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TWC Fan Art / Re: Weatherlover's Artwork
« on: January 13, 2011, 07:47:07 AM »
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TWC Fan Art / Re: Weatherlover's Artwork
« on: January 12, 2011, 11:55:27 PM »
Since my old computer kicked the bucket on me last month, I never got the chance to back up the file I used to make my IS2 self emulation, so once again I'm starting from scratch, but I'm going to be taking it step by step like before. I kept the basic design of the template, but since the real IS2 doesn't have a weather background, I went with a dark background. These are some concepts I came up with. This was a design that's always has been in my mind, but I couldn't figure out how to put it together until tonight.
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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove
« on: January 12, 2011, 09:53:33 AM »Normally I don't post things like this but this was just too epic.
Blooper: Stephanie Abrams Talks Dirty
Good grief, Stephanie.Fronts don't unload anything as they're simply boundaries. Next time you use the "in and out" phrase, just stop and don't say anything further to back up your point. We all get it!
Thanks for sharing this moment, Martin.
Oh Steph, you and your wacky terminologies! I'm sorry Steph, but I personally don't want any fronts of any kind to "unload" on me. That's not the way I like it. 
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Winter Weather / Re: Possible Winter Storm in the south Sunday and Monday
« on: January 12, 2011, 12:01:45 AM »
Ice skating on Downtown Atlanta streets
| Man ice skates down Atlanta street | |
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General Weather Chat / Re: What's the weather in your area?
« on: January 11, 2011, 12:45:22 PM »
32° light snow/mist
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Winter Weather / Re: Northeastern Snowblitz 2011
« on: January 11, 2011, 10:42:57 AM »A repeat of December 26 is possible as there is a chance that blizzard watches and warnings could be posted including New York City and coastal southern New England.
This is nowhere near the Dec26 storm honestly. Blizzard warnings might be possible for some MA areas but thats pushing it I think.
I am going with the 0z GFS.
For what it's worth, the NAM did a better job with the QPF than the GFS did here in the SE with the southern stream low.
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General Weather Chat / Re: Watch/Warning Thread
« on: January 10, 2011, 08:51:58 PM »
The past 24 hours practically half of the country was under some kind of advisory, amazing!
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Winter Weather / Re: Possible Winter Storm in the south Sunday and Monday
« on: January 10, 2011, 03:41:25 PM »In my area, at least where I live, they blew it way out of proportion. We were supposed to get 4-8 inches of snow in my area and we didn't even get enough to cover the whole ground. They also started saying how the ice storm threat was increasing for my area and our power never went out. They made it sound like it was going to be the end of the world. It was uncalled for. They got me worried and all upset for no reason.
As far as the ice, I think it's better to be safe than sorry even if it doesn't work out the way it was forecasted to. Any amount of ice is dangerous period.
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Winter Weather / Re: Possible Winter Storm in the south Sunday and Monday
« on: January 09, 2011, 11:41:52 PM »From an outsider's perspective, and considering I've spent my whole life in wintry climates, I find it amazing how quickly the South gets paralyzed due to an amount of snow that wouldn't even register in the North. Of course, I know that the South isn't used to such snowfall and the infrastructure isn't designed to handle it, but still... it's always struck me as somewhat strange.
Well to be fair, the snow came at least 4 hours earlier and local mets around here started downplaying how much snow we would get suggesting more ice. The heavy snow came right before 8pm, it was forecasted to be near midnight because the air was so dry. To add to that there were isolated reports of thundersnow and the snowall rates were 2-3 inches an hour. That's enough to paralyze any region if you're caught off guard. Had there been 35mph winds, this technically would have been blizzard conditions. That was the problem last month when we had ice, it came during evening rush hour instead of at 9pm as the NWS had forecasted, no snow plows were out and there were hundreds of car accidents.
@Andy - That was around 10pm tonight. I think it caught a lot of people off guard, I think most of those drivers wouldn't have been out there had they known it was coming so early.
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Winter Weather / Re: Possible Winter Storm in the south Sunday and Monday
« on: January 09, 2011, 10:49:10 PM »
Talk about insane!
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Winter Weather / Re: Possible Winter Storm in the south Sunday and Monday
« on: January 09, 2011, 09:34:44 PM »
We got hit by a good snowband here snowfall rates were of 1-2 inches an hour. TWC is reporting 2 inches at the airport. Visibility is down near a quarter mile, Winds have picked up, and best of all NO SCHOOL! Extended weekend! 
Looks like another snowband is getting ready to move in from the SW in AL. Basically if you see how it looks where Mike Sidel is in Grenda, MS that's how it is here now.
http://www.motoweatherman.com/radarFFC_loop/default.php
EDIT: Alex, it's getting rough in Birmingham, I heard reports of thundersnow there.
Looks like another snowband is getting ready to move in from the SW in AL. Basically if you see how it looks where Mike Sidel is in Grenda, MS that's how it is here now.http://www.motoweatherman.com/radarFFC_loop/default.php
EDIT: Alex, it's getting rough in Birmingham, I heard reports of thundersnow there.
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Winter Weather / Re: Possible Winter Storm in the south Sunday and Monday
« on: January 09, 2011, 08:05:01 PM »
It finally started snowing in Atlanta! Within 5 minutes cars and the street have started to glaze over sleet is also mixing in. Our ABC affiliate is doing 30 minute updates and the met there Brad Nitz said reports of snow coating the ground on the southside! It's really coming down too. 
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Winter Weather / Re: Possible Winter Storm in the south Sunday and Monday
« on: January 09, 2011, 07:26:22 PM »
SWS for Heavy Sleet in Atlanta and surrounding suburbs.
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Special Weather Statement
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
702 PM EST SUN JAN 9 2011
GAZ030>035-037-041>050-052>061-066>068-070>073-078-100130-
702 PM EST SUN JAN 9 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MODERATE SLEET ACROSS
HARRIS...JONES...BALDWIN...PIKE...MONROE...LAMAR...TROUP...
MERIWETHER...SPALDING...HEARD...BUTTS...HANCOCK...PUTNAM...COWETA...
JASPER...FAYETTE...HENRY...CLAYTON...NEWTON...GREENE...
ROCKDALE...DOUGLAS...MORGAN...CARROLL...HARALSON...WALTON...DEKALB...
OCONEE...PAULDING...POLK. ..COBB...BARROW...GWINNETT AND FULTON
COUNTIES UNTIL 830 PM EST...
AT 651 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LARGE AREA OF MODERATE TO OCCASIONALLY BRIEFLY HEAVY SLEET SPREADING
NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH ACROSS CENTRAL AND INTO NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA.
THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS ACTIVITY AT 651 PM EXTENDED FROM ROME...TO
ATLANTA...TO GREENSBORO.TEMPERATURES ARE JUST ABOVE FREEZING IN THESE AREAS...BUT WILL FALL
TO OR SLIGHTLY BELOW FREEZING SHORTLY AFTER THE ONSET OF
PRECIPITATION. ROADS MAY QUICKLY BECOME ICE COVERED AND HAZARDOUS IN
AREAS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SLEET.
A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THIS ENTIRE AREA
THROUGH MONDAY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO
AND TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS WINTER STORM.
$$
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Winter Weather / Re: Possible Winter Storm in the south Sunday and Monday
« on: January 09, 2011, 10:18:50 AM »
SPC comfirms thundersnow possibility
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SPC AC 091237
DAY 1 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0637 AM CST SUN JAN 09 2011
VALID 091300Z - 101200Z
...NO SVR TSTM AREAS FORECAST...
...GULF COAST STATES THROUGH TONIGHT...
A SHORTWAVE TROUGH OVER THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY WILL EJECT NEWD
TO THE LOWER MS VALLEY AND LOSE AMPLITUDE...AS AN UPSTREAM LOW OVER
THE NRN INTERMOUNTAIN WEST DIGS ESEWD. A SURFACE LOW JUST OFF THE
MIDDLE TX COAST AND AN ASSOCIATED BOWING MCS BOTH APPEAR TO HAVE
PASSED PEAK. THE LOW SHOULD CONTINUE TO SLOWLY WEAKEN DURING THE
DAY AND INTO TONIGHT AS THE MIDLEVEL TROUGH NO LONGER PHASES WITH
THE COASTAL FRONT. THE SEVERE STORM THREAT IS ENDING ALONG THE TX
COAST...BUT THERE WILL BE A SMALL WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY FOR DAMAGING
GUSTS AND EMBEDDED ROTATING STORMS ALONG THE SE LA COAST LATER THIS
AFTERNOON/EVENING WITH CLOSEST APPROACH OF THE LOW AND SURFACE WARM
SECTOR. FARTHER INLAND...WEAK MIDLEVEL INSTABILITY ATOP A VERY
STRONG WAA REGIME COULD SUPPORT A FEW ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH
MIXED WINTER PRECIPITATION TONIGHT AS FAR N AS THE I-20 CORRIDOR
FROM MS INTO GA.
..THOMPSON/HURLBUT.. 01/09/2011
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General Weather Chat / Re: What's the weather in your area?
« on: January 09, 2011, 10:13:53 AM »
26° mostly cloudy (NWS observation) WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7PM TONIGHT UNTIL 7PM MONDAY NIGHT We bottomed out at a low of 18° this morning.