you cannot get your local forecast on TV for petes sake...

  Just like I said in the general TWC discussion thread, viewers must not be complaining much or they would have gone back to showing the traditional local forecast by now.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: August 27, 2011, 12:20:35 PM »

And as far as the commercials, I don't think TWC will ever cut them down. It would be nice to go straight from live coverage to the traditional LF, but I think the commercials have to stay.

If NYC starts to seriously flood, they'll preempt commercials.

Who we've had so far:
6-7?: Abrams, Roker, Bettes
7-12: Bettes, Carfagno, Knabb
right now: Santos, LaRosa, Parker, Knabb

Stephanie Abrams, Adam Berg and Jim Cantore made occasional live reports during the 7am -12pm hours also.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: August 27, 2011, 11:51:13 AM »

Did anybody see those IDIOTS that drove up waving on air during Eric's live shot? He got really pissed off about that saying how stupid they were being for being out in the storm.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: August 27, 2011, 09:48:03 AM »

What are they calling this program?  At 6 they had a "special weekend WUWA".

I assume it's just Weekend View as usual.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: August 27, 2011, 09:01:14 AM »

To me this coverage seems lacking. Do you notice that not one TWC OCM is going to be at the landfall of the storm? We are used to seeing Jim, Mike and Steph bracing hurricane force winds and bringing live coverage as the storm hits. I am unsure why TWC decided to report briefly on the OBX about the preparations then move everyone north before the storm hit. I guess they wanted their high ranking OCMs in the metropolitan areas of the NE to increase viewership

What are you talking about? Jeff Morrow and Mike Sidel have been in NC the whole time they arrived there and haven't been moved. In fact they have been on this morning. If you ever watched TWC do hurricane coverage in the past, they obviously have a system of where and when you see certain OCMs, Jeff and Mike (occasional reports from Steph and Al) should on during the morning hours while Eric, Jim, and Adam would appear during the afternoon and evening hours.

As far as the coverage lacking and the debate over the elimination of the traditional local forecast, not to defend TWC, but I guess after three years they have gotten rusty. Eventhough I would like to see the traditional local forecast, whether it's the entire hour or only at 28/58 past the hour, it doesn't bother me that I'm not because I'm not watching TWC to see that, I'm watching to see their coverage as the other 100+ million viewers are and many of those viewers are most likely not seeing or expecting any turbulent weather from Irene or anything other disturbances from cold fronts, outflow boundaries, ULL's, etc. so they have not reason to really complain to TWC about not seeing a LF. As Eric mentioned they are just "experimenting" with something new to do during Hurricane coverage as we all know TWC loves to experiment. I'm assuming this experiment is going well or else enough viewers would have complained and we would be seeing the traditional local forecast again by now.

Another "experiment" you would think they would have tried would be to eliminate or reduce commercials and right after finishing a segment of their coverage every let's say 6-8 minutes (I'm not sue how long average wise they are) ,they would cue right to the local forecast whether it's 1 minute, 1 min. 30 seconds, or 2 minutes and cue immediately back to the live coverage while still showing the local forecast squeezeback, making it the best of two worlds.

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Hurricane Central / Re: Hurricane Irene

« on: August 27, 2011, 08:23:08 AM »

Irene has been downgraded to a category 1 hurricane with winds of 90 mph.  One wonders how much strength it will maintain after crossing over far eastern North Carolina.  Certainly, rain and storm surge will remain a threat, especially considering the large size of the hurricane.

As you said, storm surge and flooding rains is what will be the problem for the NE, wind was expected to not be a major factor up there except to aid in bringing down trees in oversaturated areas. I'm not sure what the possibility of this happening right now, but there was a possibility going by some of the models with the incoming trough sitting out to the west that the jet-streak winds from that would aid in holding Irene together and maybe even restrengthen her a tad over land which is why said models such as the EURO and GFS were restrengthening her over NYC/LI.

Also as of 7:30am EDT, Hurricane Irene made landfall in Cape Lookout, NC.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: August 26, 2011, 11:05:45 PM »

I don't know if this happened the previous hour or not because I wasn't watching, but at 10:59pm I saw the station ID. I thought that was kinda odd to show up randomly.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: August 26, 2011, 09:49:49 PM »

I've been meaning to ask this for the longest time, but are they ever going to fix that pesky glitch of the Satellite LDL being underneath the IntelliStar LDL?

What do you mean?

I assume this:



Notice that you can see a few pixels of the national LDL above the local LDL.

Yes, that's what I mean.